We are an excepted church charity but we want to be a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). Does this make any difference to the registration requirement?
The Charity Commission is planning to launch a public consultation about CIOs during September 2008. We will be seeking and considering responses to this before the new CIO is available and before the model governing documents for CIOs are finalised. We currently hope that CIOs will become an option during the spring/summer of 2009. Where a previously excepted church charity has a duty to apply for registration AND it is not currently governed by an Act of Parliament or Church Measure, we will permit it to delay making the application until towards the end of the allotted time-frame. However, we need to complete the programme of church registration requirements by 1 October 2009. Therefore if there is any delay in the launch of the CIO we may have to revise our position. Charities choosing to become CIOs will be required to register and submit annual information to us whatever their income. Neither the 100,000 nor the 5000 income threshold will apply to any church charity that chooses
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