Everything in Board Hub
59 items, each with what it does today. Working now means it runs on a real board. Areas and the AI agent are switched on board by board in Set-up.
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Fundraising
11 items
- Working nowThe shared funder register
166 funds from 78 funders. Each entry shows the funder’s source link and the date it was checked. Entries a person has yet to check say so.
- Working nowFunds for us
The board states where it is based, where it works and what its work is about. The register sorts funds into open now, opening soon and closed, and marks each one fits, check, or not open to you, with the funder’s reason.
- Working nowDocuments to have ready, and the latest start date
Each fund lists the documents to have ready, set against the board’s own library. Board Hub works out the latest start date from the close date, your preparation days and the funder’s lead time.
- Working nowThe funding desk and calendar
What has been won, what is waiting for a decision, what is being written and what is still to find, with what needs doing soonest first. Funder reports due appear on Home.
- Working nowEight steps from idea to report
Check fit, board agrees, write, sign off, submitted, decision, deliver, report. Each application shows its stage and its next thing to do.
- Working nowBoard agreement
An application is agreed by its own carried resolution or by a recorded standing authority with a limit and dates. Board Hub drafts the resolution and produces a one-page extract of it.
- Working nowWriting, versions and letters of support
Answers with live word counts and a version history. Letters of support are tracked as to ask, asked, received or declined.
- Working nowSign-off
A named voting officer signs the pack off. Signing freezes it with a fingerprint, and a pack changed since the officer opened it is refused. Board Hub sends nothing to a funder.
- Working nowCase for support and library
The board writes its need, its story and its evidence once. Applications are drafted from that shared case and tailored for each funder.
- Working nowDecision, conditions and delivery
Record approved, part approved or declined, with the amount. A voting trustee accepts the grant conditions. Thank-you, interim and final report dates are added from the board’s own day counts.
- Working nowFunder reports
The funder’s questions, answers with versions, figures recorded once, and sign-off by an officer.
Finance
5 items
- Working nowMoney from Xero, read-only
Bank balances, twelve months of income and spending, and bills waiting for approval, once your board connects Xero. Board Hub only reads. Payments are made in your bank.
- Working nowMoney on Home and in the board pack
A Money card on Home, and a Finance page in the board pack that is a dated copy of the Xero figures.
- Working nowPayment requests
The secretary records a payment request with its amount, purpose and documents. It moves from Intended to Approved, and who approved it is recorded. Board Hub does not move money.
- Working nowProject funding
A project marked as needing funding shows its target, what is won and the gap, and links to its applications.
- ComingFixed assets from Xero
Bring the assets your accounts already list into Things we own.
Governance, compliance and oversight
13 items
- Working nowComing due and Needs you
Home lists what is due soonest first: funder reports, policy and role-description reviews, equipment inspections and certificate expiry, and meetings whose date has passed. It is worked out from the records, never typed twice.
- Working nowLook-ahead
Each night the agent looks for things that need doing, such as a funder report due within 14 days or minutes ready to prepare, and raises them as suggestions.
- Working nowCalendar feed
Meetings and dates in your own calendar.
- Working nowMeetings and agendas
A standing agenda, an owner for each item, matters arising from the last meeting, guests, and a Nothing to raise button for an item with nothing on it.
- Working nowAttendance, quorum and declared interests
Who is present and whether the quorum is met. A register of interests with a history. A conflict declared at a meeting takes that trustee out of the vote.
- Working nowVotes and resolutions
Each trustee’s vote recorded. Resolutions between meetings are supported. Each resolution takes the next number in order.
- Working nowMinutes
Draft, then prepared, then approved by a different voting trustee at a later meeting, then sealed in the database. Past minutes can be imported.
- Working nowThe board pack
One PDF made when the meeting is ready, with a fingerprint so everyone holds the same version.
- Working nowActions and subcommittees
One list of actions with due dates. Overdue ones are flagged and open ones carry forward. Subcommittees have their own members.
- Working nowGovernance duties and policies
Trustee duties stated at the top of every agenda and the board pack. The policy list shows an owner and a review date for each policy, and nine standard policies can be added as empty drafts.
- Working nowChange history and Undo
Every change is recorded with who made it. A step taken by the AI agent can be undone.
- ComingEmail notice before a meeting, and a personal summary after
An email to each person before the meeting, and one afterwards with the notes and the actions that person has taken on. Today people see the meeting in their calendar and on Home, and see their own actions on Home.
- ComingCompliance calendar
Annual returns and filing dates in one calendar.
