The Governance Project

Funded by the Big Lottery, the Governance Project is a two year project developed jointly by Law Centres Federation (London) and AdviceUK (London).

The Governance Project is a two year project developed jointly by Law Centres Federation (London) and AdviceUK (London). It aims to improve the skills and knowledge of trustees and not-for-profit company directors and to help them function well in a regulatory, policy and funding environment that is increasingly challenging.

Whilst recognising that there is a large amount of training and published material available for Trustees and Management Committees in the not-for-profit sector, much of it is very general in nature. However, AdviceUK and Law Centres Federation have both been approached by their members for something more relevant to the day to day issues that Trustees of organisations providing legal advice services must contend with.

One strand of the project is to keep Trustees informed of the latest development in the advice sector, how those issues are likely to impact on their agencies and how to mitigate or avoid any potential disadvantages. To this end the Governance Project will be producing a series of briefing papers for trustees on governance related policy issues that affect advice agencies and Law Centres.

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