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Setting up and running a charity

Setting up and running a charity Setting up a charity

From:: The Charity Commission, Department for Communities and Local Government, HM Revenue & Customs, and 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 vulnerable groups including children
Public benefit: rules for charities

Change your charity structure

Change your charity structure
How to transfer charity assets

Forms, templates and resources

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
Charity trustee disqualification
Examples of personal benefit
Schools, colleges and universities: Charity Commission
Charity Commission policy on names

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