If the agenda is the roadmap for a trustee meeting, the papers are the fuel. Get them right and your board meetings become focused, confident and forward-looking. Get them wrong and trustees spend two hours reading unnecessary details, asking questions too late, or feeling unsure what they are meant to be doing with the information in front of them. This blog follows on from my recent post about trustee meeting agendas and looks at what should sit behind them. Not as a check

Charity trustee meeting agendas are one of those things that can feel deceptively simple. It can be easy to fall into the trap of copy pasting the last one and perhaps adding an item or two. But in reality, the agenda shapes the meeting and that in turn shapes the governance of the charity. So, it is kind of a big deal! In fact, I honestly believe that a well thought through agenda is one of the most powerful governance tools a charity has. A weak one can leave trustees feeli

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