The Charity Commission have recently issued some accounting templates for Charitable Companies whose income is less than £500k.

There are already templates in place for small unincorporated charities but these new ones contained in Charity Commission Booklet CC17, not only comply with the latest Charity SORP 2015 (FRS102) but have been issued in agreement with Companies House which hopefully will stop them being rejected by Companies House as happens all too often.

Those of you who have accounts prepared by accountants without the aid of templates can of course continue to do so.

The section on Trustees Reports contains some useful guidelines which you may find of help in drafting your own Trustees Report.

As I have commented previously, the Trustees Report is in my opinion the most important document that your chatity produces each year as it is your chance to tell your story both to beneficiaries and potential funders.