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What is Get Legal
Welcome
Introduction
Issues you should consider
How Get Legal works
About the decision tool
Who's involved?
The legal journey
Before setting up your organisation
Safeguarding the mission
Choosing to be a charity
Trading
Managing the risk
Funding and financing
Tax
Who’s in control – working out your governance structure
Stakeholders
Introduction to governance structures
Group or integrated structures
Working out your legal form
What it means to be unincorporated
Why incorporate/benefits of incorporation
Why remain unincorporated
Incorporation triggers
Options for incorporation
Legal forms in detail
Introduction
Industrial and Provident Societies
Introduction: Co-operative Structures
IPS Co-operative Society
IPS Community Benefit Societies
Asset Lock
Charitable status for IPS Community Benefit Societies
Companies: introduction explaining CLS, CLG, CIC
Introduction
Company Limited by Shares
Company Limited by Guarantee
Community Interest Company
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
Limited Liability Partnership
Unincoporated forms
Resources
Introduction
Further help and advice
Standard legal documents (precedents)
Glossary
Case studies
Amnesty International UK
Big Art Trust
Blenheim CDP
Diabetes UK
Groundwork
Hackney Community Transport
Land Data CIC
Westmill
Whitstable Umbrella Community Support Centre
Decision tool
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