cheques

How many signatories are required on a charity's cheques?

With regard to cheque and BACS signing I would appreciate some best practice comments please. A regional based charity with a turnover in excess of £1m with seven trustees.  Legal advice says that two trustees should sign all cheques over £200.  Given that trustees are spread far and wide throughout the region and are all busy people, this idea is hopelessly impractical. For charities say between £1m and £5m turnover, what would a good signing regime be?  And for really big charities when would such signing be taken on board by the senior members of staff?


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