Guidance Notes

This guidance aims to provide a practical ‘how to’ guide for charities approaching their first virtual or hybrid annual general meeting (AGM).

This guidance will help academy trust boards to build their own board assurance framework and, once in place, to assess whether it continues to be effective.

Despite some tentative steps back towards normality, most offices remain closed, and ‘virtual’ meetings dominate our working lives.

This guidance note focuses on return to work practices following the COVID-19 lockdown.

Updated guidance on shareholder meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic to reflect changes to the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act.

The Academies Financial Handbook (AFH) is one of the Department for Education’s key pieces of statutory guidance outlining good governance and financial management in academy trusts.

This guidance note will detail some of the most important roles that are required under the various reporting regimes, and their functions.

his guidance note draws upon experience of charitable companies limited by guarantee (CLGs) to help inform those involved with, or interested in, academy trusts to help develop understanding of the company and charity law aspects of members in a charitable CLG.

This guidance deals with the process of forming a charitable company limited by guarantee and should be read in conjunction with documents from the Department for Education relating to the establishment and running of an academy trust.