# New guidelines on financial governance for trustees published - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/05/15/new-guidelines-financial-governance-trustees-published/ - Published: 2017-05-15T08:30:58+01:00 - Author: Melanie May **ACEVO and Rathbones have published a guide to help trustees understand what is expected of them in terms of the governance of their charity’s finances.**   The [ACEVO](https://www.acevo.org.uk/) and [Rathbones](https://www.rathbones.com/) _Financial Governance: a gentle guide for the non-financial charity trustee_ is specifically targeted at new or less experienced trustees who may lack the knowledge and/or confidence of the key issues in this area. It will be distributed to around 15,000 charity trustee contacts via _Charity Times_, and has been written by Dorothy Dalton, formerly chief executive of ACEVO and editor of _Governance_ magazine. ## Advertisement   Vicky Browning, CEO of ACEVO, said:   > “This guide is designed as a first and gentle introduction to charity finances, > aimed at trustees who haven’t had experience of this area before. > “By giving it to new or less experienced trustees and even experienced trustees > who lack confidence when it comes to financial governance, you can steer them > towards the areas where they should have informed oversight, and give them the > confidence to know they’re asking the right questions to meet their duties.”   [The guide is free to ACEVO members](https://www.acevo.org.uk/publications/financial-guide-for-nonfinancial-trustees) and available at £9.99 to non-members. * **[Charity governance, pay and perception](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/08/24/charity-governance-pay-perception/)**( 24 August 2017) * **[Charity Governance Awards offer £35k for UK’s best charity boards](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/10/04/charity-governance-awards-offer-35k-uks-best-charity-boards/)**( 4 October 2017) * **[Government publishes response to Stronger Charities for a Stronger Society report](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/12/21/government-publishes-response-stronger-charities-stronger-society-report/)**( 21 December 2017) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)