Trustees
Our governing document is the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, which designates Fife Health Board as a corporate Trustee of our charity. This means that the Trustees are, and can only be, the Board Members of NHS Fife. The 1978 Act means that our charity is legally responsible for all donations made to any ward, hospital or service within NHS Fife, as these donations cannot be made to the health board itself.
The Trustees are solely responsible and accountable for all aspects of the governance and operations of the charity. The Board of Trustees is supported to execute its governance responsibilities by a Grants Committee and a Finance Committee. Each committee has delegated authority to take forward the charity’s work in sustainably delivering our strategy and charitable purpose.
Read our page on the Scottish Charity Regulator website (OSCR)
Policies and procedures
Below you can find further information about our:
Fundraising & donations policy
Our Fundraising Guarantee to you
Fundraising is the life blood of many Scottish charities and we need to raise funds from voluntary sources. We could not fulfil our charitable mission without the support of generous, thoughtful and committed donors. We value the support of donors and understand the need to balance our duties to beneficiaries, with our duties to donors.
That’s why we make this commitment to you.
We will comply with the law as it applies to charities and fundraising and we commit that we will guarantee to adhere to best practice as outlined in the Fundraising Code of Practice.
We will monitor fundraisers, volunteers and third parties working with us to raise funds, ensuring that they also comply with this Code of Practice.
We guarantee to operate in line with the values of the Code; to be Legal, Open, Honest and Respectful in all our fundraising. To promote and underpin these values, we commit to the following standards:
- We will be clear about who we are and what we do
- We will give a clear explanation of how you can make a gift and change or stop a regular donation
- If you do not want to give or wish to cease giving, we will respect your decision
- We will respect your rights and privacy
- We have a procedure for dealing with people in vulnerable circumstances and it will be published on our website or will otherwise be available on request
- We will hold your data securely
- We will communicate with you in accordance with your selected preferences.
If you feel we have not adhered to these standards, or think we could do better, please contact the Charity Director on fife.healthcharity@nhs.scot. You can find out more about out complaint process here.
We commit to ensuring our complaints process is clear and easily accessible and we will provide clear and evidence-based reasons for our decisions on complaints.
However, should you be dissatisfied with our response, you will be able to take this further by contacting the Scottish Fundraising Standards Panel: www.goodfundraising.scot
