- What does 'not for profit' mean?
- Should you incorporate or remain unincorporated?
- If you decide to incorporate, which incorporated legal structure should you choose?
- Should you register as a charity?
Getting Started Tool: A free online tool
Need help making key legal decisions? Our self-help tool will ask you a series of questions about your new organisation - in plain and simple English - and will help determine the best way forward.
- be able carry out its activities effectively, and in a way that complies with the law
- minimise the chance the group will run into legal difficulties (and costs) as it grows or changes, and
- be in a better position to deal with legal issues if they do occur
Next steps
Once a community group is clear about its aims, membership and activities, it’s important for the group to decide whether to operate as a not-for-profit organisation or a for-profit organisation. View our resources on what not-for-profit means.