Notification of changes made to your Charity
Section 17 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 (*).
Charity name
Charity Commission for England
Scottish Charity Number and Wales number (if relevant)
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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, a 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*
Tel no.
Fax no.
Mobile no.
Email address (we will contact you
by email unless you ask us not to)
Postcode*
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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 ofce if you are a SCIO) entered under question 1a
are different from those in the Register, please conrm 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 ofce details from the charity’s
entry on the Scottish Charity Register. We can only exclude the principal ofce 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 noted at question 1a.
Title First name
Last name
Address
Tel no.
Fax no.
Mobile no.
Email
Postcode
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Q3. Details of the notification
Please tick the appropriate box to indicate the type(s) of change being notied and complete the
appropriate section of the form indicated:
contact details as set out in the Scottish Charity Register (go to section 1c)
charity has changed its name (go to section 6)
charity has changed its constitution – including reorganisations (go to section 7)
charity has amalgamated with another body (go to section 8)
charity has wound-up or dissolved – including reorganisations – (go to section 8)
an administration order for winding-up made by the Court in respect of the charity
(go to section 9)
the appointment of a receiver in respect of any of the charity’s property
(go to section 9).
Q4. Please state the date the change, action, order or appointment took effect
D D M M Y Y Y Y
Q5. Have you sought OSCR’s consent to the changes you are
Yes No
notifying us of?
If yes, please ensure you submit the evidence requested in your letter of consent.
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Q6. Charity name change
Q6a. Notification of change in name of charity
If you are notifying OSCR of a change to the charity’s legal name, please provide details of the
charity’s new name below:
Q6b. If the name of your charity is not in English and the name is translatable, please provide
the English translation of the name:
Please submit the following documentation in support of your notication:
a copy of the updated or revised constitution showing the new name
a copy of the minutes (resolution) of the meeting where the name change was agreed.
Q6c. If you are notifying us of a change to the name by which the charity is commonly known
as, please provide details of the new name:
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Q7. Changes to your constitution
Q7a. If you are notifying us of a change to your constitution, please state what these
changes are:
Q7b. Please state which section(s) of your constitution have changed:
Please submit the following documentation in support of your notication:
a copy of your new constitution
copy of minutes (resolution) of meeting where changes were agreed
copy of evidence from other regulators or other bodies agreeing to the change (where applicable).
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Q8. Notification that charity has wound-up, dissolved or amalgamated
Q8a. Please state what action has been taken to wind-up, dissolve or amalgamate your
charity:
Q8b. Please give details of any assets or liabilities transferred as a result of the wind-up,
dissolution or amalgamation and the name(s) and charity number(s), if applicable, of the
recipient bodies:
Q8c. If you are a company, has the body wound-up at Companies House? Yes No
If no, please give an explanation why this action has not taken place.
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Please submit the following documentation in support of your notication:
final bank statement showing account as closed
receipt or confirmation from the recipient of any assets or liabilities that have been transferred as a
result of this wind-up/dissolution or amalgamation
final accounts (if available)
evidence from other regulators or other bodies that you require consent from (if appropriate).
Evidence that the body has been wound-up at Companies House (companies only). Minutes of the
meeting where agreement to wind-up, dissolve or amalgamate was made.
If you do not have any of these documents, please provide an explanation:
Q8d. Please confirm the name and address of the person or organisation who will store the
accounting records for the next 6 years:
Q9. Notification of any other changes
Please tell us of any other changes you are notifying us of. For example, any other change identied
in section 3, change in the accounting reference date, change in charity’s activities as held on the
Register, etc.
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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
It is an offence to knowingly provide incorrect information.
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 all necessary documentation?
signed and dated the form?
Please return the completed form and documentation to:
OSCR
2nd Floor, Quadrant House, 9 Riverside Drive, Dundee DD1 4NY
We will acknowledge your application when we receive it.
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