Trustee Recruitment for Small Organisations

This resource has been designed to help you find, recruit, induct and keep trustees. It has been developed with small voluntary and community organisations (VCO’s) in mind.

Visit: Trustee Recruitment for Small Organisations for more information

Run your own trustee recruitment campaign

 A trustee recruitment campaign may be an effective way to support the organisations you work with to recruit and retain trustees.  NCVO (The National Council for Voluntary Organisations) want to help you to promote trusteeship as a great way to volunteer and support the work of an organisation.

NCVO have created a range of resources to help infrastructure organisations run local or sub-sector specific campaigns to help increase the supply of trustees.  All materials can be adapted and tailored so you can include your own logos, partnerships, contact details and are designed to meet the needs of the organisations you support. 

Visit: The Trustee Recruitment Challenge for the full campaign pack

TrusteElearning.org.uk - a training system for Trustees

This e-learning website, has been produced by SAVO (Suffolk Association of Voluntary Organisations) to provide Trustees with easy access to a self paced training system.

In addition to providing training the website is a useful source of reference information.
 Visit: http://trusteelearning.org/ to find out more, you will also be able to access a list of Available Courses

Trustees are the people responsible for ensuring that a charity or community organisation has a clear strategy, that it remains true to its original vision, and that it complies with all necessary rules and legal obligations. Collectively, trustees are known as the board and they have a number of formal roles and responsibilities, which include appointing key people and keeping a check on the organisation's finances and activities. Being a trustee is an incredibly important role, which makes a huge difference to the success and impact of charities of every size. Trustees look after a staggering £39 billion of funds for the 190,000 registered charities in England and Wales.

Trustees
National Occupational Standards for Trustees set out the skills that trustees and management committee members should have as well as what they should know and understand in order to govern their organisations well.

The National Occupational Standards for Trustees have been written by a group of people who have direct experience of governing voluntary sector organisations. Read about how you can use the National Occupational Standards for Trustees or download the standards from Skills – Third Sector