This 50-minute webinar will stop you from procrastinating on setting up that Community Interest Company you’ve been thinking about doing for a while.
• It will give you a framework for putting together that good cause that you are so passionate about.
• It will inspire you to do the fantastic community work you love to deliver.
• It will help you to help people you care about.
Discover how to achieve setting up your CIC compliantly, legally and in a fundable way without you having to work it all out yourself.
Thursday 16th April 2026 at 11am.
Live 50-minute interactive masterclass (with a Q&A)
Become a Community Interest Company Director and make the world a better place!
Let me guide you through a proven process to establish your CIC.
Simple and logical 7 steps to take you from non-profit idea to formal registration and beyond.
Cut the time wasting and frustrating waffle online and understand how to create a CIC legally and compliantly.
Inside this free masterclass, you will discover the best way to establish a legal, compliant and fundable Community Interest Company.
• Ensure a CIC legal structure is right for you.
• Understand the process of registration on HMRC website, Companies House and with the CIC regulators.
• Understand the documentation and data required to make a formal CIC registration.
• Know which banking processes are best for you.
• Understand the Financial, Marketing and Funding Strategies necessary for a successful organisation.
• Get Bid Ready so that you can apply for grant funding you are eligible for.
• Have the right infrastructure, business documents and data to create a full business plan for CIC investment.
Attending this webinar will stop you putting this off any longer, so that you can effortlessly create the organisation you have been wanting to establish for some time.
The lack of and conflicting information as well as understandable low confidence, has been holding you back, attending this simple 50 minute webinar is a 7-step solution to crush it and achieve the CIC you desire.
The webinar will give you the courage to set up your CIC, which will save you time and money and generate the compliant, legal and fundable CIC you want.
On this masterclass I will share the tried and tested method which I have used lots of times to set up a legal, compliant and fundable Community Interest Company.
On the session, you’ll discover:
• The 7-Stage Formula to follow to ensure you set up what you and your beneficiaries need and want.
• Hints and tips for ensuring your CIC is legal and compliant for you and your beneficiaries.
• The best way to set up your CIC in a fundable way for making grant applications as well as when setting up corporate and community fundraising schemes.
Wendy has been working with nonprofits since 1992 and has been setting up CIC and CIO organisations since 2020. She has made the mistakes she wants you to avoid, she has put in the time and energy to understand legal requirements and has studied the HMRC website to ensure that the CICs she sets up are legally recognised, compliant and fundable.
Wendy can advise you on whether a CIC is the right structure for what you want to achieve, as well as guiding you through the company set up process. She does this in an online group training session format or on a 121 consultancy basis, online or in person.
Wendy passes on her knowledge of dealing with numerous funders and how to comply with their eligibility requirements to increase your chances of being awarded grant funding.
Wendy is able to ensure you are ready to apply for grant funding, preparing you in your first year of trading for seed funding and set up grants with the information that funders will request with your funding applications.
Wendy can lead you through a funding strategy – analysing your income streams and overheads/costs and identifying the funding gaps and how best these are filled.
Wendy shares a vast network of business owners who also work with start ups and nonprofit organisations to support you with the specialist areas of your business, such as finance, administration systems, marketing and HR.
You should attend this masterclass if:
• You have an idea for an amazing social enterprise or community group but don’t know how to set it up.
• You are curious about how a CIC is set up and operates and have some questions to ask before you go ahead.
• You are keen to help within your community as you can see that you can help, but you aren’t sure how.
• You have already set up a CIC, but done nothing with it since and you aren’t sure what to
Register for free