Trustees' Week is an annual event to showcase the great work that trustees do and highlight opportunities for people from all walks of life to get involved and make a difference.
Trustees play a vital role in a charity like the Friends of Cuthill Park, and few people realise just how much responsibility they shoulder.
The main duty of charity trustees is to maintain general overall control of the charity.
Trustees need to ensure that the charity is administered effectively, and is able to account for its activities.
A charity Trustee must:
- act in the interests of the charity
- ensure that the charity operates in a manner that is consisent with its objects or purposes
- act with the care and diligence that it is reasonable to expect of a person who is managing the affairs of another person
- ensure that the charity complies with the provisions of The Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, and other relevant legislation.
In addition to these general duties, Trustees have specific duties relating to:
- charity details on the Scottish Charity Register
- reporting to OSCR
- financial record keeping and reporting
- fundraising
- providing information to the public
In other words...the buck stops with them!
Thank you to all the Trustees of the Friends of Cuthill Park ((Scottish Charity Number SC040402)!
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