Setting up and running a charity

Setting up a charity: detailed information

• 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
• 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