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

Updated: Form IN01 continuation sheet added

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:

form a CIC 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 an IPS arrange the voluntary dissolution of a CIC file an annual CIC report and accounts

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

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-interest-companies-business-activities

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