How to write your charity's governing document (CC22b)

Charity rules: governing documents. Your charity’s governing document is a legal document. It works as a rulebook, setting out: its charitable purposes (‘objects’)

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Set up a charity: Governing document - GOV.UK

The governing document is a set of rules that explains how your charity is run. It needs to include your charity's structure, name and purposes. Find out how to write your governing document

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Setting up a charity: model governing documents - GOV.UK

Model governing documents are available for charities supporting the armed forces. Updates to this page. Published 1 January 2012. Last updated 11 October 2022 + show all updates.

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A charity's governing document: What it should include - NCVO

Governing documents for different charity legal structures The name of your governing document and the titles of the trustees are different depending on the legal structure of your charity. For example, the legal structure of an unincorporated association has a constitution (governing document) and management committee members (title of the trustees).

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Choose the governing document that’s right for you

The governing documents are long, especially the incorporated (CIO) documents, and the language is difficult. But reading it all carefully, together with the notes in the margin, will help you to understand the rules which will govern your charity. It might be helpful to print the whole thing off and go through each section with a highlighter ...

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UK Charity Constitution Templates & Model Governing Documents

A charity constitution (governing document) is a legal document that sets out its charitable purposes (‘objects’), powers, who runs it and who can be a member, meetings and appointments, rules on remuneration, investments and holding land, power to change the governing document and how to close the charity.

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Charitable Associations: Model Constitution - GOV.UK

• Choosing and Preparing a Governing Document (CC22) - this gives advice on the practicalities of completing the charity’s governing document and on the different provisions which may be needed • The Essential Trustee - What you need to know (CC3), which sets out the basics that all charity trustees need to know Next steps 1.

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Governing Documents: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?

Learn what governing documents are, why they are important for U.S. tax exemption, and how they are reviewed by NGOsource. Find out how to amend governing documents that do not meet U.S. charity standards and what other documents are also relevant for the equivalency determination process.

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Model governing documents - Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

The Commission has produced five model governing documents, which are available to download below in MS Word format by clicking on the links above. If you wish to make use of one of the documents, please save the document onto your desktop to work from, or copy and paste the text from the document to a blank MS Word document.

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Trustee Duties - OSCR

What trustees need to know. 1. Always do what is best for your charity: as a charity trustee you have a legal responsibility to put the interests of your charity above your own interests. 2. Know your charitable purpose(s): everything you do should be directed at achieving only the purposes set out in your governing document. 3. Understand your charity’s finances: all the charity trustees ...

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