Geoffrey Hand - Helping charities deliver good governance

05/05/2022

How prepared is your charity for a reputational risk?

How secure do you feel about your charity’s reputation? Have you taken all the steps you can to protect your organisational from a damaging turn of events? And to prepare in case the worst ever did happen? Great British charities Amnesty International UK Oxfam Save the Children These are household...

02/04/2021

Helen Taylor Thompson was an inspirational charity trustee – in establishing Europe’s first Aids hospice by founding a charity to educate people in developing countries about Aids and by founding a charitable network of social entrepreneurs committed to tackling social problems through business....

19/03/2021

How does your CEO stack up?

Leadership If your charity has adopted the Charity Governance Code you will know the importance of a Charity Trustee Board in providing the strong leadership so essential to your charity’s effectiveness and well-being. The key leadership players will be your charity’s Chair and its senior employ...

02/03/2021

As a former Kids Company volunteer, it's quite something to see it all unfold...

Congratulations to the Kids Company charity trustees for fighting off the High Court Director Disqualification proceedings . Congratulations also to its charity CEO Camila Batmanghelidjh who faced similar criticism. But isn’t finding out what went wrong with Kids Company’s charity governance mor...

30/04/2020

The work of charities is
“NEVER MORE NEEDED”
than NOW

Free and Immediate Professional Help

During the coronavirus lockdown I offer free and immediate professional support to charities whose delivery of essential services is being hampered by Governance issues.

Trustee & staff issues, third-party relationships, charitable activities, safeguarding, serious incidents, compliance.

Geoffrey Hand
[email protected]
www.geoffreyhand.co.uk
07914 005 327

30/04/2020

The work of charities is
“NEVER MORE NEEDED”
than NOW

Free and Immediate Professional Help

During the coronavirus lockdown I offer free and immediate professional support to charities whose delivery of essential services is being hampered by Governance issues.

Trustee & staff issues, third-party relationships, charitable activities, safeguarding, serious incidents, compliance.

Geoffrey Hand
[email protected]
www.geoffreyhand.co.uk
07914 005 327

My charity governance consultancy can bring your charity’s governance to where it should be: a robust framework which under-pins and sustains your charity.

11/04/2020

My latest blog post - taking adequate minutes of your charity trustee meetings does matter - as Marie Stopes found out the hard way...

Taking charity minutes may seem humdrum, but without them you may put your charity's reputation at risk. Marie Stopes recently found this out the hard way.

26/03/2020

http://www.geoffreyhand.co.uk/dont-let-coronavirus-covid-19-de-rail-your-charity-governance/

15/02/2020

My latest blog post - succession planning doesn't need to feel like hard work

A small investment in forward planning can do wonders in stopping the wheels from falling off when a key player on your trustee board needs to withdraw

07/02/2020

My latest blog post...

Most people think the answer to 'who's in charge of a charity' is always: 'the Trustees'. Unfortunately, it's not always that simple.

27/10/2018

My latest blog post

1. Your charity’s governing document matters Your governing document is both your charity’s Bible and its Highway Code. If your charity is doing something different, your charity trustees can be way off track before realising they have set a foot wrong. Check it out regularly, at least once a ye...

20/10/2018

How to avoid your own Trustee Nightmare

You are a charity trustee. In your trustee nightmare, you are successively chair of trustees of each of these famous, now perhaps notorious, national charities: Oxfam Save the Children The Presidents Club Age UK Help for Heroes Kids Company Each of these charities has encountered major problems incl...