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How do you appraise a board of volunteers?
Emma Duke, chair of Connection Support, shared her reflections from her board’s recent chair and trustee appraisal process. Everyone has an appraisal, right? But when you’re a volunteer…
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What does the trustee/staff balance look like in an era of turbulence?
It is fantastic that we have just released the updated ‘A Question of Balance’. It has always been one of our flagship publications, read and digested by countless…
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Recruiting young trustees
This blog is based on an interview with Robert Laycock, trustee and chair of Youth Focus North East, about their recent drive to get younger trustees on board.…
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What shared leadership and support looks like on boards
A chair should never be the single point of failure on a board. But with such responsibilities from agenda setting to board cadence, the accumulation of tasks, responsibility…
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Proud to be and support small
Small charities make a massive difference, serving thousands of people, causes, and communities. Small Charity Week is a moment to focus on all that these organisations do and…
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Being a young trustee: What I learned (and what boards should think about)
Guest blog by Kirsty McEwen, a Partner at Higgs LLP and Head of Charity & Not for Profit. She is a charity lawyer specialising in governance, constitutional and…
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Boards, the CEO, and the senior leadership team – working well together
Effective board and senior leadership team (SLT) relations have hallmarks, things that you can feel at work and are sustained by positive behaviours. In this article, by governance…
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Helping your chair and board to be more effective
This is the second blog by Liz Lowther, CEO of AoC, about this research. Read the first blog. In my last blog we explored the AoC, ACEVO and…
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Board behaviours and the chair – CEO relationship
Recent research undertaken by AoC, ACEVO, and nfpResearch looked into board behaviours and dynamics and the chair-CEO relationship. Here, AoC CEO Liz Lowther explores some of the findings…