Governors
There is sometimes a lack of clarity concerning who the governing group is, what they are called and how many of them there are. The Charity Commission's preferred term is "trustee, but a more-common term is "management committee member". Other terms include:
- Executive Committee member
- Board member
- Director
- Governor
- Council Member
The Charity Commission has details of about 890,000 charity trustees. Since community groups and small voluntary organisations do not have to register, the precise number of those involved in governing them is unknown but is estimated to be about one million. This gives a grand total of almost two million people in governance positions in community groups, voluntary organisations and charities in England and Wales.
Read more about this topic: Small Charity Governance
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