The Governance App Report

What does this report explore?

This report presents and analyses data from 1,126 users who completed a full governance review between August 2021 and May 2024 using DSC’s Governance App, a free online tool that enables trustees to assess their effectiveness in the seven areas of the Charity Governance Code.

Trustees and executive teams were asked to rate how much they disagreed or agreed with 70 statements about their organisation’s governance practices on a scale of 0 (disagree) to 10 (agree).

The data provides useful insights in to how confidently trustees and executive teams felt that their organisation was meeting the highest standards around seven governance areas which directly match those of the Charity Governance Code: Organisational Purpose, Integrity, Leadership, Board Effectiveness, Equality Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), Openness and Accountability and Decision-making, Risk and Control.

The report uses self-reported, subjective data; however, it provides a unique insight from thousands of individual trustees and senior charity leaders on areas of governance in which users felt their organisations were doing well or where they felt areas were more challenging.