Charitable rate relief

Charities and community amateur sports clubs can apply for charitable rate relief of up to 80% if a property is used for charitable purposes. 

You may be able to top up the discount to 100% by applying for discretionary relief as well.  
 

Before you start  

You can get rate relief if you are: 

• A registered charity  

• An organisation that is registered with the Inland Revenue as a Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) 

• An unregistered charity – for example, church commissioner, registered society, boy scout and girl guide associations, voluntary school or organisation recognised as a charity for tax reasons.  

You will need  

• Business rates account number 

• Charity registration number and certificate (if registered) 

• Inland Revenue number and letter from HMRC (for Community Amateur Sports Clubs). 

Uploading supporting documents  

We may ask you to upload some documents. For example, evidence of your charitable status such as a certificate from the charity commission, letter from HMRC.    

• Accepted file types: Word (docx), Acrobat (pdf), Excel (xlsx), Plain text (txt)  

• Zip files cannot be uploaded  

• We also accept photos taken on phones and tablets and the following image file types - jpeg, gif, png   

• There is a maximum individual file size per document of 50MB  
    

What happens next  

We will either reduce the bill or let you know why we cannot.  We aim to give you an answer within 20 working days. Please check My transactions for updates.  

 

This form should take approximately four minutes to complete.

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