Stepping Stones Childcare has chosen the move to Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) status to become a legal entity in its own right so that the group can expand more easily, without placing the burden on individual trustees
The St Austell charity currently offers affordable childcare to around 200 children over two settings, Mount Charles and Scol Kensa.
There are plans to open a third site before the end of the year, which will offer around 50 places.
Charity manager Julie Double said, ‘Previously, as an unincorporated charity, we were limited in how much we could expand because of the legal burden this type of charitable status placed on individual trustees. Becoming a CIO makes us more flexible, and this will support our exciting plans to expand. As an organisation we can now own property and enter into contracts, rather than the trustees doing it.’
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