FOR CHARITIES, CHURCHES AND NONPROFITS OF EVERY SIZE
Protect the money.
Protect the mission.
Table Stewards shows you how to safeguard your organisation’s finances and assets through good governance, effective risk management and sound internal controls — whatever your size. Start with Accountable by Design, the step-by-step fraud-prevention system written for small charities and nonprofits, and grow into the tools built for every stage after that.
Accountable by Design — the new book by Abi Areh, with the TRUST Financial Integrity Framework™ and a 90-day implementation roadmap.
CHARTERED PUBLIC FINANCE ACCOUNTANT (CIPFA) ◆ CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT (ICAN) ◆ AUDITOR ◆ ACCREDITED COUNTER FRAUD SPECIALIST ◆ CHARITY TRUSTEE EXPERIENCE ◆ PUBLIC SECTOR & NONPROFIT EXPERIENCE
ONE SYSTEM, SIZED TO YOUR ORGANISATION
Everything here teaches the same system
Proportionate safeguards that fit the organisation you actually run. Start where you are:
SMALL OR STARTING OUT
Building your foundations
Accountable by Design gives you the five TRUST controls a small team can genuinely run — no bureaucracy, no jargon — with every template included free.
ESTABLISHED OR LARGER
Governing and assuring
Articles and guidance on risk management, board effectiveness and assurance — with board-level training on the way. Join the newsletter to hear about it first.
NO COST · NO RISK · START TODAY
Start where you are — free
The 5-Minute Quiz
Ten yes-or-no questions. An instant score. Find out how exposed your organisation really is — before anyone else does.
Free Chapters
Read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Accountable by Design — the Thursday-morning phone call every trustee should read.
The Reader Toolkit
Already have the book? Claim every template, policy and checklist as free, fully editable Word and Excel downloads.
FREE GUIDANCE
Practical articles, by topic
Controls, risk and governance for charities, churches and nonprofits — written in plain English for the people who carry the responsibility.
Internal Control
Cash handling, segregation of duties, reconciliation, audit trail, collusion and cyber security — the everyday disciplines that keep funds where they belong.
Risk Management
Contracts, conflicts of interest, business continuity, protecting income — seeing what could go wrong, and deciding what to do about it.
Governance
Boards, trustees, PCCs and leadership teams — the oversight and culture that hold everything else together.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Abi Areh
Abi Areh is a chartered accountant, auditor, and accredited counter fraud specialist with extensive experience across the public sector and nonprofit world. She has investigated fraud, advised boards rebuilding after financial crises, and served as a charity trustee.
She founded Table Stewards on one conviction: most organisations don’t fail from bad intentions — they fail because no one ever showed them what strong financial stewardship looks like in practice.
FROM THE BLOG
Practical guidance, every month
One practical improvement, every issue
Join trustees, treasurers and charity leaders getting clear, usable guidance on protecting their organisation’s finances — no jargon, no noise.