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Setting up and running a charity

Setting up and running a charity

Setting up a charity

From:: The Charity Commission, HM Revenue & Customs, and Closed organisation: Homes and Communities Agency

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Introductory guides

Set up a charity

Essential reading

How to set up a charity (CC21a)
Charity types: how to choose a structure (CC22a)
How to write your charity's governing document (CC22b)
How to write charitable purposes
How to choose a charity name
Get funding to start a charity
How to register a charity (CC21b)

How to run your new charity

Charity trustee: what’s involved (CC3a)
Trustee board: people and skills
Charities: how to protect children and adults at risk
Public benefit: rules for charities

Change your charity structure

Change your charity structure
How to transfer charity assets

Forms, templates and resources

How to get a charity registration certificate
Charity trustee: declaration of eligibility and responsibility
Setting up a charity: model governing documents
Charities supporting the armed forces: model governing documents
List of national organisations with approved governing documents
Example charitable objects

Charity status: policy documents

What makes a charity (CC4)
Public benefit: an overview
The essential trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do (CC3)
Public benefit: the public benefit requirement (PB1)
Legal analysis: public benefit
How charity registration decisions are made: Charity Commission
Charitable purposes and public benefit
Charity Commission: registration decisions
Charitable purposes
Finding new trustees (CC30)
Exempt charities (CC23)
Birth of a charity (RS29)
Excepted charities

Other

Affordable home ownership
Charitable registered social landlords
Charities providing housing
Why some individuals can't act as charity trustees
Examples of personal benefit
Schools, colleges and universities: Charity Commission
Charity Commission policy on names

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