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Series
Charity Commission: Registered Charity Case Files
Catalogue reference: CHAR 19
What's it about?
CHAR 19
This series contains registered case files relating to charities which were required to be entered on the public register, kept under section 4 of the Charities Act 1960. Some of these files contain material dating from 1853 which relate to...
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 19
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charity Commission: Registered Charity Case Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1865-2008
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered case files relating to charities which were required to be entered on the public register, kept under section 4 of the Charities Act 1960. Some of these files contain material dating from 1853 which relate to established organisations, and which have been separated from files transferred into CHAR 7.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arranged in order of registered charity number.
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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)
- 433 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2018 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
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1961 to 1995
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Files relating to some high profile charities, and which were the subject of discussion by the Board of Charity Comissioners or identified in the Commissioners' Annual Report to the Home Office as being of particular interest.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15860/
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: Registered Charity Case Files
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