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Series
Home Office: Charities (CHA, CTS and CHC Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 279
What's it about?
HO 279
Files from the Home Office CHA, CTS and CHC (Charities) series. The files relate to Home Office involvement in the appointment of Charity Commissioners, the introduction of legislation, and the control and monitoring of all charitable...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 279
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Charities (CHA, CTS and CHC Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the Home Office CHA, CTS and CHC (Charities) series.
The files relate to Home Office involvement in the appointment of Charity Commissioners, the introduction of legislation, and the control and monitoring of all charitable organisations. As well as these functions, the Home Office also has the task of advising and providing guidance for individual charities, and the Charity Commission itself.
The distinction between the CHA and CTS series is that the CTS series was used for registering papers relating to house-to-house collections, and the CHA series was used for all other papers relating to charities.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The papers in this series are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number. Papers in the CHA series are placed before those in CTS. The inclusion of a date preceding a file number (as in (1960)1/4/1) indicates that the year in which the file was created was included in the file reference number. Thus the full departmental reference of a file listed as CHA (1960) 1/4/1 would be CHA/60 1/4/1.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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CHA, CTS and CHC symbol file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Home Office, 1782-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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176 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 1986 Home Office
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9143/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
1,719,919 records
Within the department: HO
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Home Office: Charities (CHA, CTS and CHC Symbol Series) Files
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