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Charity Services › Charity

Charities Aid Foundation
CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) is an international non-governmental organisation which provides specialist financial services to other charities and their supporters.

Charity Business
Charity Business has been created from within the charity sector to provide financial shared services solutions for voluntary organisations. A preferred supplier of NCVO for financial outsourcing and consultancy solutions, Charity Business offers a flexible and dedicated finance team reducing the cost of running your finance function whilst helping you release valuable time to support charitable activities. For further information contact Susan Gordon on 01793 554204.

Charity Commission
The Charity Commission is established by law as the regulator and registrar for charities in England and Wales. They are responsible for providing regulation of charities in order to increase charities’ effectiveness and public confidence and trust.

Charity Law Association
The Charity Law Association was established with the aim of enabling those who advise on or use charity law to meet together, to exchange ideas and intelligence and to use their experience and expertise for the benefit of the charity sector.

European Association for Planned Giving
The European Association for Planned Giving (EAPG) is a unique cross-border network that brings together charities, philanthropy advisers and wealth managers and raises awareness of current legal, tax and donor-related topics affecting charitable giving.

WCVA
The WCVA interactive site offers a wealth of information for and about the voluntary sector in Wales.

Commercial Law Services › Corporate & Commercial

Business Link
Business Link provides the information, advice and support you need to start, maintain and grow a business

Business West
Business West advises and supports the region's businesses, injecting fresh energy and valuable resources. It also provides impetus to the region as a whole, working hard to create an outstanding that fosters prosperity.

Companies House
Companies House are responsible for making available to the public information on incorporated limited companies, plus the examination and storage of company information.

Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
The BERR works to create the best environment for business success in the UK helping people and companies become more productive by promoting enterprise, innovation and creativity.

Information Commissioner
The information commissioner is responsible for the promotion of good information handling practices, enforcing data protection and freedom of information legislation.

Intellectual Property Office
The Intellectual Property Office provide access to systems for granting intellectual property rights.

Commercial Law Services › Employment

ACAS
ACAS aims to improve organisations and working life through better employment relations. It provides up-to-date, independent advice, high quality training and works with employers and employees to solve problems and improve performance.

Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions is responsible for the Government's welfare reform agenda. Its aim is to promote opportunity and independence for all. It delivers support and advice through a modern network of services to people of working age, employers, pensioners, families and children and disabled people.

Employment Relations
The Employment Relations Directorate deals with relationships between workers and their employers, including individual rights as well as collective arrangements.

Employment Relations Directorate
The Employment Relations Directorate deals with relationships between workers and their employers, including individual rights as well as collective arrangements.

Employment Tribunals
Employment Tribunals resolve disputes between employers and employees over employment rights.

Equal Opportunities Commission
The Equal Opportunities Commission is the leading agency working to eliminate sex discrimination Britain.

Inland Revenue
The Inland Revenue is here to ensure that everyone understands and receives what they are entitled to and pays what they owe.

Tiger
In association with ACAS, this site is designed to provide a user-friendly guide through different aspects of UK employment law.

Education › Education

ASCL
The ASCL is the professional association for leaders of secondary schools and colleges. Heads, principals, deputy heads, vice-principals, assistant heads, assistant principals and other senior post holders are eligible for ASCL membership.

Guardian’s Educational Site
The Guardian’s educational online site.

Times Educational Site
The Times Educational Supplement online site

Personal › Agriculture

National Farmers' Union
The NFU champions British farming and provides professional representation and services to its farmer and grower members.

Country Land & Business Association
The CLA is the membership organisation for owners of land, property and businesses in rural England and Wales.

Personal › Child Care

ALC
The ALC is an organisation that promotes justice for children and young people within the legal system in England and Wales.

CPAG
CPAG promotes action for the relief, directly or indirectly, of poverty among children and families with children. It works to ensure that those on low incomes get their full entitlement to welfare benefits.

Personal › Crime Team

Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority is a Non-Departmental Public Body which administers the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme throughout England, Scotland and Wales.

HM Prison Service
The official site of HM Prison Service.

Personal › Family & Mediation

BBC Domestic Violence Information
The BBC’s site has information, help and support for anyone affected by domestic violence.

CAFCASS
CAFCASS looks after the interests of children involved in family proceedings. It works with children and their families, and then advises the courts on what it considers to be in the children's best interests.

Collaborative Family Lawyers
Collaborative Practice is a new way for divorcing or separating couples to work together as a team with trained professionals to resolve disputes respectfully, without going to court.

Legal Aid Eligibility Calculator
The legal aid calculator allows you to find out if you could get legal aid for a civil case.

Relate
Relate is the UK’s largest provider of relationship counselling and offer a range of other relationship support services.

Resolution
Resolution’s 5500 members are family lawyers committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes. Our members follow a Code of Practice that promotes a non-confrontational approach to family problems. Our members encourage solutions that consider the needs of the whole family - and in particular the best interests of children.

UK College of Family Mediators
For general information about family mediation, about how to contact a family mediator, and about the UK College of Family Mediators

Women's Aid
Women's Aid Federation of England (Women's Aid) is the national charity working to end domestic violence against women and children.

Personal › Housing

Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions is responsible for the Government's welfare reform agenda. Its aim is to promote opportunity and independence for all. It delivers support and advice through a modern network of services to people of working age, employers, pensioners, families and children and disabled people.

Disability Alliance
Disability Alliance are publishers of the Disability Rights Handbook and are regarded as the leading authority on social security benefits for disabled people.

Personal › Personal Injury

Association Of Personal Injury Lawyers
The Association Of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) is dedicated to improving the service provided to victims of accidents and clinical negligence.

Headway
Headway promote understanding of all aspects of brain injury and provide information, support and services to people with a brain injury, their family and carers.

Health and Safety Commission
Britain's Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are responsible for the regulation of almost all the risks to health and safety arising from work activity in Britain.

Personal › Residential Property

Home Check
Provides a guide to flooding, subsidence, pollution, landfill sites, schools, property prices and crime rates in your neighbourhood.

Inland Revenue Stamp Taxes
The Inland Revenue’s latest information about Stamp Duty Land Tax, Stamp Duty, and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax.

Land Register
This site guarantee the title to registered land in England and Wales and hold records for land ownership and interests.

Personal › Trusts & Estates

Age Concern
Age Concern is the UK's largest organisation working with and for older people providing vital local services as well as influencing public opinion and government.

Charity Commission
The Charity Commission is established by law as the regulator and registrar for charities in England and Wales. They are responsible for providing regulation of charities in order to increase charities’ effectiveness and public confidence and trust.

Inland Revenue
The Inland Revenue is here to ensure that everyone understands and receives what they are entitled to and pays what they owe.

Public Guardianship Office
The Public Guardianship Office are responsible for providing services which promote the financial and social well being of people with mental incapacity.