The people who are responsible for running a charity are known as ‘charity trustees’, although they are often called something else, like committee member, or board member, or director (of a company). The Commission produces a lot of guidance to help charity trustees. The following guidance focuses on selecting, recruiting, informing and retaining trustees.

• The Essential Trustee – An introduction
• The Essential Trustee - What you need to know
• What should a charity think about before recruiting new trustees?
• Finding new trustees - What charities need to know
• Trustees’ expenses and payments

See also:

• I want to find trustees – Includes a list of organisations that can advertise trustee vacancies or get help finding new trustees
• Sample trustee job description – produced by NCVO (opens in new window)
• Trustee recruitment, selection and induction – A Commission report presenting our case-working experience, supplemented by additional research