# Charity Commission redevelops its website

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/07/09/charity-commission-redevelops-its-website/
- Published: 2007-07-09T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Charity Commission has redesigned and redeveloped its website to make it “easier
and quicker for charities to meet their obligations.”
The Commission says that the
new site should make it “quicker and easier” for charity trustees to update their
charity’s information online, send accounts and file their annual returns.

The site feature a new Google-based search tool and “a simpler structure”, making
the Commission’s advice and guidance more accessible.

Other features of the redesigned website include:

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* easy access direct from the homepage to a searchable register of charities, providing
the public with details of a charity’s accounts, its trustees and what it’s set 
up to do.

* the first annual return – AR07 – and for smaller charities, the Annual Update,
specifically designed to be completed online.

* a secure facility for charity trustees to report serious incidents to the Commission

* ‘Browsealoud’ – a feature that reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult
to read online

Andrew Hind, Chief Executive of the Charity Commission said: “Our new website makes
the most of the benefits of interactive technology, improving the quality of the
information charities give us, strengthening the relevance of advice we give them,
and providing the general public with a valuable window on the work of the charitable
sector.”

The site is certainly popular, but the Commission still uses the almost meaningless
term ‘hits’ to describe its traffic, reporting that there were “over 39 million 
hits on the website in the last year”.

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