Setting up and running a charity

Trustee role and board: detailed information

• From: The Charity Commission and Welsh Government

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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