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What's required of a charity trustee, including your responsibilities to your charity.
1. About this guidance This guidance explains the key duties of all…
What to do to protect people who come into contact with your charity through its work from abuse or mistreatment.
Guidance for charity trustees about serious incidents: how to spot them and how to report.
How to get the right people with the right skills on your charity's trustee board.
Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.
The recruitment, appointment and induction process for new charity trustees and how to set a framework for recruitment.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
Find out how to make sure that your charity’s money is safe, properly used and accounted for.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
Find out how to identify and deal with conflicts of interest in your charity.
How to hold charity trustee and member meetings, including AGMs, so you can make decisions legally and your charity can run effectively.
Guidance for individuals about automatic disqualification rules, what to do if you become disqualified and how to apply for a waiver.
How to apply to remove a trustee’s legal name from public display on the charity register in England and Wales (known as a dispensation).
How a person can be disqualified as a charity trustee, and key checks to make of registers of removed trustees.
Find out about making valid trustee decisions that are in your charity’s best interests.
Find out what your charity must send to the Commission and what services to use to help you get things right.
This guide gives some examples of types of personal benefit.
Guidance for councils and other local authorities that are trustees of charities.
Find out how charity service users can help to develop the charity's services by being trustees.
Charity Commission guidance for charities established with a religious purpose.
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