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

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.  

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 sessions, free for VCSE and non-profits. After each one hour session the facilitator will stay online for a further 30 minutes for informal networking and questions.

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

Thursday 19th June 1.30pm – 2.30pm- Online

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  Wednesday 24th September 1.30pm – 2.30pm. Book here.

Session three: How to Recruit Trustees: marketing and advertising techniques to find new trustees Tuesday 14th October 25      1.30pm – 2.30pm. Book here. 

The Training is delivered online using Zoom.

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.

Interested? Book a place your place today.

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 and the Bedrock Basics programme funded through Sellafield and supported by Cumbria Community Foundation . Priority for bookings will be given to organisations in Westmorland and Furness and West Cumbria and who are Cumbria CVS Members.