Services
Governance
The standards expected of governing boards have risen dramatically over recent years. Most organisations now recognise the need to keep their governance arrangements under constant review. We help organisations to:
- Review the performance of their boards and committees
- Re-structure the board or its committees
- Clarify relationships with management
- Establish feedback systems for board and committee members.
Our role can include:
- Conducting a board self assessment of board performance
- Making proposals to strengthen board and commitee structures
- Masterminding board and senior management away days
- Supporting the Chair during periods of change.
Our clients in this area include:
| Benenden Healthcare Alzheimer’s Disease International Citizens Advice Christian Aid Futurebuilders Magna Housing Group |
NSPCC Royal College of Nursing Turning Point Worldwide Fund for Nature Multiple Sclerosis Society |
Case Study: Futurebuilders England
Futurebuilders England is a unique £150m government-backed fund offering support and investment to third sector
organisations to deliver public services. We offer a combination of loans, grants and professional support to
build the capacity of third sector organisations who want to deliver better public services. Most organisations
have never borrowed before, so we provide sustained, flexible and individual support to ensure our investees
have the right financial, managerial and governance structures to take on a loan and successfully compete for
contracts in the public sector.
Futurebuilders wants to ensure it has the highest possible standards of governance. Since our inception in 2004,
we have conducted regular Board performance reviews, whereby all members Board and SMT (Senior Management Team)
complete a confidential questionnaire on the performance of the Board as a whole. Each Board member also reports
on his/her own performance, as well as that of every other member of the Board. This provides a rich source of
data for individual performance reviews with the Chair. The Chair and the Vice Chair review each other‘s
performance.
Quote from Richard Gutch, Chief Executive
'We have been very pleased with the work Compass Partnership has done with our Board. They have brought real added value and helped our Board learn how to ensure continued improvement in the governance of Futurebuilders.'
First Step Opportunity Group — recipient of Futurebuilders England finance package. First Step delivers pre-school support to children with physical disabilities or special needs, alongside support to the wider family network to help parents, carers and siblings to come to terms with a child‘s needs.
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Board Performance Reviews
Both the Charity Commission and the Code of Governance for the Voluntary Sector recommend that boards should carry out a periodic review of the performance of their governance arrangements.
We help boards to:
- Conduct self assessments of their performance
- Benchmark their performance with our growing database of results from previous surveys
- Develop action plans to address areas of performance requiring most attention.
Our role usually includes:
- Tailoring the self assessment questionaire to suit your organisation
- Conducting the self assessment
- Producing a presentation of findings
- Facilitating a board workshop to agreee the improvement plan.
Our clients in this area include:
| Advance UK Citizens Advice Equal Opportunities Commission Futurebuilders Homerton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
Methodist Ministers Housing Society Multiple Sclerosis Society National Consumer Council NSPCC Volunteering England |