NCVO has launched a competition to recognise good governance, with £1,000 on offer to the winning charity.

The Winifred Tumim Memorial Prize, which is in memory of NCVO’s former chair who died in 2009, will assess charities in England on how they have used Good Governance: a Code for the Voluntary and Community Sector to improve their effectiveness and deliver greater public benefit.

In addition to the £1,000 first prize, two runners up will receive delegate passes to NCVO’s 2012 Annual Conference and a copy of the umbrella body’s Good Trustee Guide.

The closing date for entrants is 31 August, who will then be judged by the steering group for the Good Governance code.

Tumim is remembered for fighting to improve the standard of governance in charities and, as chair of NCVO’s charity law reform working group, laying the foundations for the Charities Act 2006.