Charities that champion best practice in their quality standards should be applauded and, from January 2007, charities meeting best practice criteria can now apply for Charity Commission endorsement of their quality standards.
Age Concern and YMCA England joined Community Foundation Network as the first charities with Commission-endorsed quality standards, including areas such as accountable governance structures, conflicts of interest policies and managing staff and volunteers.
We'll now consider for endorsement the quality standards developed by umbrella charities for their members who meet the criteria for good practice laid down in our publication The Hallmarks of an Effective Charity (CC60).
This new accolade for good-practice charities forms just part of our wider partnership strategy which was launched in January. It can be found on our website under ‘Strategies, Plans and Reports’:
