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MEET THE TEAMYes, but there are no advantages!
A charity has to have purely charitable purposes but a CIC can be established for any lawful purpose, as long as its activities are carried out for the benefit of the community. However, even if a CIC has exclusively charitable purposes it cannot be a charity.
Some of the features of a CIC are that it:
Therefore, there are no advantages to establishing your existing charity as a CIC, or even thinking of establishing a CIC instead of a charity. If you are worried about trading I would recommend establishing a normal trading company and then gift aid any profits back to the Charity.