One in a Million
National Trustees’ Week is 10th-16th November and in the run-up to the week, NCVO are running a competition to win a ticket to their Trustees’ conference that kick’s off the week. Read on for details…
Governance Blog
The Governance Blog is of relevance to Trustees of charities, committee members of other Vol Coms, or to anyone interested in leadership and governance of organisations. The blog is written by Karl Elliott. Don’t forget you can follow this specific blog via RSS feed here.
“Charitable Purposes and Public Benefit”
All charities, and all Trustees need to be aware of, comply with and report on the Public Benefit compliance of their charity. Do you? Do you need to know more about this? Read some detail and advice on public benefit here.
Recruiting new Trustees
Recruiting new Trustees to a charity board is an issue for charities across the UK. We’ve got a useful Toolkit to share here along with some advice.
Trustee Exchange 2014 – what help might you need?
There’s a Trustee Exchange event coming up in London. But if you can’t attend, can you share your thoughts with us about what topics from that conference you’d like us to cover locally?
Charity Commission newsletter
The latest issue of the Charity Commission newsletter is out (Winter 2014). Have you and your fellow Trustees read it?
Do you make a difference?
A provocative article this week. As a volunteer trustee, if you stopped attending your board or committee meetings & stopped any other involvement with your organisation – would anyone miss you?
New Training Courses for Trustees
We’ve got three new training sessions now scheduled to support Trustees in Feb, Mar & Apr. Find out more about these cost effective ways to develop your board, trustees or committee members.
Start off on the right foot with your Trustees
Your Trustees (or committee members) are very valuable to you. They give their time and efforts for the benefit of the charity or organisation. So does your organisation give them back the support they need to do that role properly?
What questions should Trustees ask of themselves?
Julia Unwin (Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation) gave a speech at the Charity Trustee Network back in 2007, that is as relevant today as it was then.
Every Trustee or Committee Member should take a few minutes to read it through.
Julia considered the issue – What questions Trustees should ask.
VANEL governance and the Code of Good Governance
VANEL have reviewed our governance practices and we’re pleased to share with you what we’ve found.