I am working with a small English/Welsh charity (a CIO) who want to register in Scotland too. They don't have any staff or premises in Scotland currently although they may get a home based part -timer contractor in future. Although I don't think they need to register legally on the basis of current activity, they want to as they have been advised that it will be easier to apply to Scottish funding sources. My issue is that I can't tell from the OSCR if/how they can be a Scottish CIO and have parallel governance/operating in both regions - it seems to say you have to have Scottish premises to do this. So, will they have to register as an unlimited charity or a get a charitable company registration instead? We want the benefit to be proportional to effort involved.  Interested to know others experience of doing this and timescales involved.