Level 1: Getting started
From Our Toolkit
What this might look like for you:
- You are looking to set up a new group to manage and safeguard your heritage
- You are new to governance and want to understand the role governance plays in the success of an organisation
- You want to review and refresh the key governance tasks your organisation is undertaking
Suggested activity:
- Decide what you want to do as an organisation and where your funding will come from
- Decide upon the best legal structure for you (informed by the above)
- Decide whether to incorporate or become a charitable organisation (including CIO or CIC) Write your governing document
- Write your terms of reference
- Hold you first meeting
- Plan your first year of activity
- Recruit for your governing body
- Find out what your legal compliance is over equalities, health & safety, insurance, safeguarding, copyright and data protection
You can either work through or dip in and out of the sections below to support you with these tasks.