Transcription of The Essential Trustee
1 The Essential Trustee 6 main duties Comply with your charity's governing document and Ensure your charity is the law carrying out its purposes for the public benefit Act in your charity's best interests Ensure your charity is accountable Manage your charity's resources responsibly Act with reasonable care and skill The Governance Jigsaw The Essential Trustee (CC3). It's about knowing: It's about being: It's about: It's about: It's about: It's about: what your charity can familiar with your making balanced, managing risks, using your skills and meeting legal and can't do within its governing document informed decisions protecting assets experience accounting purposes (reputation) and people and reporting up to date with filing recognising & dealing deciding when you requirements how your charity is accounts, returns and with conflicts of getting the resources need advice fulfilling its purposes any changes to your interest your charity needs being able to show preparing for and benefiting the charity's registration that your charity ensuring Trustee having and following meetings public details complies with the law benefits are allowed appropriate controls and getting the and is effective what difference aware of other laws procedures being prepared to information you your charity is really that apply to your being accountable to question and challenge dealing with land and need (financial, making charity members and others buildings management).
2 Accepting majority with an interest in the It's not about being: decisions responsibility for, and to, being prepared in charity an expert - but you staff and volunteers case something does It's not about: ensuring that staff do need to take go wrong and volunteers are reasonable steps to preserving the charity accountable to the find out for its own sake board serving personal welcoming interests accountability as an opportunity not a bur
