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Trustee Briefing on AI — A Ready-to-Use Board Paper
A board paper UK charity CEOs can take straight to their next trustee meeting — strategic context, risks and mitigations, a phased plan, and the explicit decisions you're asking the board to take.
- Written in trustee-ready language — no jargon, no hype
- Phased plan trustees can actually approve
- Risks paired with concrete mitigations
- Editable DOCX you can drop into your board template
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What's inside Trustee Briefing on AI
Strategic context
Why AI matters for your charity's mission, beneficiaries and operating model — without the buzzwords.
Risk and mitigation
Data, reputational, beneficiary, vendor, financial and legal risks with proportionate, costed mitigations.
A phased adoption plan
Foundations → pilots → embedded use, with clear gates and resource asks at each stage.
Roles and accountability
Who owns AI: CEO, SLT, trustees, DPO and the proposed AI Working Group.
Decisions to seek
Specific, board-ready resolutions you can lift straight into your minutes.
Budget framing
Honest cost ranges for tools, training and oversight in year 1 and year 2.
Avoid the common pitfalls
No board paper at all
AI showing up in informal staff conversations but never on a board agenda is itself a governance failure.
All risk, no plan
Listing AI risks without a path forward leaves trustees nervous and the charity stuck.
All hype, no honesty
Trustees see through "AI will transform our charity" pitches. Be specific and proportionate.
No decision asks
Information-only papers waste agenda time. Bring named decisions to seek.
How it works
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Open the briefing
Read in-app or download the DOCX you can paste into your board template.
Customise to your charity
Replace the bracketed sections with your context — about an hour of work.
Take it to the board
Use the decision asks to leave the meeting with explicit, minuted approvals.
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