The Charity Commission has already received around 35,000 responses to its recently launched trustee campaign for 2024, compared with over 75,000 responses last year, a spokesperson told Civil Society.
The campaign is a call to trustees to refresh their knowledge of the commission’s guidance on the role of the trustee. It has a new interactive component for this year’s quiz, with questions stemming from recently updated guidance.
The multiple-choice quiz, which takes an estimated three minutes to complete, encourages trustees to think about scenarios on how to respond to financial pressures caused by increased demand while having lower donations, and ways to prevent banking scams and/or fraud.
It includes new questions based on the recently updated versions of the commission’s decision-making guidance (CC27) and improving charity’s finances guidance (CC12).
The commission’s recent trustee research highlights the need for better awareness of its guidance.
It shows that despite 93% having used the commission’s guidance and finding it helpful, only 26% of trustees sought the regulator’s help when unsure about something in their role.
It also reveals that those who have been trustees for less than a year were more likely to be unaware of the commission’s resources on help and guidance and not know how to find what they need.
The main survey involved 2,541 trustees while 23 charities took part in the focus groups. Each group comprised of trustees of different charity sizes and lengths of trustee experience and contained at least three trustees whose charity had experienced banking issues.
The campaign runs until 9 November.
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to show the number of trustees that took part in the survey
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