Key Guides: Minute Taking

This book shows you why minutes matter and how they are vitally important to all organisations to document meetings. This edition, updated by new lead author Kirsty Semple, takes into account both online and in-person meetings and the increasing use of technology to manage and preserve the integrity of minutes.

Using practical examples, the book provides essential, in-depth guidance on how to produce accurate, brief and clear minutes which meet all legal requirements. It includes many tips and techniques to ease the task of minute taking and to lessen the amount of time it can take to produce minutes.

Who should buy this book?

Whether you take minutes regularly or occasionally, or you are involved in managing or chairing meetings and want to be more effective, this book makes indispensable reading.

What does it cover?

It includes information about the:

• Importance of data management and security
• Implications of using technology to take, store and draft minutes, whether your meeting is virtual or in person
• Standing of minutes as regulatory and legal documents

‘As someone with little to no experience in minute-taking, I found this book to be a brilliant resource for developing my personal skills. It has been very useful in my early development, and the skills learned will benefit me throughout my career.’
Bethany Jones, Income Generation Assistant, Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin

 

‘This is a great manual for all those involved in ensuring that this vital aspect, of running an organisation well – clearly recording and understanding their decisions – is the best it can be.’
Andrew Purkis, Trustee, Directory of Social Change

Of the previous edition:

‘This book helps you to understand the utmost importance of minute takers’ role and how to communicate this to others.’ 

Elizabeth Crosley, Secretary to Group Head of Fundraising, RSPCA

 

‘Our trustees loved the book so much that they insisted that it was recorded in their own minutes.’ 

Andie Barlow, Principal Administrator, Institute of Family Therapy

Look inside

Have a look inside at the previous edition Key Guides: Minute Taking.

About the authors

Kirsty Semple

Kirsty Semple ACIS LLM is a governance consultant and is Director of Semple Associates Ltd, formed in 2001. She is author of Key Guides: The Board Secretary’s Handbook and Charity Law and Governance: A practical guide (2nd edition), and editor of The ICSA Charities Handbook. Specialising in corporate governance and compliance, Kirsty has provided consultancy, training and support to governance professionals and the boards of numerous voluntary sector organisations for over 20 years. As well as her work in public practice, Kirsty was Company Secretary of the disability charity Scope, and Head of Governance at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Paul Ticher

Paul’s whole career has been in the voluntary sector, mostly as an independent consultant and trainer working with national and local organisations. After working for some years as a volunteer in Africa and then with the Campaign Against Arms Trade, his focus of interest became information management, including such areas as the use of information technology and the management of information services. He wrote the first edition of Data Protection for voluntary organisations in 2000 to coincide with the Data Protection Act 1998 coming into force. Since then, Paul has been a leading trainer and writer on data protection throughout the UK, and he has provided bespoke advice to many voluntary organisations, large and small. For many years he has been recognised as one of the sector’s go-to
experts on data protection.

Paul’s other books, published by the Directory of Social Change, include the previous edition of Minute Taking (with Lee Comer) and Data Protection for voluntary organisations (4th edition). He also contributed the data protection appendix for The Complete Fundraising Handbook (7th edition), and published numerous articles and research reports into aspects of IT management in the voluntary sector.

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