It may be necessary to form a Charitable Incorporated Organisation initially so as to fast track the registration process. The nclickable link brings you to the complete definition from which we have extracted what is pertinent ot our pursuit!
Greenwich Peninsula Historic Ships Harbour Trust
Everything on this site is provisional and is to be considered as "Work In Progress"
The present contact e-mail for this site is:-
londonmvs@gmail.com
Please note that the e-mail address indictaes only that MVS members including HQ are acting as honest brokers in getting the charity set up and the whole project moving.
The wesite HTTP://GPHSHT.WEBS.COM is a temporary identifier for the physical site.
At the moment it does not have a postal address but MVS is working with
Greenwich Borough Council to identify the location.
Management of the facility of a 'donated' pier/jetty on the Greenwich Peninsula by way of the charitable trust named named "Greenwich Peninsula Historic Ships Harbour", in conjunction with existing organisations: Swiftstone Trust, Steam Tug Portwey Trust, Massey Shaw Trust and the Maritime Volunteer Service HQ branch.
with a view to:-
a.) Restoring, or making seaworthy, valued vessels which should be plying the river instead of rotting in back-waters! This restoration ties in with training a new generation of [young] shipwrights lnked to existing educational establishments in Greenwich and elsewhere using voluntary & paid craftsmen.
b.) using the jetty and it's environs in every way conceivable to maximise the benefit to historic ships and their like and to introduce the public to appropriate maritime pursuits.
c.)
69A Charitable incorporated organisations
(1) In this Act, a charitable incorporated organisation is referred to as a “CIO”.
(2) A CIO shall be a body corporate.
(3) A CIO shall have a constitution.
(4) A CIO shall have a principal office, which shall be in England or in Wales.
(5) A CIO shall have one or more members. (6) The members may be either [be]—
(a) not liable to contribute to the assets of the CIO if it is wound up, or
(b) liable to do so up to a maximum amount each.
Schedule 7 — Charitable incorporated organisations
Part 1 — New Part 8A of and Schedule 5B to 1993 Act
(1) A CIO’s constitution shall state—
(a) its name,
(b) its purposes,
(c) whether its principal office is in England
(d) whether or not its members are liable to contribute to its assets if it is wound up,
and (if they are) up to what amount.
(2) A CIO’s constitution shall make provision—
(a) about who is eligible for membership, and how a person becomes a member,
(b) about the appointment of one or more persons who are to be charity trustees of the CIO, and about any conditions of eligibility for appointment, and
(c) containing directions about the application of property of the CIO on its dissolution.
(3) A CIO’s constitution shall also provide for such other matters, and comply with such requirements, as are specified in regulations made by the Minister.
(4) A CIO’s constitution— (a) shall be in English if its principal office is in England,
(5) A CIO’s constitution shall be in the form specified in regulations made by the Commission,
or as near to that form as the circumstances admit.
(6) Subject to anything in a CIO’s constitution: a charity trustee of the CIO may, but need not, be a member of it; a member of the CIO may, but need not, be one of its charity trustees; and those who are members of the CIO and those who are its charity trustees may, but need not, be identical.
69C Name and status
(1) The name of a CIO shall appear in legible characters—
(a) in all business letters of the CIO,
(b) in all its notices and other official publications,
(c) in all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders for money or goods purporting to be signed on behalf of the CIO,
(d) in all conveyances purporting to be executed by the CIO, and
(e) in all bills rendered by it and in all its invoices, receipts, and letters of credit.
(2) In subsection (1)(d), “conveyance” means any instrument creating, transferring, varying or extinguishing an interest in land.
(3) Subsection (5) applies if the name of a CIO does not include— (a) “charitable incorporated organisation”, or (b) “CIO”, with or without full stops after each letter.
69E Application for registration
(1) Any one or more persons (“the applicants”) may apply to the Commission for a CIO to be constituted and for its registration as a charity.
