Everything here is free, written for UK charities, and kept in step with Charity Commission guidance. Use it with or without The Committee Room.
A whole page of resources is a lot to land on. These three are the ones most boards use first.
The one most people come for. A Charity Commission–friendly layout with decision and action logs built in, plus a page on what minutes must (and needn't) record.
Enter your year end and structure and get every filing deadline that applies (Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI, Companies House), with calendar reminders. Thirty seconds, nothing sent anywhere.
Ten questions scored against the 2025 Charity Governance Code, with an instant report naming your priority fixes and the free template for each. Scored in your browser.
All of this stays free, whether or not you ever use us. If you'd rather not write the minutes at all, that's the job we do: £19 a meeting, drafted by AI, checked by a person. See how it works →
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A Charity Commission–friendly minutes layout with decision and action logs built in, plus a one-page guide to what minutes must (and needn't) record.
See what finished minutes look like: a full worked example for a fictional charity, with numbered decisions, an action log and our house layout. Handy whether you write your own or send them to us.
The 90-minute agenda that ends on time: consent items grouped, decisions upfront, AOB tamed. With chairing notes in the margins.
Which policies your charity actually needs, which are optional, and how often to review each, set out as a ready-made three-year rolling schedule.
Every recurring deadline a charity board faces (annual return, policy reviews, trustee terms), pre-loaded with a days-until-due countdown and a year-end deadline calculator.
Two logs in one workbook: every decision numbered and recorded in its exact wording, and a rolling action log with owners, due dates and an automatic overdue counter. It's the follow-up system that makes minutes actually happen.
If "what did we actually agree?" keeps coming up, this is the fix: one numbered row per decision, in the exact wording, with the meeting date and agenda item. It is the second tab of the tracker above, so download once and you have both.
A welcome letter, first-90-days checklist and reading list, because so many charities give new trustees no induction at all.
A ready-to-adopt policy with the two forms that make it work: a register of interests and a trustee declaration form. Declare, manage, record: the routine that protects trustees as much as the charity.
Dual authorisation, spending limits, cash handling and expenses, built on one golden rule: no single person controls a transaction from start to finish. Includes a fill-in authorisation table.
The one the regulator takes most seriously. Roles and named contacts, safer recruitment, how to report a concern and when it becomes a serious incident — plus a key-contacts sheet and a concern record form your team can actually use.
UK GDPR at the level a small charity needs: lawful bases, consent and marketing, people's rights, breaches and the 72-hour rule. Includes an information asset register and a breach log to fill in.
A fair three-stage process with sensible timescales, safeguarding carve-outs, and where people can go if they're still unhappy. Short enough that your board will actually follow it.
Small, useful, and honest about what they are: a taste of what The Committee Room does automatically.
Enter your year end and structure, and get every filing deadline that applies (Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI and Companies House), with calendar reminders to download. Worked out in your browser; nothing sent anywhere.
Ten questions scored against the 2025 Charity Governance Code, with an instant personalised report: your priority fixes, each with a free template to match. Scored in your browser; nothing leaves your device.
The questions every board asks, answered without legalese. Reviewed against current Charity Commission guidance.
Nobody sends a new charity a manual. What to do before your first board meeting, the four policies that matter in year one, your first accounts and return — and, just as usefully, what can safely wait.
The nine steps from first idea to registered charity in England and Wales, in the order that actually works — trustees, purposes, structure, governing document, bank account, Commission and HMRC.
The four structures compared on the things that matter: who is personally liable, who regulates you, and how much filing you take on for the rest of the charity's life.
Written for Scotland rather than adapted from England: no registration threshold, the charity test, single and two-tier SCIOs, and what changed when trustee names and full accounts went public on 9 March 2026.
Annual returns, quorum, conflicts, trustee pay, AGMs, reserves: the questions every board asks, answered in plain English and checked against Commission guidance.
CC3 without the fog: what each duty means on an ordinary Tuesday, with examples of getting it right and wrong.
What the Charity Commission asks, what changes at £10k, £25k and £250k income, and the dates that actually matter for your year end.
Retention rules for minutes, accounts, safeguarding records and HR papers, with a one-page retention schedule to adopt.
Three regulators, three Acts, real differences. Who you answer to, the cross-border trap, and what changes in 2026, with England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland compared.
Why circulating the bank balance is not a finance report, the restricted funds point small boards most often get wrong, and a one-page structure that gets trustees asking useful questions instead of nodding politely.
The filing-deadline tools, financial controls, what changes on 30 September 2026, and reporting to your board: the material on this site that matters most in the treasurer's role, on one page.
Trustee names are published in all four nations, and Scotland only started in March 2026. What each regulator shows, the two fixes that cost nothing, and how to apply if being named would put someone at risk.
79% of boards in NCVO’s survey have a vacancy. What works beyond word of mouth: role descriptions people answer, and where to post them free.
In-depth governance guides written by a chartered governance professional. Download, print, or share with your board. No sign-up.
What minutes are really for, why they’re not a transcript, and how to capture decisions and actions so anyone who wasn’t in the room understands them.
The proportionate core set (safeguarding, financial controls, conflicts, data protection and the rest), with what’s legally required and where to start.
Incorporated or not? The four main structures compared on liability, regulators and admin, and what should tip the balance for a new charity. Read it on the site if you'd rather not download.
From first idea to up and running in England & Wales: trustees, purposes, structure, governing document, bank account, and registering with the Commission and HMRC. Read it on the site if you'd rather not download.
Both a legal requirement and your best story to funders. What it must contain, the public benefit statement, and how to make it more than a compliance exercise.
Everything above is yours free, with no sign-up and no catch. If writing the minutes is the bit that keeps landing on the same person, that is the job we do: £19 a meeting, back within two working days, checked by a chartered governance professional.
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