From:  Troy Steadman 
Newsgroups: uk.legal uk.finance
Subject: Re: Incorporation for a non-profit website
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:32:44 -0700
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On 22 Aug, 19:42, Ian  wrote:
> On 22 Aug, 14:21, Troy Steadman  wrote:
>
> > Perhaps you want to set up a small charity. Such charities are often
> > companies "limited by guarantee". They can be quite fiddly and time-
> > consuming to run. You probably need a friendly accountant to start you
> > up - maybe one of your sufferers is an Accountant? You could also try
> > the local Rotary.
>
> It's an awful lot easier to set up a trust.
>
> Ian

Here's a company limited by guarantee that is non-profit-making but
has the most enormous trading arm and is not a charity:

http://www.lapada.org/

Here's a charity that is a *proper* charity. The Sisters of Mercy work
in Ghana and live in utter penury -their digs are  just along from
Brown's Hotel in the wealthiest parts of Knightsbridge:

http://dunkelddiocese.org.uk/dn-online/DN0199.pdf

Here's a charity in the health sector but they have recently moved to
France:

http://www.fdiworldental.org/home/home.html

Here's a charity I work for occasionally but I know nothing about
their accounts:

http://www.britishpolio.org.uk/

So how does your trust work, exactly?