About the Charity Compliance Engine

Built by a compliance and governance practitioner, for the sector that needed it most.

Background

Why this exists

The Charity Compliance Engine was built because the compliance support available to small and medium Scottish charities is not proportionate to what is asked of them. The regulatory framework is substantial. The resources most charities have to navigate it are not.

Generic templates and one-size-fits-all guidance exist in abundance. What does not exist, for most charities, is access to the kind of structured, experienced, specific advice that tells a board, its senior staff and volunteers exactly where they stand and what they need to do about it.

The CCE was built to change that. Not as a technology experiment, but as a practical tool, developed through direct experience of working with Scottish charities and grounded in the governance and compliance expertise that Stuart Gilliland has applied across financial services and the charity sector for over three decades.

The builder

Who built it

The CCE is developed and operated by Stuart Gilliland through Integrity Nexus Ltd, a specialist consultancy with a track record in regulatory change, financial crime, and complex programme delivery across financial services and the charity sector.

Stuart has spent thirty years at the sharp end of high-stakes governance and compliance work: directing mandatory change programmes in UK and European banking, building financial crime functions at Nordic regional scale, and working directly with Scottish charities as a trustee and adviser. The CCE is an expression of that experience in a form that smaller organisations can access.

It is not a product handed to a development team. Stuart is involved in every pilot session, the knowledge base reflects his direct experience, and every refinement to the engine comes from real sessions with real charities.

Full background on Stuart and Integrity Nexus

How we work

The approach

The CCE operates as a governance adviser, not an information retrieval tool. It does not return search results or generate generic answers from the open internet. Every response is anchored in the specific profile of the charity in front of it, drawn from a curated knowledge base built from Scottish regulatory guidance and real governance experience, and scoped to a defined framework of Scottish and UK law.

The engine explains why an obligation exists, not just that it does. It calibrates its guidance to the size, activities and circumstances of each charity. And it produces outputs that boards can actually use: a plain-English review, draft policies, a PDF session record, and editable Word documents.

The goal is not to impress with the technology. It is to leave the trustees, staff and volunteers who took part better placed to govern their charity than they were before the session.

Find out if it is right for your charity

Pilot sessions are free and Stuart is directly involved in every one. If you are a Scottish charity navigating compliance pressure, we would like to hear from you.