A thank you to all trustees
A thank you to all trustees
As we begin Trustees’ Week 2024, David Holdsworth thanks the hundreds of thousands of trustees in England and Wales who take on this role for the good of others.
Refining our regulatory approach
...of an Effective Charity and instead endorse and promote the code as the go-to good governance guide. We’re also conducting research with Cass Business School and the Cranfield Trust to...
Charities, good governance, and International Women’s Day
...have seen a shift in awareness of governance, a growing understanding of the difference good governance makes to charities’ ability to meet their mission. The Commission has been banging the...
The changing face of the Governance Code
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People become charity trustees because they believe in something and want to make a difference. They don’t want to waste their time on bureaucracy. But nor do they want their efforts wasted by ineffectiveness or undermined by the behaviour or …
Celebrating local charities and trustees
...smaller charities such as the Foundation for Social Improvement and Small Charities Coalition. As part of Local Charities Day, with funding from Office for Civil Society, FSI will be delivering...
Learning the lessons from reported charity frauds
The impact fraud can have on a charity’s good work, beneficiaries, and reputation can be immense. The National Crime Agency tell us that charities, along with individuals and the private sector, “lose billions of pounds each year to fraud”. Clearly …
What to do if your charity is facing financial difficulties?
The Commission is only too aware, through our casework and conversations with charities, of the financial difficulties that many are facing. Over the past year we’ve seen a number of charities, some high profile, get into financial difficulties – the …
Who can charities work with internationally?
...can solely describe: trustees properly assessing the risks of using a partner to deliver a project, putting in place steps to mitigate those risks, and ensuring money and aid get...
Our work in 2016-17 towards our Strategic Plan
...to exceed. We will continue to work with the Wales Good Governance Group to promote good governance in Wales, especially on the theme of financial controls and resilience. Priority 3:...
Campaign for all trustees to read The Essential Trustee: one year and 114,000 clicks later
It’s a year since we launched the new edition of the Essential Trustee (CC3) and kicked off a campaign to get every trustee to read it. And I wanted to share some reflections on this campaign and our results so …
Public Trust 4: our action plan on Governance
...Governance Code for the Voluntary and Community Sector. And the House of Lords is looking at Sustaining the Charity Sector and the associated challenges of governance – and should report...