Helps ensure we are compliant with our obligations.
Clear purpose helps trustees to understand their responsibilities.
To align with good practice guidance from charity regulators.
A focus on ensuring effective governance.
Supports everyone in being able to provide Young People with Skills for Life.
Resources to help you get started as a Trustee:
Resources to help you attract and onboard the right people into your Trustee Board:
Resources to support you with governance:
Good governance is a key factor to our success at group, district and regional level, it enables our teams to ensure that local scouting is complying with our policies, organisation and rules, Scottish and UK law, and OSCR regulations. It also supports everyone providing exciting programmes and experiences for our members.
Over the past few years, the good practice and regulations set by the Charity Regulators has been significantly changed, and in order to be compliant, we need to change too. To achieve this, we are moving from Executive Committees to Trustee Boards. But this isn’t just a name change, it also changes the team’s purpose, responsibilities and how your group will function. There’s a need to make several changes including changes to group, district and regional constitutions.
Scottish version of a District Constitution template, which can be used and/or amended.
Scottish version of a Group Constitution template, which can be used and/or amended.
To help with recruitment we’ve pulled some templates for you to use.
Scottish variations from the March 2024 edition of the Policy, Organisation and Rules (POR) of the Scout Association.
Scottish version of a template for Annual General Meetings agendas and scripts for Districts.
Scottish version of a template for Annual General Meetings agendas and scripts for Groups.
