Charity Commission redevelops its website
Howard Lake | 9 July 2007 | News
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.
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Other features of the redesigned website include:
* 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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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.