{"id":18316,"date":"2018-02-22T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=18316"},"modified":"2018-02-22T16:07:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:07:05","slug":"governanceweekly22feb18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2018\/02\/governanceweekly22feb18\/","title":{"rendered":"Governance weekly for 22nd February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>The weekly roundup from VANEL on good governance, charity trusteeship and non-profit leadership. News, information, resources and ideas. Complemented by our &#8220;aboutgovernance&#8221; online discussion space for leaders and trustees and our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/aboutgovernance\">@aboutgovernance<\/a> Twitter feed.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Only a brief update this week:<\/p>\n<p>The monthly Governance roundup from NCVO is out for February. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/2018\/02\/16\/governance-round-up-february-2018\/\">Read it here<\/a>. This month it\u2019s a practical set of advice on everything from safeguarding to whistleblowing. Negative stories about charities are doing the rounds at the moment in the national press, but there are practical steps that boards, chairs, trustees and managers can take to ensure their own organisations are adequately structured and secure.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/2018\/02\/16\/oxfam-and-haiti-next-steps-for-charities-part-ii\/\">NCVO also have an article here<\/a> addressing the current status of fallout from Oxfam and Haiti. Worth all trustees being aware of the current state of thinking that affects our sector.<\/p>\n<p>A reminder that VANEL are running <strong>\u201cInduction and Refresher Training for Trustees\u201d<\/strong> on Monday 5th March from 1.30-3.30pm. <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/event\/induction-and-refresher-training-for-trustees-4\/?instance_id=54237\">Details here.<\/a> Places are still available, so if you are a newish Trustee (or your board has new Trustees) then this quick two hour workshop might be for you.\u00a0 We\u2019ll go over all the basics that you need to know in order to be a good and effective trustee! Contact me (<a href=\"mailto:karl@vanel.org.uk\">Karl<\/a>) direct for information or to book.\u00a0 \u00a315 per person for members (\u00a325 for everyone else).<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re reading this governance summary this week, please also take a look at my <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2018\/02\/update-on-the-journey-towards-gdpr\/\">update on GDPR here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, more governance news from next week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Karl Elliott, Development Manager<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:karl@vanel.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">karl@vanel.org.uk<\/a> \/ 01472 287548<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/big-issues\/leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.vanel.org.uk\/governance<\/a> &#8211; for an overview of our resources and information<br \/>\n<a href=\"www.vanel.org.uk\/trustees\">www.vanel.org.uk\/trustees<\/a> &#8211; for the Trustee Network blog and information<br \/>\n<a href=\"www.vanel.org.uk\/aboutgovernance\">www.vanel.org.uk\/aboutgovernance<\/a> &#8211; private discussion space for trustees<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/aboutgovernance\">@aboutgovernance<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-18316\" data-postid=\"18316\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-18316 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our weekly roundup of news related to governance, trusteeship and leadership:  Some new useful tools to use when assessing your governance using the new Charity Governance Code and a vitally important update on serious incident reporting &#8211; something ALL your trustees need to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5,391,11],"tags":[139,516],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-4Lq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18370,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18316\/revisions\/18370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}