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Setting up and running a charity

Trustee role and board

From:: The Charity Commission and Welsh Government

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Introductory guides

Charity trustee: what’s involved (CC3a)
Trustee board: people and skills
Public benefit: rules for charities

Essential reading

Charity meetings: making decisions and voting
Prepare a charity trustees' annual report
Trustees' annual report template (SORP 2005)
Payments to charity trustees: what the rules are
Manage a conflict of interest in your charity
Disagreements and disputes in charities
How to report a serious incident in your charity
Charity trustees: resignation and removal
Why some individuals can't act as charity trustees
Making digital work: 12 questions for trustees to consider
Charity governance, finance and resilience: 15 questions trustees should ask

Detailed guidance

The essential trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do (CC3)
Safeguarding children and young people
It's your decision: charity trustees and decision making (CC27)
Receipts and payments accounts pack (CC16)
Trustee expenses and payments (CC11)
Users on board: beneficiaries who become trustees (CC24)
Charities and risk management (CC26)
Conflicts of interest: a guide for charity trustees (CC29)
Finding new trustees (CC30)
Incorporation of charity trustees (CC43)
Vicarious liability of a charity or its trustees

Other

Charities and charity trustees: school governors
Examples of personal benefit
Local authorities as charity trustees
NHS charities guidance
Payment and expenses for college governors
Registration of Welsh universities
Start as you mean to go on (RS10)
Trustee recruitment, selection and induction (RS1)

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