In 'The essential trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do (CC3)' the Charity Commission sets out the 6 key duties for charity trustees and what these cover - the top three being:

• act in the interests of their charity and its beneficiaries
• protect and safeguard the assets of their charity
• act with reasonable care and skill

To deliver against these duties, charity trustees need to be able to identify the critical issues - the charity's purposes and plans, its solvency, its resilience and quality of governance - and to be able to review these at regular intervals. The Commission has designed 15 questions to help charity trustees carry out such a review and decide what they need to focus on.