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Where a branch charity of a national charity wishes to replace its governing document with its parent’s Charity Commission approved governing document, is prior Charity Commission approval required?

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This Q&A is limited to cover changes to the Governance documents of an Unincorporated Charity.

Every Charity must have purposes that are exclusively charitable in law. The purposes of a charity will usually be defined by what its governing document says about what it is set up to do and how its funds are to be used if it is wound up.

Section 275 of the Charities Act 2011 (CA 2011) allows trustees to change some or all of the purposes of their charity by resolution. Not only does it allow trustees to change

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