IMPORTANT PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
While on the Board of Trustees, you are automatically Director of the company AND a Trustee of the charity. The Charity Commission requires all members to declare their eligibility to be a Trustee. Please read the information below.
Trustee eligibility and responsibility
By completing and signing this form, you declare that:
1) You are willing to act as a trustee of BELMAS
2) You understand your organisation’s purposes (objects) and rules set out in its governing document (we will help with this upon election)
3) You are not prevented from acting as a trustee because you:
• have an unspent conviction for one or more of the offences listed here
• have an IVA, debt relief order and/or a bankruptcy order
• have been removed as a trustee in England, Scotland or Wales (by the Charity Commission or Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator)
• have been removed from being in the management or control of any body in Scotland (under relevant legislation)
• have been disqualified by the Charity Commission
• are a disqualified company director
• are a designated person for the purposes of anti-terrorism legislation
• are on the sex offenders register
• have been found in contempt of court for making (or causing to be made) a false statement
• have been found guilty of disobedience to an order or direction of the Charity Commission
Personal benefit
If your organisation pays (or will pay) any trustee for being a trustee OR any trustee or person connected to them for providing goods and services, you declare that this will:
• Be in the organisation’s best interests
• Be lawful and authorised
• Help the organisation carry out its purposes (or be a necessary by-product of it carrying out its purposes)
You also declare that:
• The information you provide to the Charity Commission is true, complete and correct
• You understand that it’s an offence under section 60(1)(b) of the Charities Act 2011 to knowingly or recklessly provide false or misleading information
• Your organisation’s funds are held (or will be held) in its name in a bank or building society account in England or Wales
• You will comply with your responsibilities as trustees - these are set out in the Charity Commission guidance ‘The essential trustee (CC3)’
• (If applicable) the primary address and residency details you provide in a charity registration application are correct and you will notify the Charity Commission if they change