Charities and fundraising

You need our approval before you fundraise. Learn about the different types of approval you can get, depending on your needs.

Learn about the ways you can collect money, reporting requirements and working with commercial businesses.

See the list of forms for managing charities and fundraising associations.

You need to tell us if you want to change your charity’s name, constitution or governing body members. Find out how.

Learn how to close a charity, apply to have a charity deregistered, and check which charities have been removed from the register in the last month

Learn how to spot genuine collectors and how to check information about a charity, such as who has applied to be a charity in the last month

Find out how to lodge an application to remove a charity from the Fair Trading register.