by Emma Willder | Aug 5, 2025 | Governance
Trustees are volunteers. We don’t get paid for the role that we perform, and we know this. It’s what we sign up for. We become trustees because we want to help. To support a charity that shares the same values, and that we feel we can bring our skills,...
by Emma Willder | Jun 2, 2025 | Governance
When I founded Beyond Profit, it wasn’t about scaling fast or chasing the usual business milestones – it was about solving a problem I had seen firsthand during 15 years in the charity sector: that charity finance is not just another specialism. It’s a...
by Emma Willder | May 6, 2025 | Governance
Conflicts of interest affect all charities, regardless of size, type, or charitable purpose. And when cases and stories of conflicts of interest relating to trustees hit the news, they hit hard. Public trust and confidence in the charity plummets, and reputational...
by Emma Willder | Feb 4, 2025 | Governance
Charity governance, or for this blog post, non-compliance of charity governance, has been hitting the headlines what seems like month after month, with the Charity Commission carrying out more and more investigations and holding charities and, in particular, trustees...
by Emma Willder | Nov 26, 2024 | Governance
In today’s world, fraud and the various types of fraud that individuals and businesses fall victim to are not only increasing but developing in sophistication and severity. In fact, fraud currently accounts for approximately 40% of all crimes in England and...
by Emma Willder | Nov 4, 2024 | Governance
With it being Trustees’ Week this week, 4-8 November, what better way to look at the positive impact trustees have on the charities they support than to speak to our very own Managing Director Emma Willder about her experience as a trustee and what advice she...
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