The following information is taken from the Charity Commission website and provides detailed guidance about trustee roles and the board. These guides are essential reading for current and would-be trustees to help understand the roles and responibilities of individual trustees and the board as a whole, especially around accountability and liability. You can also sign up to receive email updates regarding any changed to content as the guidance is reviewed.
Introductory reading
Forms
- Charity trustee: declaration of eligibility and responsibility
- Change your charity’s governing document
- Change your charity’s name
- Remove a charity from the charities register
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
