Why every board should have a Vice Chair
A Vice Chair brings added skills, experience and perspective as well as helping to share the leadership role. The AoC describes a few of the important roles a good Vice Chair can play.
A Vice Chair brings added skills, experience and perspective as well as helping to share the leadership role. The AoC describes a few of the important roles a good Vice Chair can play.
Offers a range of seminars and workshops as well as general advice for Chairs and Vice-Chairs.
The success (or otherwise) of your charity owes much to the performance of your Chief Executive. Chairs have a key role in holding the Chief Executive to account and creating the conditions for the Chief Executive to succeed. This guide explores how to ensure you have a good appraisal process that supports and motivates your CEO to do even better.
Stephen Dunlop, Chairman of Open House Festival, was keynote speaker at the Arts & Business NI Conference 2018. This is a transcript of Stephen's keynote address - the story behind Open House Festival's governance development and journey towards a new building and sustainable future. Published: 2018.
This briefing looks at the Chair’s role in helping the board to navigate risk. Charities face a multitude of risks, that could derail you from achieving your charity’s aims. The challenge for Chairs is to ensure that your board understands and successfully navigates risks and seizes opportunities, without getting bogged down in details or being excessively cautious. This briefing explores how as Chair, you can help your board take a strategic approach.
A blog post from the Battersea Arts Centre on artistic freedom and risk and its relationship to governance. Published: October 2016.
Chairs have a key role in ensuring the charity complies with the law which can feel daunting. The law is complex, wide-ranging, and changeable. Legal advice is typically expensive, may slow things down and can feel like a block to action. But a breach of the law can have serious consequences for the charity, and sometimes for the trustees personally. This briefing helps you understand the issues and find a workable approach.
The guide will prove relevant to CEOs and their chairs but is also recommended reading for all those involved in the governance of third sector organisations. Published: November 2013.
This briefing looks at the Chair’s role in making board committees work.
Supports Chairs of charities and non-profit organisations.
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