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Registered charity 1168273 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promotes friendship by writing to those awaiting execution in the USA by providing advice and information about the issues likely to arise when writing; a publication that allows people to hear the voice of those on death row; and conferences that include speakers with personal experience of the justice system, death row, and the impact of violent crime on all those who are affected.

Objects

3. Object The object of the CIO isFor the public benefit, to promote the relief of suffering and distress to those persons who are awaiting execution in any state of the USA by the promotion of friendship by letter writing to such people, in particular but not exclusively by providing:(1) advice and information about the issues likely to arise when writing to people on death row;(2) one to one advice and information on making the initial contact with a specific person in the US on death row who has requested friendship, and for the life of the friendship and beyond, in particular when the sentence of death is likely to be carried out;(3) a quarterly publication that allows people to hear the voice of those on death row and deepens their understanding of the US justice system, and the death penalty in particular;(4) advice and assistance to make informed choices about giving financial and other types of support to people on death row;(5) conferences that include speakers with personal experience of the justice system, death row, and the impact of violent crime on all those who are affected, with an opportunity to exchange experience and knowledge with other writers.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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Leigh Woodside
• CAROLE ELIZABETH BUTCHER
• Deborah Murphy
• Edmund Faraday Conybeare
• James Ian Mason
• Patrick Francis Ballin
• RACHAEL MARTIN
• Susan Elizabeth Drysdale
• Tim Donovan · trustee of 1 other charity

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Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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