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Category: Charity
How to choose the right charitable purposes for your organisation
Choosing the right charitable purposes for your organisation is vital to make sure you achieve charitable status.
Seven duties of a company director
These statutory duties are owed by each director to the company and form the basis of what being a company director is all about. Link to Gov.uk.
Fundraising Guidance
Guidance on the law around fundraising and how the self-regulation system works in Scotland and rest of the UK. Link to OSCR.
Charities and Trading
This Guide looks at the main ways a charity can trade and what charity trustees need to consider. Link to OSCR.
Annual monitoring
It is a legal requirement for all charities to send a copy of their accounts to OSCR. What do you need to send?
Changes or reorganisation – what OSCR needs to know
Changes that need consent from OSCR, those that require notification, and others you can just make. Link to OSCR.
Good Governance
Discover the elements that, when handled properly, make for good governance in a charity or third sector organisation. Link to OSCR.
What is an Unincorporated Association?
Voluntary or unincorporated association: a further guide to help you decide on the structure of your organisation. Link to SCVO.
Meeting the charity test: Guidance
To be a Scottish charity or a charity registered in Scotland your organisation must pass the charity test. Link to OSCR.
Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation: A Guide
Guidance aimed at anyone who is considering setting up a charity, particularly those interested in becoming a SCIO. Link to OSCR.
What it means to be a charity?
An organisation can only become a charity if it meets the ‘charity test’, meaning that it must show it has only charitable purposes and benefits the public. Link to OSCR.
Do you need to be a charity?
There are benefits that come with being a charity but you need to balance these against the legal obligations that come with being a charity.