NatCen's trustees

Our role and how we work

Our role as Trustees is to support NatCen by providing strategic direction and ensuring that its work is in line with its key purposes set out in its charity objects: "the advancement of education through research into the social political and economic sciences, the dissemination to the public of such research and for educational purposes incidental thereto".

Our key duties are:

To ensure that NatCen complies with its stated commitments, charity law, company law and any other relevant legislation or regulations.
To ensure that NatCen pursues its objects as defined in its Memorandum of Association.
To ensure that NatCen uses its resources exclusively in pursuance of its objects.
To contribute actively to the board of trustees' role in giving firm strategic direction to NatCen, setting overall policy, defining goals and setting targets and evaluating performance against agreed targets.
To safeguard the good name and values of NatCen.
To ensure the effective and efficient administration of NatCen.
To ensure the financial stability of NatCen.
To protect and manage NatCen's property and to ensure the proper investment of the charity's funds.
To appoint the Chief Executive and monitor his/her performance.

We bring a wide range of skills and experience to our role, from the commercial, not-for-profit and academic worlds. We meet as a Board three times a year at NatCen's offices in London, Edinburgh or Brentwood.

We also meet as a Board for away days at least once a year. We also carry out our work through a number of sub-committees:

Audit Committee: responsible for scrutinising financial and compliance reports and ensuring that NatCen has appropriate policies and controls in place.
Nominations Committee: responsible for selecting and appointing new Trustees.
Remuneration Committee: responsible for setting the remuneration of the Chief Executive and senior staf

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