For your church or Christian charity to thrive it will need an effective trustee board. This paper – part of a series looking at trustees – looks beyond simply how to run good trustees’ meetings. It considers what your trustee board should be doing away from meetings and how your organisation can develop its trustee board to become even more effective.
Topics include:
- the role of the trustee board away from trustee meetings
- how to develop good and effective trustee boards
- charity officers – chairperson and treasurer (or finance lead)
- running trustee meetings
- taking minutes at trustees' meetings
Updated September 2026.
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Quarterly emails for trustees, treasurers and Church and Charity Leaders. Practical tools, technical resources and expert guidance to safeguard your mission and ministry.