Our Board and Governance
At the heart of our mission is a strong and dedicated governance structure, ensuring accountability, transparency, and effective leadership. Together, this governance structure upholds the charity’s integrity, ensuring that we operate with the highest standards of leadership and service.
Business in the Community Board of Trustee Directors
Business in the Community is governed by a Board of Trustee Directors whose role is to guide the charity’s strategic direction and safeguard our values and commitments.
Our Vice Presidents
Supporting the board are our Vice Presidents, lending their experience and influence to promote our work and extend our reach.
Our Royal Founding Patron, His Majesty The King
His Majesty The King is our Founding Patron, whose vision and dedication to our cause continue to inspire and elevate our efforts. His longstanding commitment provides invaluable support, reinforcing the charity’s purpose and enhancing our ability to create meaningful change.
As Prince of Wales, and now HM The King, our Royal Founding Patron has championed and supported business involvement in communities to create a fairer, greener world. He has led some 600 engagements for BITC, and his leadership, commitment and personal beliefs have driven the movement of responsible business in the UK. Always, driving the agenda forward, as Prince of Wales, HM’s work covered issues as broad as diversity and inclusive representation within and for communities, to sustainability and climate change. To supporting community entrepreneurs, local purchasing, farming and the countryside, and the secondments of ‘business connectors’ to help bring business support and expertise to problems affecting local people.
A day in Spitalfields
HRH The Prince of Wales, President of BITC, returned to Spitalfields in February 1989 to see training schemes which are bridging the gap between City of London employers and the unemployed in the East End of London. The Prince’s tour ended at the Lloyd’s Building in the City.
Seeing is Believing Begins
Initiated by HRH The Prince of Wales, BITC takes senior business leaders into inner city housing estates, schools and community projects to see the challenges facing the UK and demonstrate simple ways that companies can get involved to benefit both business and the community.
BITC 40th Anniversary
His Majesty the King joined BITC Central Hall Westminster in 2022 to mark the 40th anniversary of the organisation and to meet with business leaders who have been driving the responsible business agenda since 1982.
How we are funded
Business in the Community’s charitable activities are funded by business members, the public sector and charitable foundations with whom we collaborate. These funds comprise membership subscriptions, donations and grants which support businesses in their responsible business activities and beneficiaries in communities across the UK. Business in the Community does not raise money to pay for its activities from members of the public.