Keeping records
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CloseRecords that your non profit organisation must keep as evidence for compliance and checks.
Your organisation must keep records of:
- signed minutes of board meetings (and sub-committees) to evidence how decisions were made and how the board has met its legal responsibilities, eg reports on health and safety
- accounting records (paper and/or electronic) to provide an audit trail and to inform any query made; compliance with the charity SORP; regulation from the Charity Commission regarding the submission of annual returns, annual reports and accounts
- evidence of checks on employees including their right to work in the UK and disclosure checks with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) where applicable).
Source: This material is taken from "Tools for Success: doing the right things and doing them right", published in October 2008. Download or buy your copy from Cass Centre for Charity Effectiveness.
Find out more about HR records in Keeping employee records.
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