Trustee Eligibility Declaration
PLEASE COMPLETE USING BLOCK CAPITALS AND BLACK INK (complete additional forms if you have more than 4 trustees)
Organisation name (Your organisation name as it appears in your governing document)
Total number of trustees your organisation has
Trustee 1
Name
Signature:
Date
Trustee 2
Name
Signature:
Trustee 3
Name
Signature:
Trustee 4
Name
Signature
Date Date Date
Working with vulnerable groups
Tick this box if your organisation works with vulnerable
people (including children) and you declare that you have:
Read and understood the Charity Commission’s
safeguarding guidance
Carried out all trustee eligibility checks the law requires
and on the basis of those checks are satisfied that the
people acting as trustees are both eligible and suitable
to act as trustees of this charity
Corporate Trusteeship
Tick this box if your organisation has a corporate trustee
(another organisation which acts as trustee such as a local
authority) and its directors are making this declaration)
Trustee eligibility and responsibility
By completing and signing this form, you declare that you:
• are willing to act as a trustee of the organisation
named above
• understand your organisation’s purposes (objects) and
rules set out in its governing document
• 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
* https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/
uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820804/
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