Administration, Personal development
Key Guides: Minute Taking
This easy-to-read guide offers tried-and-tested techniques, as well as new creative ideas for recording decisions and summarising meetings
Pre-order now, publishes May 2025
This book shows you why minutes matter and how they are vitally important to all organisations to document meetings. This edition, updated by new lead author Kirsty Semple, takes into account both online and in-person meetings and the increasing use of technology to manage and preserve the integrity of minutes.
Using practical examples, the book provides essential, in-depth guidance on how to produce accurate, brief and clear minutes which meet all legal requirements. It includes many tips and techniques to ease the task of minute taking and to lessen the amount of time it can take to produce minutes.
Who should buy this book?
Whether you take minutes regularly or occasionally, or you are involved in managing or chairing meetings and want to be more effective, this book makes indispensable reading.
What does it cover?
It includes information about the:
- Importance of data management and security
- Impact of virtual meetings on the minute-taking process
- Increasing importance of minutes as regulatory and legal documents
‘This book helps you to understand the utmost importance of minute takers’ role and how to communicate this to others.’
Elizabeth Crosley, Secretary to Group Head of Fundraising, RSPCA
‘Our trustees loved the book so much that they insisted that it was recorded in their own minutes.’
Andie Barlow, Principal Administrator, Institute of Family Therapy
Look inside
Have a look inside at the previous edition Key Guides: Minute Taking.
About the authors
Kirsty Semple
Kirsty Semple ACIS LLM is a governance consultant and is Director of Semple Associates Ltd, formed in 2001. She is also editor of the ICSA Charities Handbook. Specialising in corporate governance and compliance, Kirsty has provided consultancy, training and support to boards of numerous voluntary sector organisations for 18 years. Before going into public practice, Kirsty was Company Secretary of the disability charity Scope. She now acts as secretary for a range of organisations, including the Born Free Foundation and the National Garden Scheme.
Paul Ticher
Paul’s whole career has been in the voluntary sector, mostly as an independent consultant and trainer working with national and local organisations. After working for some years as a volunteer in Africa and then with the Campaign Against Arms Trade, his focus of interest became information management, including such areas as the use of information technology and the management of information services. This led to a considerable amount of work on the application of the Data Protection Act 1984 to voluntary organisations. He wrote the first edition of Data Protection for Voluntary Organisations in 2000 to coincide with the Data Protection Act 1998 coming into force. Since then, Paul has been a leading trainer and writer on data protection throughout the UK, and he has provided bespoke advice to many voluntary organisations, large and small. For many years he has been recognised as one of the sector’s go-to experts on data protection.
Paul’s books, currently published by the Directory of Social Change, include Minute Taking – 2nd edition (with Lee Comer) andData Protection for Voluntary Organisations – 4th edtion. He also contributed the data protection appendix for The Complete Fundraising Handbook – 7th edition and published numerous articles and research reports into aspects of IT management in the voluntary sector.
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