Governance Good Practice

Good practice, case studies, expert advice and tips for charity and voluntary sector chairs and trustees, including changes to the Charity Commission and charity law, legal forms and regulation & regulatory action.

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Latest Governance Good Practice

Paul Gathercole: Peer review can help strengthen your safeguarding policy

Tuesday, 06 Nov 2018

Clic Sargent and the Rainbow Trust Children's Charity have a mutually beneficial arrangement to scrutinise each other's safeguarding arrangements

Peter Cardy: They kept us in the dark. Should I resign?

Monday, 24 Sep 2018

Sector veteran Peter Cardy offers answers to your workplace dilemmas

'The tribunal provides an important window into charities'

Thursday, 13 Sep 2018

A decade after the launch of the charity tribunal, Judge Alison McKenna tells Stephen Cook why she believes it continues to prove its worth

Peter Stanford: We risk putting trustees through too much anguish

Thursday, 31 May 2018

These are testing times for trustees, but do we expect too much of them?

Six ways to tackle your gender pay gap

By Liam Kay, Thursday, 24 May 2018

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has a small gender pay gap, but research suggests that charities tend to pay men about 12 per cent more than women. So how do you bridge the gap?

Peter Cardy: Collaboration is hard and rarely works

Monday, 09 Apr 2018

Sector veteran Peter Cardy offers answers to your workplace dilemmas

Craig Dearden-Phillips: Charity governance is broken - and here's how to fix it

Friday, 16 Mar 2018

The independent leadership adviser says we have to admit there are problems, then change our ways, including allowing charities to pay trustees

Chair and chief: a delicate balance

Wednesday, 31 Jan 2018

The chair of the board and the chief executive of a charity must neither get too close nor too far apart for their relationship to work successfully, writes Peter Stanford