Fundraising from the UK
Setting Up and Maintaining a Charity in the United Kingdom
Chapel & York can provide a variety of services tailored to help organisations outside the UK who want or already have their own UK registered charity:
1. Set up a UK registered charity - £2,500.00
2. Set up a UK registered charity as in 1. above and provide additional administration
services in connection with opening bank/brokerage/credit card accounts; advise and liaise with trustees/directors during the process; advise on first meeting of trustees/ directors following charity set up; provide an unlimited helpline throughout the process - £5,000.003. Provide an Annual Maintenance service for a UK registered charity, including an unlimited helpline - £1,837.50 pa.
4. Take over the Annual Maintenance of your existing UK registered charity - £500.00
Chapel and York can also provide an annual service, undertaking everything necessary to maintain a Registered Charity in the UK.
- Technical and Financial
- Make Gift Aid Returns to HMR&C to recover tax.
- Coordinate annual accounts and providing financial and narrative information to accountant/auditor
- File statutory Annual Returns as required by Charity Commission and Companies House.
- Ensure Annual General Meeting takes place and actions are appropriately documented.
- Ensure other Meetings occur or Resolutions are passed to document grants or other activities and actions are appropriately noted.
Administrative/Secretarial
- Provide an address in the UK for receipt of donations.
- Handle receipt, banking and acknowledgement of donations.
- Open bank and brokerage accounts with agreed suppliers.
- Maintain a database of donors and donations.
- Provide reports on activities undertaken as agreed- .
- The above maintenance service costs £1,837.50 + VAT [where applicable] per annum.
(Accountant/auditor’s fee is not included in Chapel & York’s maintenance service costs)
Advice
- Provide an unlimited helpline to answer questions relating to the operation of the UK registered charity.- Chapel & York can also provide additional support such as printing and mailing fundraising materials and providing Event administration services at an agreed price separate from the maintenance service.
To obtain more information please contact ukfund@chapel-york.com




