@jdaviescoates
Thanks, and although this has nothing to do with my original post on the integration of cPanel and Cloudron, I will let them know about the spelling mistake.
Our main non-profit website is a Google website as we have a non-profit account with them. Our services websites are not Google websites. So not entirely sure why this has been brought up in this post.
Although we are working on our own website the Google one is temp while we are developing it.
As for the rest of your post yet again not relating to my post about the integration of cPanel and Cloudron DNS for some reason.
"CICs cannot be charitable."
We choose to be charitable.
While I was writing this reply I went ahead and fixed the spelling issue.
If you also scroll right down to the bottom it already states similar to what you have put about putting "Non-profit Community Interest Community Registered by Companies House and Regulated by the CIC Regulator" but I guess you missed that part. Our CIC number connect direct to companies house.
As for Charitable or Charity, there is a fine line and that is why we started this petition,
Click this link to sign the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/639971/sponsors/new?token=GjHnoZd6ORRAJIgjebBL
Our petition:
Formally recognise CIC's as a non-profit charitable/charity organisation.
Formally recognise Community Interest Companies (CIC) as a form of non-profit charitable/charity organisation. CIC do a lot of good for the community, individual and even other charities.
Unless a company or organisation independently sees CIC as a charitable non-profit organisation CIC's get little or no help or support. They can not gain funding or get fundraising from educational institutes and more. This forces a lot of CIC to close, this needs to change and see CIC formations recognised as a charitable non-profit organisation.
As far as we see it we are asset-locked being a CIC, meaning if we had to close all our assets would be sent to a designated charity of our choosing like the RSPCA & few other charities like suicide prevention etc., and no one profits or recuperates costs from the closure of a CIC we are a charity or charitable organisation.
We are restricted and regulated so that we are not allowed profits and that all profits get used for the CIC and it's services or pay much-needed staff.
The only thing stopping the CIC's from formally being seen as a charity is the UK Government. They have never discussed in parliament the good CIC's do or the important work they do, they do not provide support or help and it needs to change. This is why organisations like
- Google
- Microsoft
- Canva
- Digital Ocean
- and so many more organisations let CIC get free or discounted services via their NON-Profit Programs.
This is because these companies see that CIC's do the exact same work as a charity registered on Charity Commissions and get nothing, they are also forced to lock assets and have restrictions on profits, so why can't they be called a non-profit charity?
Our argument is when you see our charity and charities like Mind, Pypirus, RSPCA or similar what is the difference?
Answer: None! We do the same work and provide the same free services.
So I think you will find most people nowadays understand that there are many forms of charities and charitable organisations and why CIC's should be included in this.
Also, you do not know our plans but here is a sneak peek for the future...
Can a charity have a subsidiary which is a community interest
company?
Yes. A charity may set up a CIC subsidiary company. For example, a charity could set-up
a CIC subsidiary company to run a charity shop and pass some or ALL of the profits to the
charity that owns it.
Once we have enough profits to take on a community centre we will be opening one to benefit people in person as well as online, and you need to have an annual income is over £5,000 or if you set up a charity. So once we have that all in place we will be registering to get a full Charity Status.
Once we have full charity status with a CIC that can provide the charity with all its financial needs we will also add our charity number to the website.
But these things take time, and to be honest, your reply is completely unrelated to our OP, seems petty, derogatory, and belittling of the work we do, and don't understand what you are trying to accomplish with your reply to a post about DNS and cPanel. Maybe you could have private messaged us?
We work hard every day for people and for animals.
But if you have a real issue with our wording on our website, spelling mistakes or the fact one of our many websites is run by Google Sites, by all means, complain to https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of-the-regulator-of-community-interest-companies/about/complaints-procedure we have had a few that have tried to belittle the good work we try to do and nothing has come from it.
