{"id":918859,"date":"2018-09-04T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=918859"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:53:58","slug":"cic-to-a-cio-how-to-convert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=918859","title":{"rendered":"CIC to a CIO &#8211; how to convert?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did you know that if you are a Community Interest Company (CIC) you can apply to convert directly to a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_918860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-918860\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-918860 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/whichWayImage.png?resize=300%2C201\" alt=\"Cio governance conversion - signpost image\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/whichWayImage.png?resize=300%2C201 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/whichWayImage.png?w=483 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-918860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Which direction?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of August the Charity Commission have just published detailed guidance on what you need to achieve this change in your governance.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance offers five key steps to go through in order to change your organisation status.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: <strong>Prepare a conversion resolution<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/convert-a-community-interest-company-to-a-cio#step-1-prepare-a-conversion-resolution\">see more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: <strong>Adopt Charity Commission model constitution<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/convert-a-community-interest-company-to-a-cio#step-2-adopt-charity-commission-model-constitution\">see more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: <strong>Prepare a resolution adopting the CIO constitution<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/convert-a-community-interest-company-to-a-cio#step-3-prepare-a-resolution-adopting-the-cio-constitution\">see more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Step 4: <strong>Apply for charitable status<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/convert-a-community-interest-company-to-a-cio#step-4-apply-for-charitable-status\"> see more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also offered is guidance on what to do after you have applied<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/convert-a-community-interest-company-to-a-cio#after-you-have-applied\">see more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find full details of the advice pages here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/convert-a-community-interest-company-to-a-cio\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/convert-a-community-interest-company-to-a-cio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> There is a nicely detailed article by<em> Lucy Johnson-Cameron<\/em> available on the &#8216;final word&#8217; on the benefits of a CIO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiggive.org.uk\/advice\/what-is-the-final-word-on-the-benefits-of-cio\/\">just in case you are in mid-debate, see more here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are always happy to help in formative discussions about governance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?page_id=17\"> Contact us here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-822\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SocEntEastMIdslogoButton.jpeg?resize=231%2C278\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that if you are a Community Interest Company (CIC) you can apply to convert directly to a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO)? At the end of August the Charity Commission have just published detailed guidance on what you need to achieve this change in your governance. The guidance offers five key steps to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=918859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CIC to a CIO &#8211; how to convert?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,305,192,288,231],"tags":[26,258,307,306,59,308,7,289],"class_list":["post-918859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enterprise-start-ups","category-governance","category-news","category-socenteastmids","category-social-enterprise","tag-business-model","tag-charity-commission","tag-cic","tag-cio","tag-community-economics","tag-governance-change","tag-news","tag-socenteastmids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}