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Shantha Appano, Trustee, The Bear, Deptford.
This page details the information on how to become a trustee or how to register your trustee vacancies, specifically in relationship to the Governance Hub’s ‘Get on Board’ campaign.
The main aims of the ‘Get on Board’ campaign are to increase awareness of trusteeship and to inspire people with the right skills such as business and experience from a range of backgrounds to consider becoming a trustee. The campaign responds to a Governance Hub survey that found 93% of boards have between one and five vacancies, and that 43% find it more difficult to recruit trustees now, the Organisations supporting the 'Get on Board' campaign
To register your interest in becoming a trustee:- Submit the on-line registration formMore information on trusteeship and the 'Get on Board' campaign.
To register trustee vacancies, voluntary and community organisations can either:
Contact their local Volunteer Centre. Their details can be found at www.volunteering.org.uk/finder, or go direct to www.do-it.org.uk/needvolunteersAlternatively, there are a number of other organisations that maintain registers of potential trustees, or offer varying levels of a trustee brokerage service, matching potential trustees with vacancies on the boards of charities. Please click here for the list of other trustee recruitment providers.
The Governance Hub has a range of resources to help voluntary and community organisations in their trustee recruitment process:
The downloadable Trustee Recruitment Toolkit sets out good practice for seeking the best people to govern a community or voluntary organisation. It covers a 10 step process to recruit trustees and highlights a number of best practice case studies.
The Hub also runs a number of workshops and events about trustee recruitment. A full list is shown in our events sectionThe hub has more resources available on more specific trustee recruitment issues, which can be found on the Hub’s Governance Resource Library.
There are a number of other key publications that can help in trustee recruitment. The Charity Commissions report ‘CC30 – Finding New Trustees - What charities need to know' examines how charities select, recruit and induct new trustees. It draws on studies of Charity Commission cases and an NFP survey of the trustee recruitment, selection and induction practices in selected charities. The NCVO's guide ‘Recruiting and Supporting Black and Minority Ethnic Trustees' has useful information and advice. This guide follows the launch of the Black and Minority Ethnic Voluntary and Community Sector Code of Good Practice.
The following voluntary organisations provide advertising space for trustee opportunities on their websites, which may provide a useful means of publicising opportunities for organisations with a limited budget:
Encourages its members to reinvest their skills by becoming trustees and treasurers for other organisations and offers a free advertising service to organisations seeking a new trustee or treasurer.
Works in partnership with 550 UK charities and 8 leading specialist recruitment agencies to provide a recruitment advertising service.
Runs educational programmes, campaigns, websites and awards for leaders. Provides information and opportunities for people who want to take a lead in public life.
do-it is the UK 's national volunteering database with 450,000 volunteering opportunities supplied by Volunteer Bureaux and national/regional organisations and UKcompanies. The database includes a trustee category and they have recently set up a new editorial section promoting trusteeships which includes a trustee specific vacancy search facility.
governance is the first publication aimed at charity trustees together with their chief executives and company secretaries. Organisations can post their upcoming trustee vacancies online for free here.
NCVO’s advertises trustee vacancies on its website.
A popular journal specialising in information, news and features for VCOs
The Society section of the Guardian advertises trustee (and volunteering) opportunities on a Wednesday
A popular journal specialising in information, news and features for VCOs; extensive recruitment section in weekly magazine
Introduces barristers who are interested in becoming trustees to suitable VCOs with a board vacancy.
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators provides a board placement service as part of the professional support it offers to its members. VCOs can advertise vacancies in its trustee database.
Get on Board is a scheme that aims at matching skilled and experienced candidates to board vacancies within our member housing associations.
Recruits people with professional, business, managerial or technical career experience, and places them with voluntary organisations who need their expertise.
Provides a Board Bank service giving arts organisations and museums free access to potential board members.
Offers a trustee appointment service, finding trustees to fill trustee vacancies identified by the VCO, including needs analysis, register search, individual search, advertising and interviewing.
A specialist jobs broker in the not for profit sector; provides trustee recruitment, induction and training service.
A support network for senior executive women working in London; maintains its own register for trustee appointments, which is available to organisations who contact the network for trustees.
Provides recruitment solutions in the not-for-profit sector, including for trustee roles.
Provides a specialist, independent consultancy service for Board recruitment, development and support in the not-for-profit sector.
Provides recruitment services to find high board level positions
Provides Non-executive director\board appointments in both the public and private sectors.
Support with trustee recruitment is available from infrastructure agencies in the voluntary and community sector, including:
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