If you work with a number of other non-party campaigners, you may decide to establish a new body or organisation to conduct a campaign. The new body could be, for example, a company, a charity or an unincorporated association.
Provided that the new body is separate and distinct from the organisations that created it, then the body is treated as a different organisation from the campaigners that created the new body. As an organisation, the new body must be able to make decisions independently. This will be the case even if members of organisations that created the new body are part of its managing structure.
Campaign activity undertaken by the new body will not be part of a joint plan unless the new organisation works together with other non-party campaigners. Making a donation to the new body is not joint campaigning.
If the new organisation spends or plans to spend more than £10,000 on regulated campaign activity during the regulated period, it must make a notification to us and follow the laws regarding donations, spending and reporting. See When must you submit a notification to the Electoral Commission? for more information.