Clarifying trustee payments and expenses 0

Governance | 1 Aug 2008

The Charities Act 2006 brought in changes which allow charity trustees to be paid for providing their charities with goods and services, and guidance published in June 2008 by the Charity Commission clarifies how boards should handle both these types of payments and general trustee expenses.

  • The principle of voluntary trusteeship remains central to trusteeship. The Commission’s updated guidance, Trustee expenses and payments (CC11), confirms this but also provides answers to the most common questions involved when trustee payment becomes an issue, including :
     
    when trustees can be paid for supplying goods and services
  • what to do about accountability and management of conflicts of interest
  • when it might be appropriate to pay a trustee for their trusteeship; and
  • what does and does not count as  reasonable expenses 
     
    Trustee expenses and payments is available from the Commission’s website

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