PTA - registered as a charity?

[Mae1]

is your PTA a registered charity? If it is how did you go about it? Is it a long winded process? I raised this issue on Friday at our PTA meeting as the law states if you raise more than £1000 a year you must be registered - we're not! I was told "oh it's too long a process with lots of forms to fill in and the governors had to act as a guarantee and they refused! So we idn't do it" Obviously if we want to go on fundraising we now have to but was wondering how easy the process is!

[iota]

you need to have a look at \link{http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registration/default.asp\this} website.

It is a bit of a pain to register and you do need to find people to be trustees, but it does have advantages (gift aid, special rates etc)