Trusting the Trusted!

One aspect of Charity Law and Corporate Governance? demands ?that your Trustees must make decisions based only on what’s best for the organisation.

Conflicts of interest are real elephant traps.

All trustees have a legal duty to act only in the best interests of their charity. The Charity Commission expects trustees to take appropriate steps in line with their guidance to ensure that they can do this.?

Trustees cannot allow their personal interests, or the interests of people or organisations connected to them, to influence these decisions.

Recent high publicity cases continue to expose shortcomings and illegal practices which inevitably bring charitable and not for profit ?organisations into public disrepute with high media coverage. This has a toxic knock-on impact for other trustees, staff, volunteers and of course can put valuable funding sources in jeopardy.

The existence of a conflict of interest does not reflect on the integrity of the affected trustee, so long as it is properly addressed .

But of course, there are wider complex issues too.

Conflicts of Interest -And Much More Beyond!

Our full one-day training course -Charity Law and Corporate Governance – puts a spotlight on “conflict of interests” as well as numerous other complex topics.?

Participants will come away not only with a clear idea about the two common types of conflict of interest: financial conflicts and loyalty conflicts but also:-?

·???????? The Charities Act and related legislation

·???????? Key governance frameworks and regulations

·???????? The clear distinction between governance and management

·???????? The Public Benefit requirement- 13 examples of “Statement of Purposes"

·???????? The role of the Charity Commission

·???????? How the Commission work with other inspection bodies

·???????? The Charity Governance code -7 principles-including conflict of interest

·???????? How these principles apply to any charity or organisation

·???????? Managing risk and new regulations on fund raising

·???????? The importance of related policies to stakeholders-Nolan Principles

·???????? Reporting requirements

·???????? Sources of further information and support

The course comes with a takeaway self-assessment guide for people to test their own organisation in six key audit areas.

Similar courses are available for:-

• Governing Bodies- Schools and Colleges
• Non Executive Directors -Corporate and other Public Bodies

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