Clubs, Unincorporated Associations And Risk: Thank You Dad

It's Father's Day. I visited my father today. We got talking about unincorporated associations. Clearly my chat needs to improve. It gave me an opportunity to rehearse my regular speech on unincorporated associations being, as a rule of thumb, bad legal structures to be part of. And that is the case whether we are looking at a charity or club or anything else.

In general, unincorporated associations are to be avoided when thinking about the legal vehicle for your organisation at its inception. Again, in general, all existing unincorporated organisations will wish to consider if they should escape the world of the unincorporateds and become a corporate entity - usually either a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organsiation or a company limited by guarantee. A Community Interest Company might be suitable for some organisations.

As I have gone through the reasons unincorporated associations are 'bad' and risky to be a member of once...

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