Getting started on the register

Searching the register for information about charitable trust boards and their status.

• How to search
• Searching our other registers

To incorporate a charitable trust board you must submit an application, along with the required documents. There is no registration fee.

• Things to do before you apply
• Trustees applying to incorporate
• Society applying to incorporate

Once you've registered your charitable trust board, you're required by law to keep certain information about it up to date.

• Law changes to help charitable trust boards comply with their rules
• Changing your trust board's address
• Changing your trust board's name
• Making changes to a trust or a board's rules
• Requesting a correction to the register

There are two ways to end a charitable trust board. If the board is no longer operating, it can apply to be dissolved. If it is unable to pay its debts, it can be placed in liquidation.

• Bringing a trust board to an end
• When a board needs liquidating

A trust board that has been removed from the Charitable Trusts Register can apply to us to be restored.

• Applying to restore a trust board to the register

Your online services account allows you to update and manage personal and organisation account details from your online dashboard.

• Setting up your online services account
• Updating your online services account details
• Confirming your authority to manage information
• Using the online dashboard
• Forgotten your RealMe® username or password
• Filing documents with electronic signatures

Find the forms you'll need to register your charitable trust board or keep its details up to date. Please note: there are no fees for registering or maintaining a charitable trust board.

• Forms for charitable trust boards