The Charity Governance Review Tool is a unique way for a charity board to assess and improve corporate governance and enhance board effectiveness – it is online, fast and efficient.
It enables trustees to understand and embrace good governance so the charity is more likely to meet its objectives.
Using the online governance tool enables your charity board and senior management to work together collectively as a team. And you can benchmark your governance arrangements against the UK or Ireland Charity Governance Code Principles and best board practices.
The tool is online so you can generate your own instant, personalised Governance Report and SMART Action Plan that you can then implement at your own pace.
And importantly it avoids the need for time-consuming paper checklists or expensive governance consultants.
Best practice recommends that charities should complete a governance review annually and larger charities should complete an external review every 3 years.
Our Charity Governance Review Tool enables trustees to complete a governance review at key times for your charity such as:
Ideally the full board should complete the Charity Governance Review Tool with the support of the CEO and/or Senior Management.
However a sub-committee can also complete it on behalf of the full board. This is because the Governance Report and SMART Action Plan that the tool generates includes all the questions from the review. So the full board has the opportunity to review and challenge responses or assumptions the sub-committee may have made.
After you register on behalf of your charity, you will gain access to the dashboard that includes the questionnaire and instructions on how to complete the Charity Governance Review Tool.
There are 7 sections covering all the key Charity Governance Code key principles:
1. Board Roles and Responsibilities
2. Board Composition and Development
3. Strategic Leadership & Performance
4. Operating The Board
5. Audit, Risk & Financial Management
6. Legal & Compliance
7. External Relationships
When your board responds to all the questions you will instantly generate your own personalised Governance Report and SMART Action Plan.
With your own plan, your board can prioritise each of the actions (High/Medium/Low) and the timeframes so you control implementation to match the capacity and resources of your charity and board.
Once your board approves the final plan, you can review it at least quarterly to track the actions.
Here are just some of the benefits of using the Charity Governance Review Tool:
Read more about how your charity board can improve your governance and be more effective using our Charity Governance Reviews.
Here are just some of the positIve reactions from our recent 2024 live demos with charity trustees, Chairs and CEOs:
“We were very pleased to have the opportunity to use the online Charity Governance Review Tool to review our charity’s governance arrangements.
Working with my Chair I found the process simple and informative and the results were very helpful in assisting us examine and enhance our governance practices and performance. I would recommend the Charity Governance Tool to any CEO and Board interested in working together to renew and refresh your charity’s governance."
Charity CEO
“As a Board, we undertook the Charity Governance Tool with the guidance of Tony Haren. The tool proved to be comprehensive and searching, even challenging! Board members were surprised by the scope of the tool and found the process extremely useful. We were pleased to discover that many of our practices were good, however some fell short of best practice.
We subsequently reviewed the outcomes of the governance assessment and Action Plan internally and committed to change in various areas.
I would fully endorse the value of the Admor Charity Governance Review Tool for charitable organisations of any size and would recommend it as a key tool in achieving excellent governance standards."
Charity Chair
Our Charity Governance Review Tool combines achieving good governance and board effectiveness.
Read more about the importance of regular Charity Governance Reviews and operating an effective board here.
If you want a quick look at how the Charity Governance Review Tool works, try our Free Preview version. This provides access to one of 7 sections so you can see how the tool is relevant and easy to use.
You will have 3 months free unlimited access and there's no need to commit any payment details.
The Free Preview will show you how the tool is very structured to make it extremely easy to use.
When you want to access the full version, that's easy to do from the Free Preview version when you're ready.
To see exactly how it will benefit your charity, then avail of your own personalised live demo at no cost. And it will only take 15 minutes as your time is valuable.
Use this link to set up your own 1-1 live demo at a day and time to suit you on Calendly.
Our short explainer video shows how our Charity Governance Review Tool enables your board to improve its effectiveness quickly.
If you're a board member of another not-for-profit organisation such as a credit union or sporting body, you too should operate high standards of governance and board effectiveness. Your regulator or governing body and your stakeholders absolutely expect it.
Contact us for more details about how our Charity Governance Revew Tool will enable your board to improve its governance and effectiveness.
We like to think of it more as an investment in your charity's governance for a one-off £695.00 + VAT.
You just pay this fixed price for 12 months unlimited access with no annual subscriptions or hidden fees.
And you can pay in different ways to suit your budget:
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The full Board or a sub-committee can complete the tool