What is Governance360?

Governance360 is an affordable UK board portal designed for smaller organisations including charities, housing associations, sports clubs, credit unions, and SMEs. It provides risk registers, action tracking, compliance management, and a board portal in one secure, easy-to-use platform, built for smaller organisations.

Who is Governance360 designed for?

Governance360 is built for smaller UK organisations with up to 200 employees that need professional board governance tools without enterprise-level complexity or cost. This includes registered charities, CICs, CIOs, housing associations, sports clubs and national governing bodies, credit unions, and SMEs with volunteer or part-time boards.

How is Governance360 different from Convene, AdminControl or OnBoard?

Governance360 is specifically designed and priced for smaller UK organisations. Enterprise platforms like Convene and Onboard are built for large corporates and are often too expensive and complex for charities and SMEs. Governance360 offers the core governance features smaller organisations need — risk registers, compliance tracking, board minute distribution, and action management — at an affordable price point with a simpler, more intuitive interface. Prices are fixed per organisation and start from £25 per month on an annual plan. Governance360 also offers a free trial.

Does Governance360 help with charity compliance?

Yes. Governance360 supports and helps compliance with the Charity Governance Code, charity SORP requirements, and sector-specific governance frameworks although it does not claim to make its customers fully compliant. The platform includes compliance monitoring, governance health assessments, and automated tracking to help charity trustees and CEOs stay on top of their regulatory obligations and contribute towards their work in this area.

What is a board portal?

A board portal is a secure digital platform that helps organisations manage board meetings, documents, and governance processes. It replaces email chains, shared drives, and paper board packs with a centralised, secure system for agenda management, document sharing, action tracking, risk registers, and compliance monitoring.

What company is behind Governance360?

Governance360 is a trading name of Board Secure Ltd, an active company registered in England and Wales with its registered office in Cardiff. Board Secure Ltd develops and operates the Governance360 board portal. Please note that Governance360 Limited is a separate, dormant company and is a subsidiary company of Board Secure Ltd (acquired to protect the brand name but not trading).

Is Governance360 suitable for volunteer boards?

Absolutely. Governance360 is specifically designed with volunteer and part-time board members in mind. The interface is simple and intuitive so trustees and directors who are not tech-savvy can use it confidently. It reduces the administrative burden on volunteer boards by automating governance tasks and centralising all board information in one place.

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Are there any set-up fees?

No, there are no set-up fees or charges to get going with Governance360. Indeed, we make it as quick, and as pain free as possible to get you up and running.

How long does the Free Trial last?

Broadly speaking as long as you want in order to make up your mind.

In reality though most triallists use Governance360 for one meeting (internal to test, internal for a ‘real’ meeting or in ‘real life’ with their Board – the choice is yours).

We have found that most users quickly make up their mind (and luckily for us most realise really quickly how much time and effort we save them).

Last – there is no credit card or payment upfront required to trial. What do you have to lose – start your free trial today.

How does the 30-day refund work?

We don’t want you to fail. But recognise that you probably haven’t seen or used anything like Governance360 before and hence need to be happy before putting down hard cash.

Whilst you can proceed under your own steam, we also offer the QuickStart with us, mostly (so that we can personalise and tailor what you see to what you need to begin with. Only once set up on the platform, and having run your first meeting (most peoples choice of ‘key deliverable’ as part of their initial free trial) do we invoice you.

Get a good look at what we offer, and how we can save you hassle before you commit, in other words. And we go beyond this too – at the point of invoice our 30-day refund starts giving you even longer to make up your mind.

Really, there is nothing to lose!

Can I break up payments rather than pay in one go?

Whilst most people want to lock into a one year (or more) subscription up front to ensure prices don’t rise and their budget is fixed, we do, through our partner GoCardless, offer a Direct Debit option if you want to pay monthly instead.

(although please note that our 30 day refund offer doesn’t apply to monthly payments).

To enquire about being charged monthly and setting up a Direct Debit please contact us directly and we’ll set something up for you post QuickStart.

Can I remove my data if I don't want to keep using Governance360?

How much training do I, or our board members need, to start a trial?

Whilst we are very happy to spend time with you as an Admin when you set-up your organisation on Governance360, we have deliberately built the platform to be as intuitive as possible. The short answer therefore is that no training is generally needed to trial, or indeed adopt, Governance360.

Board members after all frequently change – and we don’t want to cost you every time someone leaves or joins by needing to invest in yet more training.

The easiest way to prove this though is to start a trial – why not do that now?

Can I try a module of the Academy for free?

We are sorry, but unless you are part of a programme where this is offered, then no.

The courses are one-off, accredited for CPD purposes as a curated piece of learning, and to that end are products that once consumed cannot be refunded.

We hope you understand.

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