Today, commonkind, was officially registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) as a Public Company Limited by Guarantee. We are pleased with the progress we are making from evolving commonkind from a grass-roots non-profit to our goal of being a registered charity as recognised by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission (ACNC).
For the sake of transparecncy, we outline pertinent sections of our constitution below.
Our non-profit operations
In keeping with our history of operating as a non-profit, our constitution explicitly sets out that:
“The income and property of the Company must be applied solely towards the promotion of
clause 2.3, Constitution of Commonkind Limited
its objects as set out in this constitution and cannot be distributed, paid or transferred,
directly or indirectly, as a dividend, bonus or other similar payment or distribution to the
Members or officers of the Company.”
Our charitable objects
A direct extract from our constitution outlines our ambitions and scope of works as:
“The main object for which the Company is established is to provide benevolent relief to
people and communities suffering from poverty, disadvantage and distress by facilitating
community service activities for children, families and other interested parties.In furtherance of its main object, the Company may:
clauses 2.1 and 2.2, Constitution of Commonkind Limited
(a) organise, participate in, and conduct:
(i) structured community service programs assisting and providing resources to
disadvantaged members of the local community
(ii) public programs including education programs, social and community programs
and research programs;
(b) build and maintain relationships with welfare, social, educational, health, disability and
First Nations special-interest groups, professionals, organisations and established
charities and not-for-profits to provide structured community service programs;
(c) establish and maintain relationships and work with individuals, corporations, entities,
associations, foundations, institutions, organisations and groups including Federal,
State and Local Government instrumentalities, authorities and professionals that may
have related interests to the Company and utilise their resources and facilities to
provide and achieve the objects of the Company;
(d) encourage, promote and generally create greater community awareness in the
knowledge and understanding of the objects of the Company;
(e) disseminate information relating to education and community programs and produce,
edit, publish, issue, sell, circulate and preserve such papers, periodicals, books,
circulars and other literary matters as are conducive to these objects;
(f) seek and coordinate funding from the public, Federal, State and Local Government
and the private sector in the form of grants, gifts, donations and bequests committed
to the objects of the Company;
(g) administer one or more funds into which all gifts, contributions, donations and
bequests to the Company for the purposes of the Company will be credited; and
(h) do all things that further, are in aid of, or are ancillary or incidental to any of the
Company’s objects”
About commonkind
We provide benevolent relief to people and communities suffering from poverty, disadvantage and distress by facilitating age-appropriate community service activities for children, families and other interested parties.
Get in touch!
Whether you are a charity with a task that might be suitable or you are interested in helping us create a kinder and more connected community, we’d love to hear from you. Get in touch with us here.
