Publication date: 01/09/2003
Price: £49.50
Comments :
Governance issues are increasingly important for charities and their funders. Charities are expected to play an enhanced role in the provisions of services whilst at the same time they are answerable to a greater number of stakeholders. There has been much serious and earnest debate in the charity sector about governance.
This is the first book to consider how the law interacts with charity governance and to look to the future role of the law.
The book is a collection of thought-provoking essays that provided the basis of a series of four inter-disciplinary seminars on charity law and governance. Each seminar considered a particular aspect of governance with a paper on the law, a paper on the experience and practice of charities and a paper from a different but relevant area or discipline.
Areas covered include:
• Recruiting and Retaining an Effective Body of Trustees
• The Involvement of Users in Governance
• Strategy or Management by Trustees
• The Influence of Funders
• Lessons for the future
The result is a critical forward look at the role of law in charity governance.
"This important work will be essential reading for all concerned in the administration of charities and their professional advisers."
Robert Venables QC
Contributors
Karen Atkinson
Research Assistant, Charity Law Unit, University of Liverpool
Michael Carpenter
Retired Executive Legal Charity Commissioner
Robin Currie
Chief Executive, PSS
Dorothy Dalton
Director of Voluntary Sector Development, Howarth Clark Whitehill
Valerie James
Partner, Wrigleys Solicitors
Gregory Jobome
Lecturer in Economics, University of Liverpool
John Marshall
NHS Regional Appointments Commissioner
Robert Meakin
Partner, Stone King Solicitors
Debra Morris
Lecturer, Cayman Island Law School
David Mullins
Reader in Housing Studies, University of Birmingham
David Nussbaum
Managing Director, Transparency International
Roger Singleton
Chief Executive, Barnardo’s
Jean Warburton
Professor of Law, Charity Law Unit, University of Liverpool