FFHS-NEWS The Charity Commission guide to the Consultation Document on the new proposed Charitable Incorporated Organisations

[News from the Federation of Family History Societies]

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 at cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
 
Maggie Loughran 
Joint Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies 
Email:  admin at ffhs.org.uk 
www.ffhs.org.uk 
 
 
 
 
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