慈善委员会是英格兰和威尔士的独立慈善组织监管机构。他们的工作是与慈善机构合作，确保慈善机构负责任地进行良好运作，并且履行其法定义务。他们的另一项宗旨是增强公众对慈善组织的信任与信心。他们向慈善组织提供各种建议和指导，并且每年编写两次业务通讯，传送至英格兰和威尔士的所有登记慈善组织。

他们向慈善组织提供法律要求和最佳做法方面的资讯和建议，帮助他们尽可能有效地运作，避免出现问题。如在极少数出现严重问题的情况下，他们有对问题进行调查并加以修正的广泛权力。

我把他们的网页里关于这个机构的一些简单资料翻译过来，有兴趣的朋友可以看一看。

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我们承担的角色

慈善活动是英国人日常生活的一部分。慈善组织包括从只有少量资金来源的地方小型团体到拥有百万预算资金的著名大型慈善组织。

无论其规模大小或目的，所有的慈善机构的运作都必须是为了符合公众利益以及独立于政府或者商业利益这样一个最基本的要求。

慈善委员会是依法成立的监管和负责注册英格兰和威尔士慈善组织的机构。我们的目的是为慈善组织提供尽可能最好的规则，以提高慈善组织的效率和成效，以及公众对他们的信心和信任。

在我们发布的慈善委员会及规则里详细的说明了我们的价值观，以及我们作为监管机构是如何运作的。我们在下面说明我们主要的活动。

登记注册

绝大多数在英格兰及威尔士的慈善机构必须在慈善委员会登记注册。如果你认为您的机构是一个慈善机构或如果您打算成立一个慈善机构，请与我们中心联系，联系电话：0845 300 0218。关于登记成为一个慈善机构在本网站发布的登记注册慈善机构的连接里有更多资料信息。

为慈善机构登记注册

我们有责任维护慈善机构的注册登记，您可以从我们的网站上，或在我们的任何一个办事处查看。在我们发布的CC45里，您可以得到更多有关使用登记注册的信息。

使慈善机构负起责任

年收入超过1万英镑的慈善机构，必须依照法律每年在他们的财政年度终结的十个月之内提供他们上一年度的帐目和报表。这些资料都是对公众公开的，并且在我们发布的CC45 为慈善机构登记注册-信息和提供的服务也告诉你如何查询以及获得这些资料。这些帐目资料帮助公众了解每一个单一的慈善机构。我们使用它们（连同慈善机构在10个月期限内必须填写完成的上一年度收入回报表）来识别慈善机构在哪些方面需要我们帮助进行提高改善。，我们很严肃认真地对待在限定的期限里提供规定的信息。有关这方面的更多信息可以在网页：符合我们的要求 里找到。我们在未履行义务慈善机构名称查找网页里公布未履行义务的慈善机构名称。

装备慈善机构以更好开展工作

我们这样做是通过每年给2万4千个慈善机构提供建议和指导，除此之外，我们的电话联络中心接受处理了达25万个电话服务，我们发布各种相关有益信息的网站点击达到1千2百万。在我们评审访问项目里，我们每年还拜访数百家大型慈善机构，为现代化的慈善机构制作方案计划。我们的方案报告突出监管的做法帮助了慈善机构提高自身的表现以及汲取别人的经验教训。

符合我们的要求

我们致力于为产生问题的慈善机构在早期阶段找出并解决存在的问题。虽然蓄意欺诈或者不诚实行为在慈善机构发生较低，但慈善委员会具有较强的法律权利在事件发生时进行调查和处理。

我们的主要优先任务是确保慈善机构回到正轨，继续作好将来的工作。我们发布所有调查报告，以帮助其他慈善机构从中汲取教训。

对慈善机构关注的公众可以查看我们发布的CC47关于投诉慈善机构，查看是否他们的关注慈善委员会可以进行处理，如是，如何提交问题于我们。

其他的机构

我们不能做到所有！我们的网页衔接了其他可以就慈善机构具体操作或特定慈善群体进行监管的机构（例如，税务局，房屋监管公司）。我们还提供了其他诸如提供培训，资讯，拨款和其他资源的链接。

如果您认为我们有错误

如果您要对我们的服务水准进行投诉，我们向您提供投诉程序。如果您对我们作出的决定不满意，您可以在某些情况下，要求我们进行审查或者上述到高院。

 

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