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Guidance: Community interest companies: forms and step-by-step guides

Office Of The Regulator Of Community Interest Companies

December 14
10:11 2022

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A Community Interest Company (CIC) is a limited company, with special additional features, created for the use of people who want to conduct a business or other activity for community benefit, and not purely for private advantage.

This step-by-step guidance explains what you need to do to:

  • Handy Hits and Tips befor completing your CIC application
  • form a CIC online or by post
  • form a community interest public limited company (plc)
  • convert an existing company to a CIC
  • convert a charitable company to a CIC
  • convert an industrial and provident society (IPS) to a CIC
  • convert a private company to a community interest plc
  • convert a plc to a community interest plc
  • change or specifying an asset-locked body in the articles of association
  • alter clauses in the articles of association
  • alter the object statement of a CIC
  • change the status of a CIC to a community interest plc
  • convert a CIC to a charitable company
  • convert a CIC to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
  • convert a CIC to an IPS
  • arrange the voluntary dissolution of a CIC
  • file an annual CIC report and accounts online or by post

It includes links to the appropriate forms, model constitutions (including the memorandum of association and articles of association) and model special resolutions.

Published 1 September 2012
Last updated 14 December 2022 +show all updates
  1. Added information on Peron of Significant Control

  2. Updated information on filing CIC accounts

  3. Added helpful tips

  4. Updated information on filing CIC accounts online

  5. Updating step-by-step guidelines to incorporate and convert an application.

  6. Updated the Regulators Office address

  7. Uploaded online account filing webinar

  8. Updating link to online accounts facility

  9. amendments to guidance notes

  10. To ensure the new online process is at the top of the document

  11. Coding for addresses amended

  12. Added links to main list

  13. Adding further information - online incorporation

  14. New process for a CIC converting to a CIO

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