The Trustee Problem

As you may recall, Kaber Village Hall Trust (“the Charity”) had difficulties because all committee members were automatically made legal Trustees of the charity and there had to be 10 such Trustees.

As part of the work that the people you elected to run the hall in October 2023 agreed to undertake was to update all this, so that the people running the hall did not need to be Trustees of the Charity and we had a more realistic number of Trustees (given the size of the community).

Fixing the Problem

The complexity in fixing this situation is that it involved amending the Charity’s “governing document” held by the Charity Commission – not trivial!

Fortunately, our Chair (Sarah Lofthouse) is a past master at “Charity-Commission-wrangling” , and following a couple of meetings/telephone conferences and letters we have a proposed new Governing Document (based on their requirements) which we have submitted and are awaiting their approval.

However, this also requires changes to the way we run the hall, and we wanted to update you on this – and that’s really what this post is all about….

Re-organisation

We have created a Working Group to run the Hall. This is composed of the FOUR Trustees, and others they appoint to help (the people you all know).

This is all explained in this document (Getting Legal: A New KVH Organisation)

Please take a read, and if it doesn’t make sense let one of us know.