Role Purpose
To have and accept ultimate responsibility for directing the affairs of the charity ensuring that it is solvent, well-run, and delivering the charitable outcomes for the benefit of the public for which it has been set up.
Primary responsibility and the leadership role for actively championing safeguarding good practice.

Understanding Governance
Governance refers to the systems and processes that are concerned with ensuring the overall direction, effectiveness, supervision and accountability of the charity. As the charity is an independent legal entity, it is the Board who have ultimate decision-making authority within the charity and who are collectively responsible for the delivery of its purposes.
Therefore, it is the Board who are the responsible and accountable body for the long-term direction and control of the charity - but the Board will delegate authority to the Management Team for the day-to-day operation of the charity.

Understanding Management
The Management Team are the charity’s employees (and such not members of the Board) who have received the delegated authority from the Board to take responsibility for the
management and running of the charity’s business. Through this delegated authority, the Management Team will implement the charity’s strategic aims and objectives.

Compliance
To have read and understood the charity’s governing document and ensure that it remains true to the charitable purpose and objects set out there
To ensure that the charity pursues its objects as set out in its governing document
To act at all times in the interest of the beneficiaries of the charity
To understand the legal responsibilities of a Trustee
To ensure that the charity acts within the law - as a charity, as an employer, in respect of equal opportunities, in the meeting of health and safety requirements and in respect of all other legal requirements
To ensure that the charity accounts for its activities to its funders, the Charity Commission, as well as the local community and any others as required.
To comply with the requirements of other legislation and other regulators (if any) which govern the activities of the charity
To ensure that the charity manages its affairs reasonably and properly.

Prudence
To ensure that all charity money and assets are prudently managed and used in pursuit of the objects of the organisation
To avoid undertaking activities that might place charity’s endowment, funds, assets or reputation at undue risk
To ensure that money is spent in relation to the purpose it was given for.

Duty of Care
To use reasonable care and skill in the work undertaken as a Trustee, using personal skills and experience as needed to ensure that the charity is well-run and efficient
To consider getting external professional advice on all matters where there may be material risk to the charity, or where the Trustees may be in breach of their duties.

Vision
To understand and be committed to the mission of the charity
To ensure that the charity’s strategic plan is kept up to date
To keep informed about the activities of the charity and the wider issues which affect its work
To monitor and evaluate the work of the charity on regular basis.

Integrity
To act with integrity and avoid any personal conflicts of interest or misuse of charity funds or assets.

Teamwork
To attend Board meetings and to read papers in advance of those meetings
To work jointly with other members of the Board.
To act with integrity and avoid any personal conflicts of interest or misuse of charity funds or assets.