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England and Wales · CharityReg Essential™
Setting up a charitable company just became refreshingly straightforward. With Coddan CPM Ltd’s Basic Charity Company Incorporation package, you can glide through the key stages of setting up a new charitable company in England and Wales, from Companies House registration to navigating the all-important Charity Commission process. Whether you’re eyeing tax reliefs like Gift Aid or want peace of mind, this Charity Company Package ensures your details are all in order. The CharityReg Essential™ package starts at £495 + VAT, offering a smooth start for your non-profit vision, with clear guidance at every checkpoint. Seamlessly set up a charitable company with support that doesn’t overwhelm, ensuring your entity is ready for official recognition and future growth. For founders eager to make a difference, the Charity Company Package and CharityReg Essential™ package start at £495 + VAT and provide the essentials for building trust and unlocking your charitable ambitions.
Form your charitable company in England and Wales with professional incorporation preparation and essential charity-registration assistance. CharityReg Essential™ suits founders whose charitable purposes, proposed structure and core information are substantially prepared. Coddan clarifies the information needed, prepares and reviews the agreed company documents, and submits the incorporation application after your approval and applicable checks.
£495 + VAT, including the £100 Companies House incorporation fee. Company incorporation and charity registration remain separate stages and decisions.
Use Essential when your charitable purposes, structure and core information are substantially prepared. Coddan turns the supplied information into suitable company documents and an incorporation application. If wider preparation is needed, ask us to identify the appropriate work before ordering.
✓ Prepared plans | ✓ Suitable company documents | ✓ Scope clarified first
The £495 + VAT package includes the £100 Companies House incorporation fee. Coddan reviews and submits the approved application after applicable checks. After successful incorporation, receive the certificate of incorporation, memorandum and articles as digital PDFs. Printed or authenticated sets and additional records are separately agreed.
✓ Application review | ✓ Agreed submission | ✓ Digital documents
With the required information ready, allow approximately 5–10 minutes to enter your order details. Tell us the proposed name, charitable activities and participants. Your personal manager helps clarify questions; document preparation, checks and approval follow before submission.
✓ Online order | ✓ Help with information | ✓ Approval before submission
Coddan prepares the agreed charity-registration information and supporting documents and assists with the applicable Charity Commission submission. Tell us about existing articles, an existing company or an application already underway so we can identify suitable work. Company incorporation and charity registration are separate decisions.
✓ Supporting information | ✓ Submission assistance | ✓ Help with the appropriate route
Coddan CPM Limited appears on the Companies House formation-agent list. For Essential, our team clarifies the supplied details, prepares suitable incorporation documents and handles the approved application. Companies House decides incorporation; the Charity Commission decides charity registration.
✓ Company-document preparation | ✓ Professional review | ✓ Approved application handling
Coddan CPM Limited is HMRC-supervised for anti-money-laundering purposes and registered as an ACSP. We help identify relevant checks for the proposed directors and other applicable participants. AML customer checks and Companies House identity verification remain separate. Coddan-performed verification is separately purchased; accepted verification and the free official route remain available. Companies House issues the Personal Code.
✓ Relevant-check guidance | ✓ Separate verification service | ✓ Accepted official routes
Fast electronic incorporation: Companies House normally processes a straightforward standard software application within 24 hours of submission. Complex applications and particular routes can take longer. Charity registration has its own process and timetable.
Charity registration and HMRC tax recognition are separate matters. Ask about the tax steps relevant to your organisation; tax-registration work is not automatically included.
Your personal manager helps with the formation instruction, questions and next steps during working hours. Paid priority handling is separate.
Need a different level of preparation? Compare charitable company formation packages. Address services, additional documents and continuing administration can be discussed separately.
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Choose CharityReg Essential™ if you are forming a charitable company limited by guarantee in England and Wales and have already worked out its purposes, governing arrangements and core application information. It suits founders who have a substantially prepared proposal and want Coddan to turn it into an incorporation application and prepare the supporting charity-registration information. |
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Charitable company formation · Personal assistance · Charity-registration support
Use CharityReg Essential™ to form a charitable company limited by guarantee in England and Wales when your purposes, proposed structure and core information are substantially prepared. Give Coddan your instructions online; we clarify, prepare and review the agreed company documents and incorporation application, with essential charity-registration assistance within the accepted service.
