Hi Claire<br><br>a few issues at play here.<br><br>You can talk to the Charity Commission about registering as a charity but be aware that they seem reluctant to bestow charitable status on organisations that seem to exist to 'entertain' regardless of your social aims - thus Jaqui's comment about charitable aims in your existing Mem & Arts. Indeed, I'd recommend having the same front and centre of your constitution, web site etc before approaching the Charity Commission. We had recent experience that suggests that, in spite of the precedents mentioned, there is not an open door for community radio stations to become charities unless they box clever from the outset.<br>
<br>Radio Regen was licensee for Wythenshawe FM and we're a charity - with 'education' as our charitable object - and the station was something that we did to further that - along with a load of other training elsewhere. PRESCAP, the licence holder for Preston FM, is a community arts organisation. So be very very clear that the furtherance of your charitable aims is the primary activity/purpose of your company.<br>
<br>As other respondents have said - a co. limited by guarantee can be a registered charity and that <i>should</i> be viewed as the same body corporate as prior to that registration - unless e.g. you have a wholesale reshuffle of the Board.<br>
<br>A charity, on its own, isn't legally a 'body corporate' - which is what
you've got to be to hold a licence - so having a parallel company
limited by guarantee is necessary. There will however soon be a new
body corporate to make this unecessary - a Charitable Incorporated
Organisastion - full details here - <a href="http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Start_up_a_charity/Do_I_need_to_register/CIOs/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Start_up_a_charity/Do_I_need_to_register/CIOs/default.aspx</a>. But I'm not sure if anyone knows the timetable.<br>
<br>Best of luck!<br><br>Phil<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 September 2011 09:33, claire penketh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clairepenketh@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">clairepenketh@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><span> 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></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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