I am on the management committee of a community hall, which has an adjoining parking facility for hall users. Unfortunately this is not a closed area and is regularly used by local people who used the adjacent bowling club. We would like to develop a differential charging policy for both hall users and non hall users partly to generate some income, but also to resolve some of the disquiet this parking issues causes. The hall is governed by a deed of trust and there seems to be nothing within that deed to prevent us developing such a charging policy. Can you please advise.

Our organisation is currently a Company Limited By Guarantee. The project we are running is called LocalEyes (www.localeyes.org) and provides a comprehensive internet based toolkit to assist communities engage with sustainable issues & regeneration. There is a huge revenue potential from business advertising and we would like to attract VC investment. Obvously our present company structure does not allow for dividends to be paid. Can someone advise on the best way forward that will allow us to be a non profit distributing company on one hand but also to have a business arm that will attract VC investment.

I am working with a Charity who want to set up a social enterprise trading arm, they have asked if they can charge interest to the social enterprise as they are basically supporting it 100% financially prior to the social enterprise making any money. I am unsure if they can, but think that they might be able to charge possible management costs or admin support?