Hi all, hoping someone out there may have done an excepted charity to CIO transition. We are a baptist church (excepted charity) moving to a new CIO model (association). The current body has trustees, which I am assuming cannot just ‘transfer’ to being trustees of the new CIO. Is this correct? If so then the CIO needs to go through its declared process of appointing trustees, even though it is not yet technically in operation. 

Assuming there is no ‘catch 22’ here of needing to be a live CIO in order to exercise the appointment process, can we just use the CIO appointment process to get to the point where the governance body is in place and ready for transition from excepted charity? Many thanks