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Free CIC checklists
Four downloads, each written for one moment: starting a CIC, applying for funding, and filing your first CIC34. Enter your email and the PDF opens on screen straight away, with a copy sent to your inbox.
- Running a CIC9 pages, free PDF
50 Grant Ideas for CICs
Fifty fundable project ideas grouped by the funders that back them, with who each is for and what the funder scores.
- Twenty ideas for National Lottery Awards for All England, five under each funding priority, each with a typical ask
- Thirty more across Sport England, the Heritage Fund, BBC Children in Need, Arts Council England, community foundations and UnLtd
- The four Awards for All questions with their word limits, and the gates to pass before you write a word
- Running a CIC2 pages, free PDF
The CIC Funding Readiness Checklist
What UK grant funders check before they say yes, on one page.
- Pass the gates first: the bank signatories, eligibility and safeguarding checks that reject you before anyone reads your idea
- Make your case: who benefits and how many, evidenced need, outcomes rather than activities, and the community that shaped it
- Your CIC's funding edge: the asset lock, the community interest statement and the CIC34 as evidence
- Starting a CIC2 pages, free PDF
The CIC Starter Checklist
Every step from idea to registered CIC, in one place.
- Get the foundations right: the name, the structure, the directors and the community interest statement
- Register the online route: what Companies House asks for and what you upload
- Your first 30 days: the bank account, the policies and the records to set up straight away
- Running a CIC2 pages, free PDF
CIC34 Worked Example and Checklist
A fully worked simplified CIC34 for a fictional CIC, plus a section-by-section filing checklist.
- A complete simplified CIC34 for Greenway Community Garden CIC, a fictional example
- Activities and community benefit, written the way the Regulator reads it
- Consultation with stakeholders, directors remuneration and transfers of assets, each answered
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Grant Coach asks two or three questions about your project and drafts your answer to the real 300-word limit. You read the whole draft on screen before creating an account or paying anything.
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CIC Tools writes your CIC36 and Articles of Association from your answers. The questions are free to complete; you pay £29 when you download.
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