Guidance Notes

Guidance for charities in using best practice principles to define the roles and duties of charity trustees – charity guidance notes and best practice guides.

Guidance for charities in using good practice principles to create governing documents.

This guidance aims to support and augment the recommendations contained in the Code and covers wide ranging aspects of charity governance.

This guidance note highlights the main ways in which a governing document can be amended.

This guidance note provides examples of positive behaviours that should help trustees to make constructive challenge and good decisions that further the charitable objects and lead to positive changes.

This guidance provides a specimen skills register for charity trustee boards and should be read in conjunction with other guidance notes in the charity series.

This guidance offers an outline to the charity secretary of a charitable company limited by guarantee of the information that should be considered when dealing with a change of member, who is also a director.

Guidance for charities in using best practice principles to understand charity trustee liability in England and Wales – charity guidance notes and best practice guides.

This paper seeks to outline the rise of environmental, social (or sustainability1) and governance factors (ESG) in the commercial sector and explain how they will become increasingly relevant to modern charities. It covers the drive behind the increasing use of ESG factors in investment decisions, reputational risks, environmental awareness amongst consumers and clients and the need to attract talent with different motivations to work.