Being an Effective NED in the Third Sector

• • Tuesday 27 April 2010
    Great Hall, Chartered Accountants' Hall, London (map)
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Non-executive directors’ tasks range from ensuring good corporate governance and compliance, to protecting stakeholder interests.  An effective NED must also be able to see the ‘bigger picture’, add value and challenge decision making.

For the NED in the Third Sector, the board mandate is more complex and stakeholders more diverse. Adding value and effecting real change becomes an even bigger challenge.

This half–day seminar is designed specifically to help you meet those challenges and make a real difference.  

Why you should attend

• Hear from expert speakers, including Don Bawtree, charity finance expert, Chair of The Ujima Enquiry and the CEO of The Appointments Commission and address your concerns in our Q&A sessions
• Learn how to balance managing interests and maintaining independence
• Equip yourself with the ability to perform leading-edge board performance evaluations
• Learn strategies to achieve more effective, efficient corporate governance systems

Speaker biography - Don Bawtree

Don heads up BDO LLP’s charity unit and has specific responsibility for larger and national charity clients. His experience spans 20 years of working in the charity sector: He is a dedicated expert in charities. Don acts as audit partner for several large charities and is Chair of the Auditing Practices Board committee responsible for writing Practice Note 11, which is the standard by which all charity audits in the UK must be conducted. Don lectures on charity finance for professional institutes and training bodies around the UK, and is a regular contribuor to the press. Don is a visiting lecturer for CASS business school and author of the guide to Sorp compliance, published by Charity Finance, now in its 5th edition. Don is author, with Kate Kirkland, of Tottel’s “Charity administration handbook”, now in its 4th edition. Most recently he was on the Independent Expert Group reporting on Expenses in the charity sector.