<html><body><!-- HTC Mail Separation -->Just noticed accidentally set my reply yesterday only to Claire. So here it is for what it's worth (?) <br><br>Alex<!-- HTC Mail Separation --><div id="htc_header" style="">----- Reply message -----<br>From: "Two Lochs Radio" <tlr@gairloch.co.uk><br>Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 13:42<br>Subject: Re: [cma-l] Charity limited company<br>To: "claire penketh" <clairepenketh@yahoo.co.uk><br><br></div><!-- HTC Mail Separation -->I'm not a company lawyer, but think the most usual arrangement would be to keep the limited company for all the existing 'business' purposes, and set up the charity to fundraise for charitable purposes that it would pursue through support of the radio station.<br><br>You would in any case have to establish the charity for wider community benefit, because running a radio station (even a community one) is not accepted as a valid charitable object in itself, only as a possible means to a wider charitable objective such as education, relief poverty etc.<br><br>Alex<br><br>Alex<!-- HTC Mail Separation --><div id="htc_header" style="">----- Reply message -----<br>From: "claire penketh" <clairepenketh@yahoo.co.uk><br>Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 09:33<br>Subject: [cma-l] Charity limited company<br>To: "'cma-l'" <cma-l@commedia.org.uk><br><br></div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"> Stroud FM, currently a company limited by guarantee, is thinking about becoming a charity limited company. Had a quick chat with OFCOM re implications for our licence, which is held in the name of Stroud Community Radio Limited and they said that we will have to keep the current <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>ltd company and set up the charity alongside, because the charity isn't a body coperate. Then they suggesed I ask the CMA what other members do, so here I am. However, I think a charity limited company is a body corporate? But, if the licence is held by Stroud community Radio limited, does that mean we still have to keep the company, or could the licence be transferred to the charity limited company?</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Yours, confused.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"> Claire Penketh, Stroud FM</div>
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