(2) The applicants shall supply the Commission with—
(a) a copy of the proposed constitution of the CIO,
(b) such other documents or information as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister, and
(c) such other documents or information as the Commission may require for the purposes of the application.
(3) The Commission shall refuse such an application if—
(a) it is not satisfied that the CIO would be a charity at the time it would be registered, or
(b) the CIO’s proposed constitution does not comply with one or more of the requirements of section 69B above and any regulations made under that section.
(4) The Commission may refuse such an application if—
(a) the proposed name of the CIO is the same as, or is in the opinion of the Commission too like, the name of any other charity (whether registered or not), or
(b) the Commission is of the opinion referred to in any of paragraphs (b) to (e) of section 6(2) above (power of Commission to require change in charity’s name) in relation
to the proposed name of the CIO (reading paragraph (b) as referring to the proposed purposes of the CIO and to the activities which it is proposed it should carry on).
69F Effect of registration as a CIO
(1) If the Commission grants an application under section 69E above it shall register the CIO to which the application relates as a charity in the register of charities.
(2) Upon the registration of the CIO in the register of charities, it becomes by virtue of the registration a body corporate—
(a) whose constitution is that proposed in the application,(b) whose name is that specified in the constitution, and
(c) whose first member is, or first members are, the applicants referred to in section 69E above.
(3) All property for the time being vested in the applicants (or, if more than one, any of them) on trust for the charitable purposes of the CIO (when incorporated) shall by virtue of this subsection become vested in the CIO upon its registration.
(4) The entry relating to the charity’s registration in the register of charities shall include—
(a) the date of the charity’s registration, and
(b) a note saying that it is constituted as a CIO.
(5) A copy of the entry in the register shall be sent to the charity at the principal office of the CIO.
69G Conversion of charitable company
(1) The following may apply to the Commission to be converted into a CIO, and for the CIO’s registration as a charity, in accordance with
this section— (a) a charitable company, (b) a charity which is a registered society within the meaning of the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965.
(2) But such an application may not be made by—
(a) a company or registered society having a share capital if any of the shares are not fully paid up, or (b) an exempt charity.
(3) Such an application is referred to in this section and sections 69H and 69I below as an “application for conversion”.
(4) The Commission shall notify the following of any application for conversion— (a) the appropriate registrar, and
(b) such other persons (if any) as the Commission thinks appropriate in the particular case.
(5) The company or registered society shall supply the Commission with— (a) a copy of a resolution of the company or registered society that it be converted into a CIO,
(b) a copy of the proposed constitution of the CIO, (c) a copy of a resolution of the company or registered society adopting the proposed constitution of the CIO,
(d) such other documents or information as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister, and
(e) such other documents or information as the Commission may require for the purposes of the application.
(6) The resolution referred to in subsection (5)(a) shall be— (a) a special resolution of the company or registered society, or (b) a unanimous written resolution signed by or on behalf of all the members of the company or registered society who would be entitled to vote on a special resolution.
(7) In the case of a registered society, “special resolution” has the meaning given in section 52(3) of the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965.
(8) In the case of a company limited by guarantee which makes an application for conversion (whether or not it also has a share capital), the proposed constitution of the CIO shall (unless subsection (10) applies) provide for the CIO’s members to be liable to contribute to its assets if it is wound up, and for the amount up to which they are
so liable.
(9) That amount shall not be less than the amount up to which they were liable to contribute to the assets of the company if it was wound up.
(10) If the amount each member of the company is liable to contribute to its assets on its winding up is £10 or less, the guarantee shall be extinguished on the conversion of the company into a CIO, and the requirements of subsections (8) and (9) do not apply.
(11) In subsection (4), and in sections 69H and 69I below, “the appropriate registrar” means— (a) in the case of an application for conversion by a charitable company, the registrar of companies, (b) in the case of an application for conversion by a registered society, the Financial Services Authority.
(12) In this section, “charitable company” means a company which is a charity.