Paying Trustees to Provide Stuff to Your Charity- Just Because You Can, You Probably Shouldn’t

Changes have been introduced to the Charities Act 2022 to give charities the statutory power to pay trustees for providing goods along to the charity in certain circumstances.

According to the latest update on the Charity Commission’s website:

Under the new statutory power, trustees can be paid for:

• Services only, for example, estate agency or computer consultancy,
• Services and associated goods, for example, plumbing or painting service and any associated  materials such as plumbing parts or paint,
• Goods only, for example, supplying stationary to the Charity

In this article, Debra Allcock Tyler, the CEO of DSC, looks at the reasons why you probably shouldn’t do this