Why we exist and who we serve
5 items
- Working nowOur purpose
The purpose in plain words, who the trust serves, what they need and the change it wants. Every change is kept in a history. Home shows the purpose to every trustee.
- Working nowTrust record and officers
Registered name, charity number, balance date and reporting tier on one screen. Officers, their titles and who can sign in on a second screen.
- Working nowGoals and projects
Goals, the projects that deliver them and the actions under each project, visible to every trustee. The meeting page carries a project table the board updates at each meeting.
- Working nowRole descriptions
A written description for each role. The board approves it and it goes to whoever holds the role.
- Working nowDocuments
The trust deed, policies and other records together. Any document can be marked restricted, and the board chooses which documents the AI agent may read.
Are we making a difference
6 items
- Working nowSigns of progress
A few simple signs for each goal, with readings added through the year. They show on Home and in the board pack.
- Working nowFigures
People reached and similar figures recorded once. A correction shows what it replaced, and funder reports offer the corrected figure.
- Working nowStories and quotes
Kept with the consent of the person, and used in funding applications and funder reports. A child’s words carry a role label, never a name.
- Working nowAdd anything
Drop in a spreadsheet, a document or a note. The agent lists the figures and quotes it found, and a person checks them before anything is kept.
- Working nowThe difference we make, in the board pack
A section of the board pack that sets out the signs of progress, figures and stories for the year.
- Built, not in use yetWhat people tell us
Forms for the people the trust serves to say what difference it made. Answers are kept under the consent rules. Forms stay closed until the board’s privacy note has been checked.
People, equipment and safety
7 items
- Working nowVolunteers
A register of volunteers and their hours, a sign-up link the secretary can share, and onboarding steps: agreement, policy read and induction.
- Working nowThings we own
One register of what the board owns, including safety equipment, with inspection dates, insurance and emergency plans.
- Working nowJoining and leaving checklists
A checklist for each trustee who joins and each who leaves, including the Charities Register update.
- Working nowPaid staff
Staff sign in with a limited view: Home, purpose, goals and projects, and minutes once approved.
- Built, not in use yetKeeping children safe
The board’s child protection policy with an owner and a yearly ‘I have read it’ tap, its safeguarding officer, and counts of volunteers whose role needs a check and who have one in date. It shows counts, never names or results.
- Built, not in use yetSafety records
Incidents, risks, checks and duties, with restricted records visible only to the people the board names.
- Built, not in use yetConcerns and complaints
A concern can be raised through a link that needs no sign-in. The people who handle concerns are proposed by one person and confirmed by another.
The AI agent
7 items
- Working nowAsk a question
Answers come from your board’s own records, with the source shown. It is on every page.
- Working nowSmall changes with Undo
Changes that can be taken back are made at once, with an Undo button. A vote, sign-off, a payment, anything sent and anything on the public website always wait for a person to confirm.
- Working nowProposals a person confirms
For larger changes the agent shows a proposal with Confirm and Reject. Nothing is saved until a person confirms.
- Working nowRecord or upload a meeting
The secretary presses Record, or uploads a recording. The sound is turned into words with speaker labels, the secretary reads and cuts them, and the assistant suggests draft minutes, resolutions, actions and declared interests. The secretary ticks the ones that are right. Attendance, and who moved and seconded, are never taken from a recording. Off until your administrator switches it on in Set-up.
- Working nowMeeting notes to draft minutes
Add notes from a meeting and the agent drafts minutes. It never prepares or seals them, never takes attendance from the notes, and flags names it does not know.
- Working nowDrafts for funding answers and reports
A first draft from documents the board has ticked as readable. It never writes a number: figures come from your records, and a quote must appear in the passage it cites.
- Working nowLimits and switches
Off until your administrator switches it on in Set-up. Each board has a monthly usage limit, and the cost of AI use is included in the price.
Your board’s own system
2 items
- Working nowYour own database and address
Your board’s records sit in their own database in New Zealand, at an address such as yourtrust.cruxms.com. You can ask for a copy of your records at any time.
- Working nowSigning in, and on a phone
Invite a trustee to sign in by email. A More menu lists every screen with large tap targets, and Getting started on Home walks a new board through its first steps.
Also on the way
3 items
- Being builtSet up from your existing folders
Start a board from the minutes, policies and documents it already has, instead of typing them in.
- Being builtSign up and pay online
Today a person at Board Hub sets up each board after you apply.
- Being builtMarketing tools
Drafting and planning posts and emails for a person to approve. No date and no price yet.
Coming Risk and safety for outdoor activities with young people
For school boards, and for any trust that runs outdoor activities with young people. Board Hub is being joined with EOTC, education outside the classroom. There is no date yet.