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ALB, Arm’s Length Bodies, Public Bodies, Quangos, Public Servants, Civil Servants

The Charity Commission for England and Wales (CCEW)

The Charity Commission for England and Wales is a Non-Ministerial Department sponsored by Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Charity Commission is the registrar and regulator of charities in England and Wales. It has a number of operational functions mandated by the Charities Act 2011. This includes assessing applications to register a new charity to ensure they meet legal requirements, receiving annual accounts and information for charities, approving certain actions by charities where they might be risks without Charity Commission assessment and providing advice and guidance to charities and - where necessary - undertaking compliance steps to uncover and prevent wrongdoing and ensure trustees and charities are meeting their legal responsibilities. Primary service users are charity trustees (on whom the legal responsibilities fall) but also the wider public, on whose behalf the Charity Commission regulates charities.

Regional Remit

CCEW operates in England and Wales. Their headquarters are located in North West England.


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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025

2023/24 Chair's Name

Orlando Fraser KC

Established

1853

Ombudsman

Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman

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Finances

This figure provides an overview of The Charity Commission for England and Wales’s income and expenditure during the 2023/24 financial year.

Some ALBs, such as those with Trading Fund status, do not classify their spending data by RDEL, CDEL, and AME and will report £0 for these values.
For more information regarding RDEL, CDEL and AME, please see our analysis of ALB Spending.

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Staffing

The figure below shows the types of staff employed by The Charity Commission for England and Wales on 31 March 2024.


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Arms Length Bodies

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