The Trustee Exchange one-day conference is an excellent opportunity for all trustees to benefit from stimulating presentations, workshops and interactive sessions to gain fresh insights to help your board operate more effectively and efficiently. The day also gives you the perfect chance to network face-to-face with other board members who tackle similar issues, share ideas and find solutions to develop best practice.

Governance expert Lindsay Driscoll has mooted whether the UK should explore the US model for trustees, where they are expected to fundraise, find contacts who would give and donate to their charity.

This course is an excellent way of becoming an outstanding trustee sooner rather than later. With lots of illustrated examples, covering topics from roles, collective authority and the three strands of governance, your relationship with the chair of trustees and the chief executive to understanding charity finance and governing without managing, this course helps you meet the Charity Commission's requirements for trustee induction. It also acts as a powerful refresher course for existing trustees who need to keep abreast of changes in legislation and evolving case law.

Confusion arises when a property dispute calls to question who the trustees of an ancient religious charity may be. Lindsay Driscoll and Paul Ridout respond to the dilemma in this case study.