Safeguarding your trustees

All charities have a responsibility to ensure they are working with safeguarding processes in place.

 

Safeguard the Charity funds

In the Charity Commission’s guidance ‘The Essential Trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do’ CC3;

it states that:

You must act responsibly, reasonably and honestly. This is sometimes called the duty of prudence. Prudence is about exercising sound judgement. You and your co-trustees must:

  • make sure the charity’s assets are only used to support or carry out its purposes
  • avoid exposing the charity’s assets, beneficiaries or reputation to undue risk
  • not over-commit the charity
  • take special care when investing or borrowing
  • comply with any restrictions on spending funds or selling land

You and your co-trustees should put appropriate procedures and safeguards in place and take reasonable steps to ensure that these are followed.

 

Find out more

Review our step 12 resource for further support and guidance.

Charity Trustee Welcome Pack – Clybiau Plant Cymru (EN)