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Expenses and Remuneration

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Whatever the structure your community group has – whether it is incorporated or not – and irrespective of its charitable status, your committee members (or Board of Directors) will be volunteers. In general they will not receive payment for their duties.

Committee members may, however, receive out of pocket expenses and there are some cases where it is permissible for Charity Trustees to receive direct or indirect remuneration.

Charity Trustee Remuneration 

Charity remuneration is defined in the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 as payment or benefit in kind (cash, goods, services etc) received either directly or indirectly by a charity trustee for:-

  • being a charity trustee
  • being an employee of the charity
  • other services to or on behalf of the charity

Direct Remuneration 

Payment made to or benefit given directly to the charity trustee in person.

Indirect Charity Trustee Remuneration 

Payment made to another person (such as members of a charity trustee’s family or business with whom the charity is connected) and from whom the charity trustee might derive benefit.

When is indirect remuneration allowed? 

To make sure that the Charity Trustees are complying with all legal requirements under the current charity legislation for Scotland, indirect remuneration is only permissible:-

  • with a written agreement between the Charity and the service provider setting out the agreed maximum amount of remuneration
  • with the agreement of all the Trustees
  • when the agreement will benefit less than half the total number of Trustees

and

  • the charity’s constitution does not expressly prohibit remuneration

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Conditions of Use
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