Establish a community service organisation
When starting a business or service it is important to ensure you comply with all the state, federal and local government regulations and licensing requirements.
A number of online resources will help you start a community service organisation.
- Developing your Organisation is an online wiki from QUT's Centre for Philanthropic and Non-prit Studies.
- Developing your Board is an online wiki from QUT's Centre for Philanthropic and Non-profit Studies.
- Starting your business is aimed at people starting a small business but much of its content also applies to non-profit organisations
- Licences and regulations provides links to information and forms for starting your organisation.
- Australian Taxation Office offers non-profit organisations relevant GST and other tax information.
- Incorporated Associations website (Queensland Office of Fair Trading) provides information to support organisations incorporated under the Associations Incorporations Act 1981. This website also includes a simplified guide to Queensland's Associations Incorporation Act 1981 and Associations Incorporation Regulation 1999.
- Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC) supports and regulates the corporations that are incorporated under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (CATSI Act).
