Dear All,

This is my first post, and I've joined anonymously for reasons that will become clear. I agreed to become a trustee of a charity in severe difficulties when a further trustee resigned earlier this year because his resignation brought the charity below three trustees.  Prior to this, I was a simple committee member without trustee responsibilities.  The final two trustees have handed in their notice,  one of whom I am pleased about and the 2nd is one I'll be sorry to lose. I will start the close-down process as soon as I can.

I'd like to appoint two nominal trustees so that we remain quorate during the shutdown process, which will take several months.

Part of close-down will involve the sale of a property, so I don't want trustees joining just so they can stick their fingers into the pie.  During the sales process I want to try and recruit further trustees who were put off by the property issue; a building project that went wrong. I want to have a six-month hibernation phase before final closure after which any residual would be given away.   My ideal trustees would be members of "constructively competing" charities who'd greedy eye ALL of the funds, while we would want it to go to multiple charities in the sector.

The charity is an old non-incorporated charity, not a CIO. Is there any way I can create a "trustee joining deed" which limits their powers? I don't want them to be able to outvote me half-way through close-down and reverse an agreed decision.  I'd be looking to agree the major decisions with them prior to their joining up.