What do Charities do

When you apply to register your organization as a charity, you need to demonstrate its charitable purpose. Generally, the PCC will decide what your organization’s purposes are by looking at:

  • Your organization’s governing documents (for example, its constitution, rules or deed) – these usually set out its purpose or ‘objects’
  • Other types of evidence, such as your organization’s activities, annual reports, financial statements and corporate documents.

Some activities may not seem to be charitable, but are appropriate if they are to further a charitable purpose. For example, your organization may have activities designed to raise money so it can pursue its charitable purposes.

Once we decide your organization’s purposes are charitable, and that it is otherwise eligible, we register your charity. When we register it, we register it as a ‘sub type’ of charity, which reflects its purpose or purposes (for example, as a charity advancing education).

The Charities may have following charitable purposes:

  • Advancing health
  • Advancing education
  • Advancing social or public welfare
  • Advancing religion
  • Advancing culture
  • Promoting reconciliation, mutual respect and tolerance between groups of individuals that are in Pakistan
  • Promoting or protecting human rights
  • Advancing the security or safety of Pakistan or the Pakistani public
  • Preventing or relieving the suffering of animals
  • Advancing the natural environment
  • Other similar purposes ‘beneficial to the general public’ (a general category)