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Guidance
Community interest companies: forms and step-by-step guides
- From:
- Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
- Part of:
- Social enterprise
- Published:
- 1 September 2012
- Last updated:
- 5 October 2016, see all updates
The processes you need to follow, and the documents you need to submit, when you are a community interest company or you wish to form (or convert to) a community interest company.
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A Community Interest Company (CIC) is a limited company, with special additional features, created for the use of people who want to conduct a business or other activity for community benefit, and not purely for private advantage.
This step-by-step guidance explains what you need to do to:
- form a CIC
- form a community interest public limited company (plc)
- convert an existing company to a CIC
- convert a charitable company to a CIC
- convert an industrial and provident society (IPS) to a CIC
- convert a private company to a community interest plc
- convert a plc to a community interest plc
- change or specifying an asset-locked body in the articles of association
- alter clauses in the articles of association
- alter the object statement of a CIC
- change the status of a CIC to a community interest plc
- convert a CIC to a charitable company
- convert a CIC to an IPS
- arrange the voluntary dissolution of a CIC
- file an annual CIC report and accounts
It includes links to the appropriate forms, model constitutions (including the memorandum of association and articles of association) and model special resolutions.
Document information
Published: 1 September 2012
Updated: 5 October 2016
- Updated the notice of intent to remove the company from 3 to 2 months.
- Companies House addresses amended
- Step-by-step guides updated to reflect new version of IN01
- Updated office address
- Updated form IN01 link
- Updated the convert a CIC to a Registered Society step-by-step guide.
- Voluntary dissolution step by step guide updated.
- Convert an existing comapny to CIC step-by-step guides updated
- First published.