Being a charity trustee involves significant legal liabilities. It’s almost as though the government actively wants to deter volunteers
Be careful, be very careful. If that is the message charity trustees are now hearing, what does that imply for the sector’s willingness to innovate and take risk – which is surely the point of charities? That message was certainly what I seemed to be hearing when I recently went along to a trustees’ legislative update. “Have you read section 177?” asked a senior legal partner, with just an undertone of menace. From that section of the Charities Act 2011 follows a long list of onerous obligations for trustees.
I chair a charity and have been on the boards of both major philanthropic and service providing charities, but I had to confess I haven’t read that particular section of the act. Nor have I read the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016 or the sections of the Charities Act 1992 that still apply to trustees. Then there’s the General Data Protection Regulation, being incorporated in UK law in the data protection bill, with associated trustee liabilities regulated by the information commissioner.
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