Imperial War Museum Trustees x5

Members of the Board have corporate responsibility for the general management and control of the Museum, subject to the terms set out in the Imperial War Museum Acts (1920 and 1955), subsequent amending legislation and other governing documents. It is their responsibility also to ensure that the Museum complies with any statutory or administrative requirements for the use of public funds. Specifically, the Board:

• Determines the general policy of the Museum;

• Appoints the Director-General of the Museum, with the approval of the Prime Minister;

• Monitors and oversees the Director-General’s management of the Museum. The Director-General is the Board’s chief executive and the Accounting Officer of the Museum;

• Has legal responsibility for the buildings, collections and financial assets of the Museum and their care and management;

• Approves the Museum’s Strategic Plan;

• Monitors the process of Risk Management within the Museum; and

• Publishes an annual report and account, audited by the Comptroller and Auditor-General.

Trustees are expected to understand and uphold the Seven Principles of Public Life as defined by the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Individual Trustees should therefore also be aware of their wider responsibility as members of the Board – namely to comply at all times with the Code of Practice for Board Members of Public Bodies as adopted by the IWM; and with the rules relating to the use of public funds and to conflicts of interest; and to act in accordance with the requirements of Charity law where this applies.

Trustees must be positive advocates for the Museum. They will exercise drive with due tact and discretion as members of a corporate body with a collective and strategic role.