{"id":85203,"date":"2017-10-10T17:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=903583e22dc46b1eec9605386cbccb98"},"modified":"2017-10-10T17:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:02:35","slug":"news-story-charity-registration-response-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85203","title":{"rendered":"News story: Charity registration response times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Our registration team is currently experiencing extremely high demand for its services. In the last year we have seen a record number of new applications for charity registrations, and demand continues to rise.<\/p>\n<p>This is impacting on our published guidelines for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/how-to-register-your-charity-cc21b#how-to-apply-to-register-your-charity\">registration decisions and response times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may have to wait up to 12 weeks before you receive a response from the registration team. We apologise for this and any inconvenience it may cause.<\/p>\n<p>Because of limited resources, we are sorry that we can\u2019t provide updates for individual applications in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to advise applicants to submit full and complete registration applications well in advance of any deadlines. When applying to register a charity, please let us know if you have any relevant deadlines in the \u201cSpecial Circumstances\u201d section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/how-to-register-your-charity-cc21b\">online charity registration form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read our guidance if you want to find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/how-charity-registration-decisions-are-made-charity-commission\">charity registration decisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update about charity registrations and response times for processing applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}