Risk

All charities face risk. It could be the risk of losing money, injuring clients, bad publicity, or losing key staff or volunteers. Risk is not always a bad thing, without risk there’s often no reward.

Carrying Out A Governance Review

Use this page to learn about the different types of governance review and what you need to consider when carrying out a review.

Safeguarding

This page shows you how to use NCVO’s help and guidance content to get started with safeguarding.
It focuses on the things the Charity Commission expect you to do, and tells you which Knowhow pages have guidance to doing them well.

Making Decisions as a board

Use this page to learn about the rules around decision-making and how to go about the process of making decisions effectively.

Reporting

The Charity Commission keeps a register of charities that must always be kept up to date.
Charity trustees are required to report to the Charity Commission on the work and the financial position of their charity annually.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Board level

Making sure your charity takes steps towards equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is a core responsibility for any board. Doing so contributes to good governance as set out in the EDI principle as part of the Charity Governance Code

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