Constitution & Policies

The following is an extract from the Constitution.

3. OBJECTS

The Objects of the CIO are the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage and science in East Sussex (which for the purposes of this Constitution shall include Brighton and Hove), in particular by assisting in the use, maintenance and improvement of archive services at The Keep, Woollards Way, Brighton BN1 9BP (“The Keep”).

4. POWERS

The CIO has power to do anything which is calculated to further its objects or is conducive or incidental to doing so. In particular, the CIO has power:

4.1     to support and promote the archive services at The Keep and to that end to invite and raise subscriptions, donations and contributions from persons and unincorporated and corporate bodies;

4.2     to raise funds (but not by means of taxable trading) in order to make grants   for the purchase of   documents of   an archival value and of equipment;

4.3     to provide assistance, whether financial or physical, in the conservation, digitising,   transcribing and/or otherwise   copying   of documents of an archival value   (whether held at The Keep or remaining   in private or institutional ownership, but so that the public might have greater access to such documents or copies thereof);

4.4      to act as a link between the public and The Keep including those using the facilities at The Keep;

4.5     to assist, by funding and/or by the provision of voluntary help, projects designed to increase the awareness of the work of The Keep, the role of archives, and the history of East Sussex;

4.6     to stimulate an interest in archives and the history of East Sussex by arranging meetings, visits, lectures etc;

4.7     to assist the work at The Keep by the provision of working parties and individual   voluntary   help,   including   the payment of     expenses to volunteers;