Governance
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The Trustees Guide to Fundraising includes updated and revised fundraising information and details on trustee responsibilities, including changes in the law resulting from the Charities Act 2006 .
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This guide highlights the main points discussed in a seminar on trustees and fundraising. It includes successful – and not so successful – fundraising strategies, and the role of trustees in supporting the efforts of management and fundraising teams.
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This guide highlights the main points discussed in a seminar on the role of trustees in small charities. It includes guiding principles of trusteeship in a small charity, common challenges that boards of small charities face and practical tips for overcoming these issues, and for ensuring your board gets the right organisational balance.
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An NCVO guide to the key things to think about when considering setting up a subsidiary trading arm.
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If you are setting up a charity, using one of Charity Commission’s model governing documents will save time and speed up your application for registration. Each of these contains the basic provisions which many charities use .
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One of the most important tasks for a trustee is to know about their organisation’s legal and governance structure. This document outlines the various structures available to charities starting up or wanting a change in direction.
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This guide is designed to help you decide whether to set up a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), a charitable company or an unincorporated association or trust.
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This video from LawWorks takes you through the different types of structures available for charities, highlighting the positives and negatives of each structure.
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Our guide aims to help trustees of charities in England and Wales get trustee payments and expenses right. If paying a trustee, the Charities Act requires trustees to “have regard” to Charity Commission guidance as looked at in Section E .
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This Charity Commission resource gives guidance on employing trustees, former trustees or connected persons in paid posts within a charity and explains the do’s and don’ts. It lays out conditions that need to be met and procedures for doing so.
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This booklet contains advice from the Charity Commission on legal guidance and good practice of charity meetings. It is particularly useful to the Chair and Secretary of the charity, but all trustees are advised to read it.
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This guide has been produced as a practical tool to help groups to support and ensure that disabled women will be included and participate when planning meetings and events.
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