About CharityControl

CharityControl was built by a trustee, for trustees.

Stephen Edginton began as a volunteer at the Society of Botanical Artists, where his wife volunteered too. He later joined the board as a trustee. The Society is an artists' society founded in 1985, and a registered charity since 1995.

The trustees ran it well and the meetings were run properly. Keeping track between meetings was the hard part. Actions, deadlines, registers and policies each sat somewhere different, so nobody could see the whole picture at once. Board portals handle meeting papers. None of them handled the governance itself.

Stephen looked for software that held it all together, could not find any, and built it.

In CharityControl the registers feed each other. Every deadline has an owner and a reminder. Decisions are recorded the moment they're made. A live view shows each governance control and the evidence behind it, so you can show your charity is well run rather than take it on trust.

CharityControl is made in the UK, with working trustees as design partners. We use public Charity Commission data. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Charity Commission.

The commitment

No small charity should have to pay just to understand its trustee duties, get a solid policy template or do basic trustee training.

That's why charitycontrol.org exists. The guides, templates and the Charity Control Check are free and complete, and you can use them without an account for as long as the site exists. The paid platform earns its keep by keeping governance alive, with owners, reminders, versions and evidence.