Sandy Adirondack is a freelance management consultant and trainer working exclusively in the voluntary/not-for-profit sector: she is an NCVO approved consultant 2010. Her main specialism is legal aspects of voluntary sector governance and management, and helping boards become more effective.
Her website http://www.sandy-a.co.uk/   includes a legal update service and this can help to keep organisations up to date with changes in the law. There are also direct links to government guidance, regulations and the legislation itself on the website.

Two further updates have been produced since our last e bulletin in February 2010:

• Legal update 1009: 18/3/10 - Data protection & freedom of information and
• Legal update 1008: 15/3/10 - Governance; charity law

Legal update 1008 includes a plain English guide on data protection amongst other items. Legal update 1009 includes new versions of the charity commission's CC3 ‘The essential trustee' and CC10 ‘Hallmarks of an effective charity' plus much more.

To find out more about the above topics and also to register you for regular legal updates just go to the Sandy Adirondack website http://www.sandy-a.co.uk/