Introduction: The End of Your First Year… and a Question Many Directors Forget Your first year running a Community Interest Company (CIC) is nearly complete. You’ve navigated funding applications, recruited volunteers, delivered services to your community, and balanced purpose with… Read More ›
Running a Community Interest Company often starts with a simple goal — to help a community, deliver a social project, or solve a local problem. But once the organisation begins operating, most directors eventually face the same question: “Can I… Read More ›
If you are about to file CIC accounts online for the first time, you are probably feeling two things at once. First, relief that you can submit everything digitally.Second, a quiet worry in the back of your mind: “What if… Read More ›
It usually starts with good intentions. You meant to deal with your CIC accounts last month. Then something else took priority — a funding bid, a staffing issue, a community event. Before you know it, the deadline has passed. You… Read More ›
Starting something that exists to benefit the community is a serious commitment.Yet many founders rush their CIC formation because they assume it is “just registering a company with a social twist”. It isn’t. A Community Interest Company is a regulated… Read More ›
If you’re preparing your first CIC tax return and feeling a knot in your stomach, you’re in good company. Most first-time Community Interest Company (CIC) directors hit the same moment of disbelief: “We’re not-for-profit… why am I dealing with Corporation… Read More ›
If you’re a director of a Community Interest Company (CIC), there’s a good chance you’ve already discovered an uncomfortable truth:filing CIC accounts online is not as simple as clicking “upload” and moving on. For many first-time CIC directors, the online… Read More ›
If you’re running a Community Interest Company for the first time, there’s a moment most directors quietly dread. It’s not the launch. Not the funding applications. Not even the bank account setup.It’s the email reminder that says your first set… Read More ›
If you’re a director of a Community Interest Company (CIC), chances are you’ve paused at some point and asked yourself a slightly uncomfortable question:“Am I actually allowed to pay myself… and am I doing it properly?” That hesitation is a… Read More ›
Many businesses begin as standard limited companies and only later realise that what they actually do is deliver real social or community benefit. This often becomes clear when applying for grants, working with local authorities, or wanting to protect a… Read More ›