Charity
A charity is not a separate type of legal structure. An unincorporated association, trust or company may all be charities, but only if their purposes and activities are wholly charitable. They must also be set up for the benefit of the public.
For more information please visit the Charity Commission website
Examples of charitable objects;
- Advancement of Education
- Advancement of Religion
- Advice and Counselling
- Animal Charities
- Carers
- Community Amateur Sports Clubs
- Community Capacity Building
- Community Centre
- Community Transport
- Concilliation And Mediation
- Conservation of the environment
- Disasters
- Elderly People
- Equality and Diversity
- Family Planning
- Museum and/or Art Gallery, The Establishment and Maintenance of a
- Promotion of Human Rights
- Promotion of the Law, Police and Crime Prevention
- Racial Harmony
- Recreational Charities Act 1958
- Recycling
- Refugees / Those Seeking Asylum
- Relief of Financial Hardship
- Relief of Sickness
- Relief of unemployment
- Religious Harmony
- Sustainable Development
- Urban or Rural Regeneration
- Village Halls
- Young People