The Foundation has been created!

Unless you can register the foundation as a charity. Then you can claim gift aid on any donations.

Alan

Maybe a little sticker saying 'Brave Boy' (or Girl).

It's hard to justify as a charity, and that brings other complications.

In deed they are, the Foundation is a not for profit company, but that's not the same thing as a charity.

From www.gov.uk/government/publications/what-makes-a-charity-cc4

In England and Wales, a charity is an organisation that is:

established for charitable purposes only, and
subject to the High Court’s charity law jurisdiction
Purposes are what your charity is set up to achieve - they are explained in your governing document. To be charitable, your charity’s purposes must:

fall within the descriptions of purposes
be for the public benefit
As to what the 'public benefit' means, you can read up here

The legal opinion on what public benefit means is:
“To ascertain whether a gift constitutes a valid charitable trust so as to escape being void on the ground of perpetuity, a first inquiry must be whether it is public - whether it is for the benefit of the community or of an appreciably important class of the community. The inhabitants of a parish or town, or any particular class of such inhabitants, may, for instance, be the objects of such a gift, but private individuals, or a fluctuating body of private individuals, cannot.”

I suspect that our members would be 'a fluctuating body of private individuals'.

No pay wall. In what sense do you mean 'volunteer contributions'?

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