The Woodland Trust Trustees’ Declaration of Interests

Some of these transactions may also require the consent of the members of the Trust, members of the Board or the Charity Commission. [...] Examples include: a trustee who was also a director of the charity’s subsidiary trading company a trustee is an employee, councillor or otherwise involved with a body funding the charity a trustee who owns property adjacent to the property of the charity or a property that the charity is considering purchasing a trustee who has an advisory relationship with the charity or has an advisory r. [...] Under the Charities Act, a connected person includes: a) a trustee for the charity b) a person who is the donor of any land to the charity c) a child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother or sister of any such trustee or donor d) an officer, agent or employee of the charity e) the spouse or civil partner of any person falling within any of sub-paragraphs above f) a person carrying on business. [...] Where conflict of interest and duty may arise and the interest relates to a matter under discussion, the Trust must decide whether the interest: category (a) - is trivial and does not create a real danger of conflict of interest and duty or bias or the appearance of bias category (b) - does not create a real danger of conflict of interest and duty or bias, but might reasonably cause others to. [...] Generally, the Board will deal with conflicts as follows: In the event that the interest falls into: category (a), the trustee must not vote category (b), it shall be at the discretion of the other trustees (who do not themselves have an interest in the matter) whether the trustee may remain in the meeting, but the trustee must not participate in the discussion or vote on the matter category.