This technical and good practice guidance has been developed through collaboration between experts and practitioners. It provides independent advice on a wide range of governance issues and practical specimen materials that you can adapt and use.
GOOD PRACTICE
- Governance and management - an overview for charities (updated)
- Managing conflicts of interest in a charity (England & Wales) (updated)
- Thinking about a charity merger?
- Improving charity boardroom behaviours (new)
- Charity trustee eligibility
- Charity trustee standards for governance and leadership
- Payment of charity trustees (England & Wales) (updated)
- Charity mergers: due diligence
- Charity mergers: post-merger structure
- Trustee board effectiveness (updated)
- Prospective charity trustee due diligence (updated)
- Charity trustee liability (England & Wales) (updated)
- Charity trustee recruitment
- Governing documents for charities (England & Wales) (updated)
- The role and duties of charity trustees (updated)
- The role and duties of charity trustees (Northern Ireland) (updated)
- Board evaluation in the charity sector (updated)
- The board evaluation process - visual aids (updated)
HOW TO
- How to build a charity board assurance framework
- Specimen charity merger documents: joint feasibility working party terms of reference and confidentiality agreement
- Amending charity governing documents (England & Wales) (updated)
- Charity merger or collaboration checklist
- Charity merger: finding the right match
- Change of member: A specimen checklist for charity secretaries in charitable companies limited by guarantee
- Change of charity secretary: A specimen checklist for charitable companies limited by guarantee
- Change of charity director: A specimen checklist for charity secretaries in charitable companies limited by guarantee
MODELS
- Charity trustee competence matrix (updated)
- Specimen cover sheet for charity board meetings
- Specimen strategic agenda for charity boards
- Specimen role description for the charity secretary of the board of trustees (Northern Ireland)
- Specimen charity board evaluation questions (updated)
- Specimen board observation sheets for charities (updated)
- Specimen conflict of interest policy, declaration form and register of interests for charity trustees (updated)
- Specimen charity trustee declaration (updated)
- Specimen induction pack for charity trustees (updated)
- Specimen letter to be sent on appointment to a trustee (and director) of a charitable company limited by guarantee (updated)
- Specimen letter to be sent on appointment to a trustee of an unincorporated charity
- Specimen code of conduct for charity trustees (England & Wales) (updated)
- Specimen role description for a charity treasurer (England & Wales) (updated)
- Specimen role description for charity trustees (England & Wales) (updated)
- Specimen role description for the charity secretary of the board of trustees (updated)
- Specimen role description for chair of the board of charity trustees (updated)
- Matters reserved for the board of trustees (updated)
- Specimen skills register for charity trustees (updated)
- Specimen board meeting etiquette (not-for-profit organisations) (updated)
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