Application for Consent to Change the Name
of your Charity
Section 11 of the Charities and Trustee Investment
(Scotland) Act 2005
Please read ‘Making Changes to your Charity on the OSCR website at www.oscr.org.uk
before completing this application form. Some of the information you give in this form will
become publicly available on the Scottish Charity Register. These sections are marked
below with an asterisk (*).
Q1. Charity registration detail
Charity name*
s
Scottish Charity Number*
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Q1a. Principal contact details
If the charity has a principal ofce, please state this address, along with the name of one of the
charity trustees (for example, member of the board of directors or management committee), or other
relevant person (for example the manager) as the principal contact. If the charity does not have a
principal ofce you MUST enter the name and address of one of the charity’s trustees. If the charity
trustee’s name and address are given, the name and address will be shown on the Register. This
is required by the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 (‘the 2005 Act’), unless the
charity considers that section 3(4) of the 2005 Act applies (see question 1d). If you are a Scottish
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) then your principal ofce address must be in Scotland.
Principal contact details*
Title First name
Last name
Position in the charity
Principal ofce or trustee’s address
Address*
Postcode*
Tel no.
Fax no.
Mobile no.
Email (we will contact you by email about
your application unless you ask us not to)
Please enter P or T to identify if this is the principal ofce or charity trustee’s address
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Q1b. Your organisation’s website address (if you have one)*
Q1c. New principal contact details
If the principal contact details (or the principal office if you are a SCIO) entered under question 1a
are different from those in the Register, please confirm here and please state when this change took
effect.
Q1d. Withholding the principal contact or principal office details from the Scottish Charity
Register
Please state if you wish to withhold the principal contact or principal office details from the charity’s
entry on the Scottish Charity Register. We can only exclude the principal office details from the
Register if we believe that publishing this information would be likely to jeopardise the safety or
security of any person or premises. Please refer to section 3(4) of the 2005 Act.
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Q2. Applicant details and/or correspondence address for this application
Please only enter details here if the applicant is not the same as the principal contact, or if
correspondence for this application should be addressed to a different address from the principal
contact address above.
Title First name
Last name
Address
Tel no.
Fax no.
Mobile no.
Email
Postcode
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Q3. Powers
Please state which clause in the charity’s current constitution will allow you to amend its name.
If there is no explicit provision in the constitution but you consider that you have the power to make
the amendments for some other reason e.g. under the Companies Act, please provide the details.
Q4a. Proposed new name
Please enter the proposed new name of your charity.
Q4b. If the name of your charity is not in English and the name is translatable please provide
the English translation of the name
You should ensure that the proposed new name is not an objectionable name. That is a name
which is:
the same as or too like the name of a charity; check the Scottish Charity Register at
www.oscr.org.uk to ensure that the proposed name is not already taken by another charity
likely to mislead the public as to the true nature of the purposes of the body or of the activities
which it carries on, or intends to carry on, in pursuit of those purposes
likely to give the impression that the body is connected in some way to the Scottish
Administration, Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, or any local authority, or with
any person, when it is not so connected (the term ‘any other person’ may mean an individual or
legal body such as a company)
offensive.
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Changing the name of a SCIO
From 1 January 2018 Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisations (SCIOs) and Charitable
Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) appear in the Registrar’s Index of Company Names, which is
maintained by Companies House.
Please read FAQs: SCIO’s on the Index of Company Names. If you require permission from
Companies House then you should send this to OSCR when submitting this application form.
Q5. Effective date of proposed new name
Please state here when you intend the change to the name to take effect (for example, this may be
when your next AGM takes place). The proposed date of change must be at least 42 days after the
date on which OSCR receives your application, as required by s11(2) of the 2005 Act.
D D M M Y Y Y Y
Q6. Other information which may be relevant to the application
6a. Please state why you are changing your name
Q6b. Will your charitable objects or purposes be changing as a result of
Yes No
your name change?
If yes, then please apply for consent to amend the purposes under section 16(2)(a) of the 2005 Act.
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Q4c. Please enter any other name by which your charity will be commonly known
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Q7. Consent from other regulators
Please tell us if you are registered with any other regulators or other bodies, and if you
require consent from them in relation to the proposed name change.
Regulator name Reference number
Consent required?
(Please tick)
Data protection statement
OSCR is a registered data controller in terms of the Data Protection Act 1998. Any information you
give us will be held securely and in accordance with the rules on data protection. OSCR processes
information only in accordance with its statutory regulatory functions under the Charities and
Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, and to inform research into the charity sector in Scotland.
Information may be shared with other regulatory bodies including HMRC, and selected information
will appear on the Scottish Charity Register. Further information about data protection is available
on the OSCR website.
Declaration
You may be committing an offence if you give an answer that you know is untrue or
misleading.
I certify that the information entered in this form is correct to the best of my knowledge.
I conrm that the information entered has been approved by the charity trustees and I am
authorised to submit this information.
Signed by one of the
trustees on behalf of all
Print name
Designation
Date
D D M M Y Y Y Y
Checklist
Have you:
completed all the sections of the application form?
included a copy of your constitution?
signed and dated the form?
included copy of permission from Companies House to use SCIO name (if applicable)?
Please return the completed form and documentation to:
OSCR, 2nd Floor, Quadrant House, 9 Riverside Drive, Dundee DD1 4NY
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