Governance

A Guide to the CIC Online Process

Join the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies on 17 March for a step-by-step guide on how to successfully incorporate your Community Interest Company (CIC) online.

Take this opportunity to learn how to successfully complete an online CIC incorporation application from start to finish. There will also be an overview of Community Interest Companies provided, along with some guidance on preparing your Articles of Association and completing form CIC36. 

Ethical Property Foundation: Does your charity need a property?

The Ethical Property Foundation (EPF) is pleased to continue our 2026 webinar series. Do charities need property? As the UK’s leading property advice charity for the voluntary sector, we offer this free webinar to help charities and voluntary organisations make informed decisions about property.

In particular, this practical and reflective session will support you to think carefully about the role property plays in your work. It will also help you decide whether having premises genuinely adds value to your mission.

Online

Plunkett UK: Understanding Community Benefit Society (CBS) Model Rules

This online introductory session is ideal for community groups, social enterprises, and anyone considering forming or updating to a Community Benefit Society model structure.

 What You’ll Learn 

  • What a CBS is and why it matters

Discover how a CBS operates for community benefit, how it is regulated by the FCA, and why most Plunkett-supported groups choose this structure.

Online

Beeston-Clarke Accountants: Charity Chatter on Money Matters - The new Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP)

Join Beeston-Clarke Accountants on the 4th March when numbers specialist Steph Beeston-Clarke will be talking about the new charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP).

 

Online