The complete platform for
UK Community Interest Companies
From formation documents to grant applications. Everything you need to start, run, and grow your CIC.
Document generation fee. Companies House registration fee (£115 online) paid separately to them.
Free for every CIC
Claim your profile in the UK's largest CIC directory. Get found by funders, partners, volunteers, and supporters.
What's included free:
Manchester Youth CIC
Youth services • Manchester
Providing after-school activities, mentoring programmes, and skills workshops for young people aged 11-18 in Greater Manchester...
Looking for a volunteer football coach for Saturday sessions
Starting a CIC?
Generate all your formation documents in as little as 15 minutes.
Running a CIC?
Everything you need to stay compliant, track impact, and win grants.
Never scramble at year-end
Log activities via WhatsApp throughout the year. When your CIC34 is due, your report writes itself.
WhatsApp Logger →
£1,500 penalty? Not you.
Track every deadline — accounts, CIC34, insurance renewals. Get WhatsApp reminders before anything's due.
Compliance Tracker →
Policies that get grants approved
Safeguarding, GDPR, Health & Safety, Equality — customised for your CIC in minutes, not days.
Policy Generator →Evidence funders want
Build beautiful surveys, collect responses, prove community need with data. Essential for grant applications.
Survey Tool →Write grant bids 10x faster
Paste the questions, AI drafts answers using your impact data, policies, and survey results. You edit and submit.
AI Grant Writer →
Your own AI CIC expert available 24/7
Ask anything about compliance, governance, or regulations. Get instant answers trained on CIC law.
CIC AI Expert →How it works
From chaos to clarity in three steps
Claim or Create
Claim your free directory profile, or generate your CIC formation documents if you're just starting.
Log Your Work
Text activities to WhatsApp. Send a photo. Record a voice note. We extract the data automatically.
Apply for Grants
All your evidence is ready. Paste questions into our AI answering tool and submit.
Loved by CIC founders
Join the community already saving hours every week
“CIC Tools cut our compliance admin from 3 hours to 15 minutes. The WhatsApp logger is genius — I just text what we did and it's all tracked.”
“The policy generator alone is worth the subscription. We had all 6 mandatory policies sorted in an afternoon.”
Questions?
A Community Interest Company is a special type of limited company designed for social enterprises. It has an 'asset lock' ensuring assets benefit the community, and must file an annual CIC34 report showing community benefit.
Your basic directory listing is included. Claim your profile, add your logo, and connect with your community.
Add our number to WhatsApp, then just text your activities: '12 young people at today's football session'. Send photos, voice notes, whatever's easiest. Our AI extracts the data and builds your impact reports.
Yes, cancel with one click. No contracts, no cancellation fees. Your data stays yours.
About the Founder
Hi, I'm Ben, the co-founder of Homeless Aid UK CIC. For over a decade, I've been out on the streets of the North West, feeding and supporting people experiencing homelessness. What started as a couple of volunteers serving 15 meals a week has grown into a team of 300+ volunteers reaching over 4,000 people every month.
Running a community organisation taught me something frustrating — the paperwork and admin can be just as overwhelming as the work itself. Formation documents, compliance deadlines, policies, grant applications — I spent more time on admin than actually helping people.
So I built CIC Tools — and I used it myself. I registered Homeless Aid UK CIC through this very platform, generating our CIC36, Articles of Association, and IN01 in minutes instead of weeks. It's the platform I wish existed when I started.
Everything a CIC needs to get set up, stay compliant, and apply for funding — all in one place, at a price that doesn't punish you for doing good work. This isn't built by a tech company. It's built by someone who's been in the trenches, knows the pain, and wanted to fix it.
If you've got questions, feedback, or just want to say hello — I'm always happy to hear from you at CICTools@CICTools.co.uk.
Ben
Free CIC Startup Checklist — 30 steps from idea to registered company
Get your free CIC Startup Checklist — the step-by-step guide used by CIC founders across the UK.
Free PDF, no spam.