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Setting up and running a charity

Setting up a charity

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

  1. Set up a charity

Essential reading

  1. How to set up a charity (CC21a)
  2. Charity types: how to choose a structure (CC22a)
  3. How to write your charity's governing document (CC22b)
  4. How to write charitable purposes
  5. How to choose a charity name
  6. Get funding to start a charity
  7. How to register a charity (CC21b)

How to run your new charity

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

Change your charity structure

  1. Change your charity structure
  2. How to transfer charity assets

Forms, templates and resources

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

Charity status: policy documents

  1. What makes a charity (CC4)
  2. Public benefit: an overview
  3. The essential trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do (CC3)
  4. Public benefit: the public benefit requirement (PB1)
  5. Legal analysis: public benefit
  6. How charity registration decisions are made: Charity Commission
  7. Charitable purposes and public benefit
  8. Charity Commission: registration decisions
  9. Charitable purposes
  10. Finding new trustees (CC30)
  11. Exempt charities (CC23)
  12. Birth of a charity (RS29)
  13. Excepted charities

Other

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

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