Federation Of Family History Societies

Consultation on Proposed New
Charitable Incorporated Organisations

The Charity Commission have just produced a guide to the Consultation Document on the new proposed Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO), which the Companies Act 2006 has foreshadowed. This has been produced in conjunction with The Office for the Third Sector (see below).

They ask for comments before 10th December 2008.

For full details regarding the guide see:

www.charitycommission.gov.uk/enhancingcharities/cio.asp

Charity Commission
PO Box 1227
Liverpool L69 3UG

Phone: 0845 300 0218

The Consultation Documents can be downloaded from The Office for the Third Sector website :

www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/third_sector/news/news_stories/080910_cio.aspx .

Alternatively to order a copy of this consultation document, please call 0845 015 0010 and quote URN 08/Z2 and the title of the publication. This publication can be made available in alternative formats on request.

There are two draft forms of constitution: one where the Organisation has members (rather like the FFHS at present) and another where there are no members except the trustees(a foundation model). The guidance itself says that there is no need to comment upon or to read the whole documentation:

“……… the draft Regulations and Order are, by their nature, technical legal documents. You may find all the information you want in the Executive Summary and Background, or you may be more interested in reading about the model constitutions, how a CIO will function in practice and what powers and duties the trustees will have…...”

For questions on the consultation, or to respond to the consultation, please contact:

Helen Morgan
Office of the Third Sector
35 Great Smith Street,
London, SW1P 3BQ

Phone: 0207 276 6031

Email: cioconsultation@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk

 

Maggie Loughran
Joint Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies