Stephen
Provided that you are simply transferring all of the assets and liabilities of your current charity to the CIO then there should not be a problem
But you need to liaise with Homes England about this
see above
1. Homes England
As a registered provider you have to contact Homes England to check that you have not had any grants from them in the past. If you have you have to send them a letter asking them to approve the transfer to the CIO (- I will send you the one we are using.) They discovered more grants that we were not aware of. Due to problems this has taken 2 years so far ā€“ the main being our slow solicitors plus the fact that we need permission from the Charity Commission to release the permanent endowment of one of the charities under section 105 the other almshouses have been transferred under a vesting declaration whereby The Charity Trustee makes this declaration under section 310 of the Charities Act 2011 (as modified by regulation 61 of the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/3012)) to vest all the Property of the Transferors in the Transferee.
I would be very happy to share our Homes England contact which is Holly Jacobs
Email: Grant_Notifications@homesengland.gov.uk
She understands the situation
Happy to chat to you about it and share the holding letter we are sending them whilst we transfer the Almshouse property at the Land Registry from the Official Custodian of Charities to the CIO
William Clemmey
chiefofficer@municipal-charities.org.uk