Wicklow PPN Workshop 3 - Running a Successful Organisation & Governance Compliance

Sep 12, 2026

Workshop notes for Wicklow PPN Workshop 3 (01/03/2021) on running a successful charitable organisation while meeting governance compliance expectations. The session reviews what documents demonstrate compliance across key principles and outlines a work programme for writing, adapting, and assigning accountable leads within a set timeframe. It revisits Principles 1 to 4, covering charitable purpose, integrity, leadership of people, and exercising control, including core and additional standards for strategic planning, volunteers, employment compliance, governance structures, financial controls, risk management, and insurance.

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Recap and Workshop Structure

Before today: compliance review and planning

How did it go? questions and observations

Workshop 1: Principles 1 & 2

Principle 1: Advancing Charitable Purpose

Core standards 1.1-1.5

Additional standards 1.6-1.8

Principle 2: Behaving with Integrity

Core standards 2.1-2.3

Workshop 2: Principles 3 & 4

Principle 3: Leading People

Core standards 3.1-3.4

Additional standards 3.5-3.7

Principle 4: Exercising Control

Core standards 4.1-4.6

Running a Successful Organisation & Being ‘Governance’ Compliant Senan Turnbull for Wicklow PPN Workshop 3 01/03/2021 Before today… • Participants will hopefully have; • Reviewed Principles 3 and 4 (and maybe Principles 1 & 2 also) to see what documents there were to indicate compliance with each standard. • Looked at what needed to be done and developed a work programme of what you need to write/adapt and allocated a lead person/group to do the work setting a time-frame to carry it out. • HOW DID IT GO?….QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/OBSERVATIONS • Looked ahead at Principles 5 and 6 •Recap on •Workshop 1 - Principles 1 & 2 Principle 1: Advancing Charitable Purpose • Five CORE Standards • 1.1.Be clear about the purpose of your charity…… • 1.2.Consider whether or not any private benefit arises……. • 1.3.Agree an achievable plan for at least the next year…….. • 1.4.Make sure your charity has the resources it needs to do the activities you plan…….. • 1.5.From time to time, review what you are doing…….. Principle 1: Advancing Charitable Purpose • Three ADDITIONAL Standards-(no additional Standards) • 1.6. Develop your charity’s strategic plan and associated operational plans. • 1.7 Make sure there is an appropriate system in place to: -monitor progress against your plans; and -evaluate the effectiveness of your work. • 1.8. From time to time, consider the advantages and disadvantages of working in partnership with other charities, including merging or dissolving (winding up) . Principle 2: Behaving with Integrity • Three CORE standards • 2.1. Agree the basic values that matter to your charity and publicise these, so that everyone involved understands the way things should be done and how everyone is expected to behave. • 2.2. Decide how you will deal with conflicts of interests and conflicts of loyalties. You should also decide how you will adhere to the Charities Regulator’s guidelines on this topic. • 2.3. Have a code of conduct for your board that is signed by all charity trustees. It must make clear the standard of behaviour expected from charity trustees. This includes things like maintaining confidentiality and what to do in relation to: gifts and hospitality, and out-of-pocket expenses. •Recap on •Workshop 2 - Principles 3 & 4 Principle 3-Leading People •Four CORE Standards •3.1. Be clear about the roles of everyone working in and for your charity, both on a voluntary and paid basis. •3.2. Make sure there are arrangements in place for the effective involvement of any volunteers, including what to do if any problems arise. •3.3. Make sure there are arrangements in place that comply with employment legislation for all paid staff including: -recruitment; -training and development; -support, supervision and appraisal; -remuneration (money paid for work) and dismissal. •3.4. Agree operational policies where necessary, to guide the actions of everyone involved in your charity. Principle 3-Leading People •Three ADDITIONAL Standards •3.5. Make sure to document the roles, legal duties and delegated responsibility for decision-making of: -individual charity trustees and the board as a whole, - any subcommittees or working groups, -staff and volunteers. •3.6. Make sure that there are written procedures in place which set out how volunteers are: -recruited, supported and supervised while within your charity, -and the conditions under which they exit. •3.7. Decide how you will develop operational policy in your charity. You also need to decide how your charity trustees will make sure that the policy is put in place and kept up to date. Principle 4-Exercising Control •Six CORE Standards •4.1. Decide if your charity’s current legal form and governing document are fit for purpose. Make changes if necessary, telling the Charities Regulator in advance that you are doing so. •4.2. Find out the laws and regulatory requirements that are relevant to your charit

FAQs

What approach should participants use to demonstrate compliance across governance principles?

Participants reviewed documents that indicate compliance for each standard, then identified what needed to be done, developed a work programme for writing or adapting documents, and assigned a lead person/group with a timeframe to deliver it.

What are the key compliance expectations under Principle 1 (Advancing Charitable Purpose)?

The principles include being clear about charitable purpose, assessing private benefit, setting an achievable plan for at least the next year, ensuring necessary resources, and reviewing activities. Additional standards cover strategic and operational planning, monitoring and evaluation systems, and considering partnership advantages and disadvantages.

What governance controls are required under Principle 4 (Exercising Control)?

Expectations include ensuring the charity’s legal form and governing document are fit for purpose, complying with relevant laws and regulatory requirements, following fundraising guidance if raising public funds, implementing financial controls, identifying and managing risks, and maintaining appropriate and adequate insurance cover.

Sep 12, 2026

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