Finances for charity chairs
Our guide helps you to reflect on your charity’s financial governance, and outlines how to identify strengths as well as areas for development.
When it comes to financial leadership, the chair has no special responsibilities. All trustees are jointly and collectively responsible. However, your duty to lead the board in delivering good governance also extends to financial governance.
Our Financial Leadership in Small Charities guide contains a set of reflections to support you at the start of your chairing role by considering five key financial governance questions:
- How can I support trustees with their financial duties?
- What board arrangements will support our
financial governance? - Do we have a clear financial plan?
- Do we have the financial information that
we need? - Are key finance relationships working well?
In the appendix at the end, we offer a framework for you to do a self-assessment and chart your progress.
While the guide is aimed at those who are new to their charity chair role and who are leading smaller organisations, given that good financial governance is a lifelong learning endeavour, more experienced chairs and those of larger organisations may also find it helpful.
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