# Charity Commission launches accounts templates to help small charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/11/charity-commission-launches-accounts-templates-help-small-charities/
- Published: 2017-04-11T08:38:44+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Charity Commission has launched an account templates pack designed to help
trustees of charities with an income of under £500,000 to prepare their accounts.**

The [Charity Commission](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/charity-commission)
has partnered with [Companies House](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house)
to create [the templates](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/accruals-accounts-pack-cc17-sorp-frs-102-for-charitable-companies)
to reflect the regulatory requirements, current guidance and best practice.

The templates join two other sets of accounts templates for charities provided by
the Commission: templates for non-company charities with incomes of less than £500,000
and Trustees’ annual report templates, which are available on gov.uk.

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Paula Sussex, chief executive, Charity Commission said:

> “Our renewed focus on enablement is all about supporting trustees and charities
> to get it right first time. Working closely with our colleagues at Companies House
> we have ensured that our templates contain the right information to meet the regulatory
> requirements.
> “The public have told us that they expect charities to be able to
> accurately account for the funds that donors give. This toolkit for charities 
> will enable smaller charitable companies to submit accounts that meet the high
> standards that the public expect.”

Last year, the Charity Commission issued a reminder to charities that [submitting accounts was a legal obligation](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/01/19/no-excuse-late-accounts-filing-says-charity-commission/),
with late filing was a criminal offence. The warning came as the Commission launched
a new phase of its inquiry into a number of charities that had failed to file accounts
for two consecutive years.

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