A charity trustee is a technical legal term which encompasses anybody who is responsible for the governing of a charity and involved in the key decision-making. In a company charity these people will normally be the same as the board of directors. In a trust charity it will be the trustees and in an unincorporated association (i.e. a membership organisation which is not a corporate body) it will be the elected management committee. Employees of the charity will not normally be charity trustees and indeed there is normally a prohibition on people being paid for their role as a charity trustee.