Accessible Text Alternative for Flow Chart of a Board's Lines of Responsibility

Accessible text version for a flow chart showing a heritage board's lines of responsibility as an example of a board with committees, and some of the statutory and non-statutory governance areas it considers.

Box 1

Board of trustees

  • Overall responsibility for governing the organisation
  • Collective decision-making on strategy and organisational direction

This box connects to 3 other boxes (listed on this page as box 2a, 2b and 2c).

Box 2a

Committees of the board

  • Focus on specific themes (for example, IDE and report/make recommendations to the board of trustees

Box 2b

Staff

  • Undertake the delivery of the organisation's purposes through executive functions

Box 2c

Volunteers

  • Support the delivery of the organisation's purposes on a voluntary basis

Surrounding the core boxes of the flowchart are 4 additional boxes. They are standalone and not connected to any other.

Additional boxes

Regulators

  • (For example, Charity Commission, Companies House)

Governing Document

  • (Memorandum and articles of association)

Policies and procedures

  • (For example, Equality and conflict of interest policies, code of conduct)

Guidance and legislation

  • (For example, Equality Act)