NCVO charity law review will examine issue of trustee payment

Remuneration of trustees and potential alternatives to the Charity Tribunal are just two areas that the NCVO’s Charity Law Advisory Group will examine as part of its review of the Charities Act 2006. The NCVO group will conduct its own review of the Act in parallel with Lord Hodgson’s review, with both taking place throughout the first half of next year.

Rosie Chapman, former director of policy and effectiveness at the Charity Commission, is one of the members of the NCVO group and she says that while Lord Hodgson’s review will look at the effect of the 2006 Act on the willingness of individuals to volunteer, that is "very wide in scope" and so the NCVO group will focus on how to encourage more trusteeship. Within this, it will looking at areas such as whether trustee liability should be extended to trustees of unincorporated charities, whether trustee remuneration should be made easier for charities to adopt, and whether trustees' regulatory obligations might be made simpler.

To read more about this click here, or to read Rosie Chapman's guest post about the review on NCVO's discussion website click here.

(Source: Civil Society Governance, 18 November 2011)