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This form enables you to prepare a set of Articles of Association for a FairShares V3.2 Commons Company to register under Company Law. If you want to create rules for cooperative associations, cooperative societies or partnerships, please use a different form. The initial process of answering questions in English normally takes 10-20 minutes.

Starting a FairShares enterprise is treated as "a substantial and lasting contribution to the promotion, dissemination, development or administration of the FairShares Model and/or FairShares Association". This means you will meet the association's qualifying criteria for User Membership if you start a company using the rules you generate.

FairShares IP is licensed using Creative Commons. Therefore, as a condition of use, the information you enter will be added to a FairShares database so that members can use it to develop services (like this one) and undertake research into how FairShares is used.

The applicable licence is: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

You do not have to pay anything - this is a free service. The service guides you through the process of configuring the FairShares Model to fit your needs. Some knowledge of creating constitutions for organisations is helpful, but not essential. Knowledge of the FairShares Model definitely helps (see the Introductory self-study course at https://fairshares.education).  

The answers you give will be used to generate your FairShares Commons Company rules. You will receive a Word Document containing your Articles (free of charge).