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Latest Governance Good Practice
Peter Cardy: The perils of moving into an open-plan office
Sector veteran Peter Cardy offers answers to your workplace dilemmas.
Peter Cardy: How can we cope with a tinkering chair?
Sector veteran Peter Cardy offers answers to your workplace dilemmas
When good trustee boards go bad
The signs of a failing board can be evident long before a crisis hits. Liam Kay looks at the common problems and the action charities can take
Paul Gathercole: Peer review can help strengthen your safeguarding policy
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?
Sector veteran Peter Cardy offers answers to your workplace dilemmas
'The tribunal provides an important window into charities'
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
These are testing times for trustees, but do we expect too much of them?
Six ways to tackle your gender pay gap
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?
Good Governance Resources
Latest Governance Jobs
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Chair of Trustees
Prospect Hospice Swindon, Wiltshire
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Fundraising Trustee
Himalayan Trust UK Home-based
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Longmire Recruitment London (Central), London (Greater)
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Campaigns and Advocacy Manager
Longmire Recruitment London (Greater)
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Chief Executive Officer
Haemochromatosis UK Office based in Rugby, Warwickshire with option to work flexibly
Expert Hub
Insurance advice from Markel
Charity property: could you be entitled to a huge VAT saving?
When a property is being constructed, VAT is charged at the standard rate. But if you're a charity, health body, educational institution, housing association or finance house, the work may well fall into a category that justifies zero-rating - and you could make a massive saving
Latest From The Blogs
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The Whitehall insiders leading charities are partly to blame for the fundraising crisis
Earlier this year, William Shawcross, chair of the...
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Let’s get a sense of proportion about senior salaries
The bandwagon about the salaries of senior staff in...
Charity Law
Legal Diary: Don't drop this guide to charity law on your foot
The Charities Acts Handbook is a hefty tome for the sector to digest
Legal Diary: Grant-giving guidance expected later this year
Plus: Charity tribunal fees and quotes for William Shawcross
Legal Diary: The risk of challenging the regulator
Plus: Flouting the hunting ban
Analysis: When charities start taking the law into their own hands
Charities bringing private prosecutions is nothing new but could cuts to government budgets lead to more of them taking action, asks Rebecca Cooney
Rob Posgate: Fundraising report has put trustees on the spot
Sir Stuart Etherington's review means trustees should consider reviewing their fundraising strategies straight away, our legal commentator concludes
Peter Stanford
On being a trustee
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Peter Stanford: Numeracy is a key skill for trustees of charities
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Peter Stanford: Another dent in trust in charities
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Peter Stanford: Effective trustees can't just have 'strategic oversight'
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Peter Stanford: Charities should not obsess over data
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Peter Stanford: Taking government cash is no simple win-win
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Peter Stanford: For trustees, the hard work is ultimately worth it
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Third Sector Insight
Sponsored webcasts, surveys and expert reports from Third Sector partners
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How charities can make the right impact
For charities today the challenge is that...
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How charities’ workplace culture can prevent controversies
The third sector has never been under such...
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Cyber and data security - how prepared is your charity?
This report provides an overview of the current...