Ordering, document preparation, company incorporation and charity registration are different stages. Company incorporation does not itself make the company a registered charity. Tell Coddan about a launch or funder deadline before relying on an outcome date.
✓ Personal-manager assistance | ✓ Suitable preparation | ✓ Review before agreed submission | ✓ Additional work and charges agreed first
For CharityReg Essential, substantially prepared means you can explain the proposed charitable purposes, who will benefit, the intended company structure and the core information about those involved. You do not need to arrive with perfect articles or a completed incorporation application: Coddan clarifies the supplied information and prepares and reviews the agreed company documents for your approval. Tell us about existing activities, funds, property, contracts or governing documents before ordering, so we can confirm whether Essential fits the work you need.
Starting a charitable company doesn’t have to feel like navigating a legal maze. Coddan CPM Ltd’s Basic Charity Company Incorporation package streamlines the key stages of setting up a new charitable company in England and Wales—registering your Private Company Limited by Guarantee with Companies House efficiently and correctly from the outset. The CharityReg Essential™ package starts at £495 + VAT, offering a straightforward entry point for those who want to set up a charitable company with confidence. Where required, guidance is also available towards Charity Commission, OSCR, or Charity Commission for Northern Ireland registration — the separate step needed to unlock HMRC reliefs like Gift Aid. For organisations ready to do real good, this Charity Company Package lays the proper legal groundwork.
You do not have to prepare and submit the company application without help. Coddan reviews the supplied facts, prepares the accepted company documents and supports the agreed charity-registration preparation. The founders make the organisation’s decisions and approve the documents.
If the purposes, membership or governing arrangements need broader preparation, discuss CharityReg Professional or explain what remains undecided. If a company already exists, ask about the work it needs rather than automatically ordering incorporation again.
CharityReg Essential combines preparation and review of the agreed company documents and incorporation application with essential preparation of charity-registration information and supporting documents, and assistance with the applicable Charity Commission submission. You provide the organisation’s information and approve the prepared work. Companies House decides company incorporation; the Charity Commission makes the separate charity-registration decision. The inclusion list below identifies the package work, and your personal manager helps clarify the accepted instruction.
The directors of a charitable company are its charity trustees, responsible for directing and overseeing the charity. Guarantor-members exercise the membership rights set out in the articles and undertake the stated guarantee. A person may hold both roles, but the responsibilities remain distinct. Individual or corporate guarantor-members can be accommodated where applicable; the proposed directors, trustees, members and any PSCs must fit the actual organisation and relevant requirements. Tell Coddan who will be involved so we can clarify the information and approvals needed.
Our Basic Package provides an efficient, low-cost route to set up your charitable company limited by guarantee, handling mandatory Companies House e-filing and statutory document preparation from start to finish.
We prepare custom non-profit Articles of Association and Statement of Guarantee to ensure your charitable objectives meet statutory Companies House requirements prior to registration.
Complete mandatory officer digital ID checks quickly via smartphone (Credas) in full compliance with Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP) anti-money laundering regulations.
Once approved by you, we submit your application directly to Companies House via direct e-filing, including the official £100 government registration fee in your order.
Enjoy fast incorporation processing. Most charitable company applications submitted through our registered agent portal are approved electronically within 3 to 4 working hours.
Upon successful registration, we immediately email your official Certificate of Incorporation, Memorandum & Articles of Association, and statutory registers in PDF format.
Receive essential instructions on setting up your Corporation Tax record with HMRC following incorporation, alongside guidance on applying for UK non-profit tax exemptions.
Paid per-person checks, registered-office and individual address services, physical forwarding, printed or authenticated document sets, further drafting, paid priority handling, HMRC recognition, accounts and continuing administration are outside the base service unless expressly selected or agreed.
Membership certificates, initial minutes and prepared registers are not automatically part of the digital incorporation set. Tell Coddan what you need and how it will be used before ordering additional documents. Printing, an official certified copy, notarisation and apostille are different requirements.
An initial charity-registration instruction is different from ongoing company or charity administration. A later filing or change is not included simply because it concerns the same organisation.
