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"As a parent, you work towards achieving your children's full potential. Action For Kids does this for thousands of young people."

Lynda Bellingham supports Action for Kids

Governance Movers

Jim Emerson and Simon Thompson have joined the board of People In Aid, a London-based development and emergency relief agency network. Emerson is deputy chief executive and chief operating officer at children's development agency Plan International. Thompson is chief marketing officer at Lastminute.com.

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Governance

The latest news, opinion and analysis about governance and regulation for charity staff and trustees

Latest Governance news

Finance conference addresses accountability

9 May 2008

Charities should appoint someone at board level to handle transparency, the annual Charity Finance Directors' Group conference heard yesterday.

Company denied charity status sets up trust

8 May 2008

A healthcare company that was refused charitable status on the grounds that it did not provide public benefit has set up a separate charitable trust.

Help the Hospices Advisory Council appoints chair

9 May 2008

Peter Holliday, group chief executive of St Giles Hospice in Staffordshire, has been appointed as the first chairman of the Help the Hospices Advisory Council.

Fundraising regulator needs more members, says Hope

8 May 2008

The first annual review from the Fundraising Standards Board has prompted a warning from third sector minister Phil Hope that many more organisations must join it if self-regulation of fundraising is to succeed.

Scots charities profiting from new rules

7 May 2008

Small Scottish charities are starting to take advantage of wider investment opportunities permitted by new rules introduced in the Charities and Trustee Investment Act for Scotland, according to a social enterprise fund manager.

Governance Resources

Case study:

Rebuilding a board from scratch

Missing People started with a clean slate after resignations left it with only four trustees.

More Case study

Expert view:

Please don't cut the media budget

Too much scepticism could be making life difficult for your charity's press department.

More Expert view

Viewpoint:

Put your cause before conscience

Should trustees shelve their beliefs when deciding where to invest their charity's reserves?

More Viewpoint

Trustee talk:

The value of being a young trustee

Jack Goldfinch, founder and trustee of youth charity SE1 United, talks to George Mitton.

More Trustee talk

Regulation with Rosie:

Incentives

The Charity Commission's Rosie Chapman on the dangers of incentives.

More Regulation with Rosie

Keep it legal:

Fee-charging charities

From this financial year, trustees are obliged to include a section in their annual reports about how their charities' aims are carried out for the public benefit.

More Keep it legal