NLJ this week: Charitably minded, Goodband & the rules for trustees

As Liz Brownsell, partner and head of charities at Birketts, writes in this week’s NLJ, ‘research shows that the public care most about how charities spend their funds, and this is borne out in the stories that tend to hit the headlines’.

Brownsell looks at the Charity Commission’s support and education of trustees, particularly regarding conflict of interest and personal benefit. Is it doing enough to prevent trustees falling foul of the rules? What is and isn’t allowed, and why isn’t there more clarity?

She covers in detail Goodband v Charity Commission, a case in which a trustee appealed her disqualification.