By Leesa Harwood, Business Owner, By The Waves Charity Consulting — Governance, Trustees —
Being an effective trustee: five top tips
Leesa Harwood provides five top tips on how to become an effective trustee.
By Jonathan Orchard and Kate Sayer, Partners, Sayer Vincent — Finance, Finance & law —
The five major risks all charity board members need to think about
Our friends at Sayer Vincent provide an insight into risk ahead of our upcoming partnership event - the Charity Accountants'...
By Jay Kennedy, DSC Director of Policy and Research and Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC —
Don’t eat the bad fruit from the Garden Bridge tree...
...the failure of ‘a’ charity is not a failure of ‘charity’. One high-profile failure pushed by big name backers simply...
By Uday Thakkar, DSC Associate — Management, Strategy, Strategy and planning, Leadership, Management & leadership, Trustees —
Business and Strategic Planning - aiming for success: five steps
Uday Thakkar, DSC Associate, provides five steps for planning for success.
By Andrew Purkis, DSC Trustee —
The bargepole fallacy of charity governance – and why we need to fix it
During my career I’ve been a senior executive of five charities and Chair or Deputy Chair of another six, so...
By Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy & Public Affairs Manager, DSC —
#CharityFacts - the truths of sector tales revealed
We’ve all been there. Chatting at a family dinner or social gathering, and the ‘so what do you do?’ question...
By Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC — Policy, campaigns & research, Policy —
Diversity: simple steps to start change today
Everybody agrees diversity is a super important topic when asked about it. We all want to put the issue ‘front...
Governance, Trustees —
FREE BOOK: Financial Governance: a gentle guide for the non-financial charity trustee
When there are finance specialists on the board, a finance committee and a treasurer, why do all trustees have to...
