Charities exist to benefit the public. You can change your cookie settings at any time. It may also be helpful to provide any marketing literature, a feasibility study or a business plan. To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Your charity can have more than one purpose but it can’t have any purposes that aren’t charitable.
7) Details of the costs/salaries and anticipated profits in running the company. Guidance on how to raise funds for your charity. For more information on trustee recruitment, read Trustee board: people and skills. In the form you will need to provide the following information and evidence in your request for a statement of non-objection, to assist us in making our decision: 1) Details about the purposes and operation of the company: how it will operate in practice, including how the company will be marketed and, how it will identify and sign up clients, customers or charities. Check that your type of organisation can be a charity.
As a trustee, you must run your charity with as much care as you would manage your own affairs. A ‘social enterprise’ is a business that has social, environmental or community-based objectives and can have non-charitable purposes. 6) How you see the work of this proposed company differing from other organisations providing similar services and opportunities to charities that do not use one any of the sensitive words in their name? Once you’ve decided on your charity’s purpose, you need to decide what organisational structure it will have. But you can apply to HM Revenue and Customs to recognise your organisation as charitable so that you can claim back tax on things like Gift Aid donations. They may be known as trustees, directors, board members, governors or committee members. We use cookies to collect information about how you use GOV.UK. All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, Step 1: decide if a charity is the right option, recognise your organisation as charitable, they can only be paid where it is authorised, can’t usually benefit anyone connected with the charity, have purposes the law recognises as being charitable, Trustee Bank from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Set up a donor fund - UK Community Foundations, Set up a CAF charitable trust - Charities Aid Foundation, Charity types: how to choose a structure (CC22a), How to write your governing document (CC22b), How to write your charity's governing document (CC22b), How to get a charity registration certificate, List of Charity Commission 'CC' guidance publications, Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance and support, Transparency and freedom of information releases, can get certain types of grants and funding, follow charity law, which includes telling the Charity Commission and the public about their work, be run by trustees who do not usually personally benefit from the charity, be independent - a charity can work with other organisations but must make independent decisions about how it carries out its charitable purposes, charity trustees are normally unpaid volunteers -, registered charities must provide public, up-to-date information about their, charities are outward facing - they can’t be set up to benefit the narrow interests of a closed group, they help the commission decide if your organisation is a charity and HM Revenue and Customs decide if it qualifies for tax relief, they explain to the people who run, support or benefit from your charity what it does and who it helps, your charity can only do things that carry out its purposes, charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), what it can do to carry out its purposes (‘powers’), such as borrowing money, who runs it (‘trustees’) and who can be a member (if appropriate), any rules about paying trustees, investments and holding land, whether the trustees can change the governing document, including its charitable objects (‘amendment provisions’), how to close the charity (‘dissolution provisions’), have specialist skills like fundraising or finance, have community contacts which might help attract volunteers, understand or reflect the needs of the people your charity helps. Unless your charity is a specific type of charity that doesn’t have to register, you must apply to register your charity with the commission once it has an income over £5,000. Check that being a charity won’t stop you doing things you want to do. For more information, read How to write charitable purposes. Start raising money for your charity once it’s set up. Your charity’s purposes are important because: You must run your charity in a way that’s consistent with and supports its purposes.