Help with club registration

stani101

Please if anyone can point me in the right direction I will be most grateful.

My friends and I are interested in setting up a club. It is going to be a non-profit club, where we meet once every month and just shoot the breeze or talk about issues relevant to us/society/ Once in a while we intend to host seminars where we will get speakers from all works of life to address us and invitees (the wider public) on a topic chosen by us.

I have contacted the CRO and they advised me they only deal with companies.

Could anybody point me in the right direction?

Thanks

(insert name)

Office of the Registrar of Friendly Societies

Organisation:
Office of the Registrar of Friendly Societies Address:
Parnell House, Parnell Square, Dublin 1 Name:
William Reid Telephone:
01 8045499 FAX:
01 8045498 Email:
will_reid@entemp.ie Web Address:

BuffyBot

Moved from Kildare forum to the only semi-relevant one I can think of

stani101

thanks

antoinolachtnai

Well, you are a club just by saying you are one. You are what I think is known as an 'unincorporated association'. You could 'incorporate' and become a limited company, but it costs more money and has bureaucratic hassles.

Friendly Societies - deals with cooperatives. You could register at this, but it's basically similar to registering a company. Still, it might be worth talking to them.

I advise that you keep this is as simple as possible. See if you can find a solicitor or someone who knows a solicitor from among your number to sort this out. It might be worth putting a constitution in place, so the ground rules are set.