Sexpression:UK CIO Constitution Last updated: 13th August 2025 Signed by: Megan Suckling, Chair of Trustees, 30/05/2026

1. Name

The name of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation (“the CIO”) is Sexpression:UK

2. National location of principal office

The principal office of the CIO is in England

3. Objects

The Objects of the CIO are:

To promote the health and well-being of young people throughout the UK with specific focus on  improving young people's sexual health and relationship education (SRE).

Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for the  purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee  Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

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 to:

  1. borrow money and to charge the whole or any part of its property as security for the  repayment of the money borrowed. The CIO must comply as appropriate with sections  124 and 125 of the Charities Act 2011, if it wishes to mortgage land;

  2. buy, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any property and to  maintain and equip it for use;

  3. sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the property belonging to the CIO. In  exercising this power, the CIO must comply as appropriate with sections 117 and 119- 123 of the Charities Act 2011;

  4. employ and remunerate such staff as are necessary for carrying out the work of the CIO.  The CIO may employ or remunerate a charity trustee only to the extent that it is  permitted to do so by Clause 6 and provided it complies with the conditions of that  clause;

  5. deposit or invest funds, employ a professional fund-manager, and arrange for the  investments or other property of the CIO to be held in the name of a nominee, in the  same manner and subject to the same conditions as the trustees of a trust are permitted  to do by the Trustee Act 2000.

5. Application of income and property

  1. The income and property of the CIO must be applied solely towards the promotion of the  objects.

a. A charity trustee is entitled to be reimbursed from the property of the CIO or may pay  out of such property reasonable expenses properly incurred by them when acting on  behalf of the CIO.

b. A charity trustee may benefit from trustee indemnity insurance cover purchased at  the CIO’s expense in accordance with, and subject to the conditions in, section 189 of  the Charities Act 2011.

  1. None of the income or property of the CIO may be paid or transferred directly or indirectly  by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise by way of profit to any member of the CIO.