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Series
Charity Commission: Schemes and Orders
Catalogue reference: CHAR 25
What's it about?
CHAR 25
This series contains schemes and orders issued by the Charity Commission. The schemes contain information relating to the administration and management of charities. The orders give authority to charities for such actions as trustee remuneration,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CHAR 25
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charity Commission: Schemes and Orders
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1853-2004
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains schemes and orders issued by the Charity Commission. The schemes contain information relating to the administration and management of charities. The orders give authority to charities for such actions as trustee remuneration, borrowing or property transactions.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Records are arranged in chronological order.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Charity Commission, 1853-1853
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1117 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2016 Charity Commission
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Charities
- Pay and pensions
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- These records have been selected as they show how the Charity Commission's work and authority has developed in relation to the regulation of charities.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14885871/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
8,539 records
Within the department: CHAR
Records of the Charity Commissioners and Charity Commission
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Charity Commission: Schemes and Orders
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