Exclusivity
A registered charity must have exclusively charitable purposes and activities. This means that a registered charity may not have any purposes that are not charitable. It also means that all the activities of the charity must further its charitable purposes.
Precision
To be eligible for registration, a charity must describe its purposes precisely so that each one is clear and restricts the organization to only charitable activities. Language that is broad and vague could include non-charitable purposes and allow for the pursuit of non-charitable activities, which would not meet the requirement of exclusivity.
Activities
The activities of the organization must directly further its charitable purpose(s). Activities gain their charitable character from the purposes that they are intended to further. As such, selecting purposes from this list is only one part in the application process. The activities of the organization must bear a relationship to its charitable purposes and must be a reasonable means of achieving them.
