Registration

When would a non-profit organisation need to register?

Non-profit organisations (NPOs) are required to register with the JFSC if they meet the f­­­­ollowing definition:

A legal person or arrangement or organisation that primarily engages in raising or disbursing* funds for purposes such as charitable, religious, cultural, educational, social or fraternal purposes, or for the carrying out of other types of good works.

NPOs who are already registered with the JFSC do not need to complete a further application form.

*Definitions:
Raising - funds given to the NPO but does not include income earned on the funds of the NPO or amounts paid to the NPO by persons to become or remain members of the NPO

Disbursing – does not include the disbursement of funds paid to the NPO by persons to become or remain members of the NPO if those funds are applied in a way that only benefits members of the NPO. A disbursement also does not include a payment for goods and services. A payment is when you send funds for a specific agreed value for goods or services, where a disbursement is a transfer of money to a beneficiary to fulfil the objects of the organisation”.

If your NPO meets the above definition then it is required to register with the JFSC. You can register on myJFSC. NPOs who are already registered with the JFSC do not need to complete a further application form.

Our NPO Supervisor, Kate Rogers, talks through the registration process.

When would a NPO not need to register?

NPOs that fall outside of the above definition do not have to register with the JFSC, however they can register if they wish to in order to obtain an NPO number.

We collated NPO information from TCBs, in September 2021. Where a NPO receives a service from a TCB they do not need to register entities that were in existence prior to this data collection. Where we hold data on NPOs from that process we have registered those NPOs internally. NPO numbers for those NPOs will be communicated to the TCBs shortly.

Examples of NPOs who would fall outside of the definition are:

  • Political parties
  • Closed interest/membership organisations (e.g., membership groups that do not provide public benefit for the wider community, e.g., trade unions, parent teacher organisations, credit unions, professional associations such as STEP, ACCA etc)
  • Culture groups (e.g., book clubs)
  • Neighbourhood groups 
  • Certain thrift clubs, provided they are purely savings clubs (to benefit their members) or have a gambling element.

Submitting your form online

Non-Profit Organisation applications can be made via myJFSC

Deregistration

If you want to deregister your NPO, you need to complete a deregistration form and email this to our Authorisation team at least four weeks' before the NPO ceases to operate.
If you intend on closing down a company or legal person then you must also contact our registry.