Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) are a fundamentally new legal form for charities in England & Wales, under the Charities Act 2006. Registration of new CIOs (and conversion of existing charities) is now due to be possible from mid-2009. Once available they are likely to become very quickly the new legal form of choice in the vast majority of cases where new voluntary organisations are established where the organisation has charitable aims. This book is intended to provide the full range of practical guidance needed by voluntary sector practitioners to establish new CIOs or to convert existing charities to CIOs. This book is for: charity managers/coordinators/chief execs considering the CIO form for their own organisation; chairs of trustees, charity/company secretaries, treasurers; staff in infrastructure organisations providing advance information on setting up new organisations/governance issues/legal issues; community accountants and independent examiners; professional advisers (solictors, accountants, bankers) working with charities but who are not yet charity specialists; students on university courses concerned with the voluntary sector (undergraduate and postgraduate); university libraries and libraries/resource centres operated by voluntary organisations. This book includes the full text of the legislation and regulations for CIOs and model CIO constitutions. The book is published in assocation with Russell-Cooke Solicitors LLP

'This guide is an important step in the development of CIOs. I therefore warmly commend it.' Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, CBE, Official Reviewer of the Charities Act 2006 'This comprehensive treatment will be essential reading for people who want to gain a full understanding of this long awaited legal new form for charities.' Peter Horner, NAVCA 'Contains helpful and clear explanations of the accounting, filing and external scrutiny requirements for CIOs which will be of interest to treasurers, trustees and senior management in charities as well as charity advisors.' Anne Davis, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) 'The author has done an impressively thorough job of capturing the broad concepts of CIOs as well as the detailed provisions of the statutes and regulations. The subject is made both lucid and accessible.' James Sinclair Taylor, Partner, Charity & Social Business Team, Russell-Cooke Solicitors

The author is professor of Charity Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and senior partner of charity consultants The Kubernesis Partnership LLP. He is author of The Charity Treasurer's Handbook in the same series and The Charities Act 2006 (ACF).