Charities with employees need to be aware of health and safety legislation, which requires the employees' places of work and their working environment to be safe.

Matters of the law relating to data protection and intellectual property rights can also be relevant to a charity's business, as well as matters of special application for charities, such as on the disposal of land, or arranging fund raising events or street or door-to-door collections. A breach of such legislation can leave trustees with personal criminal liability or, if their failure to observe the law has drained the charity of funds, personally liable for replacing those lost funds.