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Setting up and running a charity

Trustee role and board: detailed information

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Introductory guides

  • Charity trustee: what’s involved (CC3a)
  • Trustee board: people and skills
  • Charity purposes and rules
  • Managing conflicts of interest in a charity
  • Making decisions at a charity
  • Managing charity finances
  • What to send to the Charity Commission and how to get help

Essential reading

  • Public benefit: rules for charities
  • Charity meetings: making decisions and voting
  • Prepare a charity trustees' annual report
  • Payments to charity trustees: what the rules are
  • 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
  • Safeguarding and protecting people for charities and trustees

Detailed guidance

  • The essential trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do (CC3)
  • 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

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