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Setting up and running a charity

Trustee role and board

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The Charity Commission and Welsh Government
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Introductory guides

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

Essential reading

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

Detailed guidance

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

Other

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

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