Suresh Lalvani has prepared this checklist for company secretaries to keep track of their core duties and perform their role effectively.

This model job description lists a comprehensive list of duties you may choose to select from to bestow upon your honorary treasurer.

There is little shared understanding of the role of president. It is one of the least defined roles in all types of organisations whether charity, professional organisation or membership body.

All charities should, but most charities do not, ask potential trustees to sign a declaration about their eligibility for the post of trustee. This sample declaration form is an adapted and more detailed version of the declaration form for trustees which can be found on the NCVO website and which is used here with the kind permission of NCVO.