The cover theme in January is “widening participation”, exploring innovative ways of involving wider audiences, including those with lived experience of your cause, in your governance or operations. Barrow Cadbury Trust outlines its campaign with the Poverty Alliance to bring to life, through photography, the stories of 14 people who were unable to access affordable credit, while the skin condition charity DEBRA tells how it is putting service users at the centre of strategy through the creation of a member involvement network and a number of other initiatives over the past couple of years. Birmingham Museums Trust reflects on its experiment with a Citizens’ Jury in 2024. And our new columnist, Emeka Forbes, covers the importance of co-development of policy and services in his new regular column, Forbes’ Focus.
In Strategy & Operations, a trustee from Friends Provident Foundation urges boards to review their banking providers to check that their ethical credentials align with the charity’s values, and in Board Matters a training organisation called We Are Feminist Leaders explains why it pulled out of speaking at a charity sector conference after learning that an arms manufacturer was also participating in the event.
We have an update on the new Charity Governance Code, from the chair of its steering group, and in Law & Guidance, Higgs LLP offers some pointers for trustees of charities with women-only (or men-only) objects, in the wake of membership policy changes by Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute.
In People & Culture, Wellcome’s ethics lead writes about his invention of a pink puppet called Connie to transform ethics training across the charity, while in Core Functions, Ian McLintock provides an update on charities and AI, around what trustees need to know and do to make effective use of AI and keep their charity safe in an AI-enabled world.
And last but certainly not least, Final Word columnist Penny Wilson explains why non-charity sector trustees may have to work even harder than others in order to be good at the role.
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Opinion
Law & Guidance
Strategy & Operations
People & Culture
Policy & Public Affairs
Board matters
Core functions: IT/AI
The final word
