The committee members of a learning disability charity recently transferred all the assets and liabilities to a charitable company to protect themselves from personal liability without informing the membership of the unicorporated charity. A charity lawyer and governance consultant respond.
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Sarah Hodgkinson outlines the benefits that businesspeople can bring to trustee boards.
In this article Jan Masaoka looks at short-term and long-term strategies for trustees known as dead wood or worse.
Look around the table at the board meetings of many charities, and one familiar element will stare back at you; experience. Experience often comes hand-in-hand with age, but not necessarily.
David Locke provides tips on how to create a high-performing audit committee.
A charity chairman has been killed, but who's the culprit? Delve into a leadership nightmare in the second part of Shirley Otto's governance detective story.
A series of Charity Commission investigations informs this article by Neal Green, the regulator's senior policy advisor, who warns that charities can easily get caught up spending all their resources on fundraising, rather than their stated purpose.
When Baroness Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK joined the organisation in 2010, the governance structure left her confused. How did she tackle the confusion? With change of course.
A charity chairman has been killed, but who's the culprit? Delve into a leadership nightmare in the first part of Shirley Otto's governance detective story.
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