About
This Level 4 course provides an introduction to the legal and regulatory framework around charities in England and Wales. It gives an understanding of the legal basis of the charity, the role of regulators and how to fulfil your charitable purpose whilst adhering to legal and regulatory requirements.
Download the Charity Law and Governance syllabusStudy text
This is the main pdf version of the study text, available to download as part of your qualification package.
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Charity Law and Governance |
Download the study text chapters |
These are the recommended study text chapters for the June 2022 exam. The updated study text will not be available at the online bookshop as a printed version. |
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Charity Law and Governance |
Download the study support guide |
The study support guide contains questions and case studies to support your reading of the study text. |
Exam material
In the table below you will find:
- Exam paper - this is the paper that was set at the exam session
- Mark scheme - this is the document markers used to assess students' answers
- Examiner's report - this is the examiner's comment on the examination performance
- Student answers - for some sessions we can show examples of answers students wrote in the examination
| Exam session | Exam paper | Mark scheme | Examiner's report | Student answers |
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| June 2021 | View | View | View | |
| November 2020 | View | View | View | |
| November 2019 | View | View | View | |
| June 2019 | View | View | View | |
| November 2018 | View | View | View | Section C Section C |
| June 2018 | View | View | View | |
| November 2017 | View | View | View | Section C Section C |
| June 2017 | View | View | View | |
| November 2016 | View | View | Section B Section C |
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| June 2016 | View | View | ||
| Sample | Sample paper | Sample mark scheme | n/a |
Additional reading
The Charity Law and Governance guidance notes can be found here.
- Our guidance from 2017 includes 'Cultural Markers': Assessing, measuring and improving culture in the charitable sector.
- Additional reading on Charity Commission guidance
- Additional reading on conflicts of interest
- Additional reading on disclosures: obligations
- Additional reading on excepted charities information
- Additional reading on the essential trustee
Webinar recordings
This section contains the recordings with all corresponding slides below. This section will be updated throughout the time the live course is running from September 2021.
The recordings for the 2020 cohort can be accessed here.