Supercharge your Trustee Recruitment!

Join us to unlock the energy you need to find the next Trustees for your board. Get top tips, tools, templates and hear best practice on how to go about your trustee recruitment.

The Training is held on Teams and is made up of three sessions:

• 4 November – Monday 12 noon – 1.30pm
• 11 November – Monday 12 noon – 1.30pm
• 20 November – Wednesday 12 noon – 1.30pm

We know that getting the best Trustees for your organisation can be a critical factor in your organisation developing in the best way. And we also know that it is really difficult to recruit Trustees. Please join us for three sessions that we have designed to support you to recruit the brilliant Trustees you need.

These sessions will share best practice in Trustee Recruitment and top tips to get you started. We will introduce 2 or 3 tools per session for you to try immediately and apply as soon as possible to kick start your Trustee recruitment.

The course is made up of 3 one hour, lunch time sessions, free for VCSE and non-profits working in the Furness and Westmorland areas of Cumbria. After each one hour session the facilitator will stay online for a further 30 minutes for informal networking and questions.

Session Overview:

Session one

Top Tips for Good Governance – what to do before recruiting new trustees

Join us for a short session packed with tips, tools and best practice advice to help you recruit the best trustees for your organisation.

This Session will cover

• A reminder on the roles and responsibilities of a Trustee
• How to look at the skills of existing Trustees and a Board

· How to identify the skills and experience your board needs to lead your charity

• Importance of board diversity and how to bring in different and diverse skills that you have not had in your board before

Tools covered in this session include:

– Organisation health check

– Skills Audit

– Diversity Audit

Session Two

Getting ready to Recruit Trustees: key tools and templates for your trustee recruitment

Join us for a short session packed with tips, tools and best practice advice to help you recruit the best trustees for your organisation.

This Session will cover

– Review and develop trustee role descriptions

– Design of your trustee recruitment process and procedures and timetable

– Develop Trustee Recruitment Advert

– Interview checklist – sharing best practice thinking

– Interviewing – checklist, interview questions, references, appointing (best practice examples) – Caroline ideas here on diversity?

Plan your recruitment process, draw up a trustee role description, and get ready to engage with candidates.

Templates covered in this session include

– Trustee Role Description

– Trustee Application Form

– Interview Checklist

Tools covered in this session include

– Recruitment plan

Session Three

How to Recruit Trustees: marketing and advertising techniques to find new trustees

Join us for a short session packed with tips, tools and best practice advice to help you recruit the best trustees for your organisation.

This Session will cover:

– Developing a trustee recruitment marketing plan

– Developing Marketing Materials, including case studies and content

– Targeting and advertising for a new trustees

– Diversifying trustee boards including targeting young people, skilled professionals and retired people

– Working with the local media to promote trustee volunteering roles

– Utilising existing business and other networks

– Utilising the Volunteering Cumbria Portal

– Signposting to specific trustee recruitment websites

Templates covered in this session include

– Volunteer Trustee Poster

– Volunteer Trustee Social Media Graphic

Tools covered in this session include

– Volunteer Trustee Recruitment Plan

The Training is delivered online using Teams.

Overall outcomes

· Learners will understand the stages of trustee recruitment and what they need to do at each point of the trustee recruitment journey

· Learners will have knowledge of key tools, templates and best practice in how to recruit trustees

· Learners will know where to go to get further support in trustee recruitment

· Learners will have used tools in the sessions so they will be able to put them into action immediately following the sessions

For each session you will need:

· Computer or laptop with the ability to use Teams

· Internet

· Pen and paper

After each one hour session the facilitator will stay online for a further 30 minutes for informal networking and questions. The event will appear as a 90 minute appointment in your calendar but there is only 60 minutes of core content. You do not have to stay for the full 90 minutes – only if you have questions or want to network.

You don’t have to attend all 3 sessions, but we do encourage it if you can as each session build on previous knowledge gained.

Available for a maximum of 2 places per organisation.

This event is part of our This Is Us project, made possible by Westmorland and Furness Council through funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Priority for bookings will be given to organisations in Westmorland and Furness which are Cumbria CVS Members.

We expect this training to have a high number of sign-ups so please do let us know well in advance if you will no longer be able to attend or if a delegate name needs to change.

To book your place on the event please click below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supercharge-your-trustee-recruitment-tickets-1022444006547

Data Protection

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