Recorded package charge: £495 + VAT, including the £100 Companies House incorporation fee. Separately selected checks and other work can change the amount payable for your order. Additional work and charges are agreed before that work proceeds.
UK-resident online order forms add VAT; non-UK-resident order forms do not add VAT. If you are applying from overseas, explain your location and the intended England and Wales company route before choosing a form if anything is unclear.
The separate checks service costs £30 per person. Where the individual already has a Companies House Personal Code, this covers KYC. Where they do not, the same £30 covers KYC and relevant Companies House identity verification, including Coddan’s associated confirmation submission. These are distinct processes, without a second £30 charge for the combined checks.
AML customer checks are Coddan’s customer due-diligence checks for its service relationship. Companies House identity verification is a separate process for individuals whose company roles require it. Accepted existing Companies House verification and the free official verification route remain available; they do not replace Coddan’s separate AML checks. Membership or trusteeship alone does not mean every participant needs the same Companies House step. Your personal manager helps clarify the applicable checks and the separately charged work described above. Send identity evidence and confidential codes only through the appropriate secure process.
You provide the proposed name, charitable activities and beneficiaries, relevant company and trustee arrangements, directors, initial guarantor-members, guarantees, addresses and control information. Identify who may instruct Coddan, make the founders’ decisions and approve the prepared documents. The payer, organiser, director and trustee may have different responsibilities.
Charitable objects state what the organisation is established to achieve. For a charitable company, its articles of association are the governing rules, including its objects and arrangements for membership and decision-making. Explain the proposed activities, beneficiaries and arrangements in ordinary language, and tell Coddan about existing articles or adviser-prepared documents. Your personal manager helps clarify what is needed; Coddan prepares and reviews the documents within the accepted service, and the appropriate founders approve their arrangements.
Coddan prepares and reviews the agreed application and documents, raises necessary questions and obtains approval before submission. The relevant founders approve their arrangements; Companies House and the charity regulator decide their respective applications.
After successful company incorporation, Essential provides the certificate of incorporation, memorandum and articles as digital PDFs. The certificate records the company’s incorporation; the memorandum records the initial guarantors’ agreement to form it, and the articles set out its governing rules. These documents do not establish entry on the charity register. Keep accessible copies for the company’s records and later applications. If a funder or adviser requests a particular document or format, ask Coddan what is needed before ordering additional records or authenticated copies.
Charity-registration preparation uses the organisation’s relevant purposes, activities, governing document and supporting information. Its required material and submission stage depend on the applicable process. HMRC recognition and a funder’s evidence request may involve different work; ask about the actual request rather than assuming the company document set covers it.
Online instruction · Professional preparation · Charity-registration support
Use CharityReg Essential for substantially prepared England and Wales plans. Give Coddan your company and organisation details online; we help prepare and review the accepted documents and support the Charity Commission instruction through to its decision.
Preparation, company incorporation and charity registration have different clocks. Tell Coddan about a launch or funder deadline before relying on a particular outcome date.
✓ Personal-manager assistance | ✓ Suitable preparation | ✓ Review before agreed submission | ✓ Additional work and charges agreed first
No. It combines the stated company work with essential preparation of charity-registration information and supporting documents and assistance for the applicable submission.
No. Explain the plans and documents you have. Coddan prepares the accepted company documentation and can identify where further drafting or broader preparation needs separate agreement.
Tell Coddan before ordering so the document supply route, review and charges can be confirmed. Supplying documents does not by itself determine all remaining work.
No. Company incorporation and charity registration have separate decisions and identifiers. Do not treat the company certificate as a charity-registration certificate.
Charges depend on the individuals and checking work required, including their existing verification status. Membership or trusteeship alone does not mean each person automatically needs the same Companies House step.
Not in this base offer unless expressly selected or agreed. You can discuss those services without assuming they belong in the formation price.
Explain the uncertainty. Coddan can discuss broader preparation, the Professional package or separate work and price, rather than asking you to guess the service.
No. Coddan provides the agreed preparation and assistance; the regulator makes the registration decision.
If Essential fits your England and Wales plans, start your order. If you have existing documents or a question about scope, describe the organisation and ask first. An enquiry does not commit you to an order.
Use general enquiry email for the organisation and work you need. Identity documents and confidential codes follow the secure process provided.
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