12 Tips of Christmas for Charity Trustees:
Day 5

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5. Identify Priorities

Cooking Christmas dinner is a deft combination of the strategic and pragmatic. If we don’t put the turkey in the oven early enough, we’re likely to be waiting a long time to taste the fruits of our labour.

Yet, you must be aware of external influences - like the in-laws arriving late and putting at risk the bird drying-up. So it is when as a Trustee you adopt a specific strategy for your charity.

When you're on a mission it pays to be forward thinking in all your planning, with a Plan B always ready to call on, with funds available to meet the Charity’s obligations, so these do not similarly dry-up.