Recruitment

Trustee Recruitment Resources - see also Trustee Induction

Good Practice in Trustee Recruitment Toolkit - Hard file copy £15 or download from
www.trusteenet.org.uk/resources/trustee-recruitment-toolkit

www.trusteeworks.org.uk This site will help you to find a vacancy if you want to be a trustee. To recruit a trustee they charge a small fee, but it is worth looking at if you have tried and failed using free options.

www.do-it.org.uk For volunteers and volunteer opportunities

www.vol-centre.org.uk B&NES Volunteer Centre

www.trusteenet.org.uk this website offers a trusteefinder service and provides other useful information for you as a trustee.

www.sgoss.org.uk/freshfaces a campaign to recruit younger people as school governors. Some useful ideas and approaches.

Charity Commission publication: Finding New Trustees- what charities need to know (including CRB checks)
www.charitycommission.gov.uk and type CC30 into the search box

Trustee recruitment for small organisations
The Leadership and Governance workstream, led by NCVO have developed a trustee recruitment resource in partnership with NAVCA, Community Matters and the Community Sector Coalition. To access the toolkit see http://bit.ly/trsmallorg.

Young Trustees

The Charity Commission are promoting the role of younger trustees and have produced some research and guidance to help your organisation engage with younger people: http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Publications/rs23.aspx
Analysis of the Charity Commission's information on charity trustees shows that young people, defined as 18-24 year-olds, represent 0.5% of the trustee population across England and Wales, a figure that has remained the same over the past five years1 . Most of these young trustees are at the upper end of this age group. Yet this same age group represents around 12% of the adult population across the two countries. Further, many of these young trustees are potentially quite isolated as 80% of them are the sole young trustee on their charity's board.
The majority of young trustees are trustees of charities that have education/training as a charitable purpose and children/young people as the charity's main beneficiary class. This would indicate that most of the charitable sector still has a need to recognise the benefits of involving young people in their governance arrangements.

Trustee induction - a neglected necessity
Article printed in Third Sector, 22 June 2010 - subscribe to Third Sector bulletins.

As few as one in four charities runs induction training for trustees. Alex Blyth finds out why this is the case and looks at the options for charities that want to bring their trustees up to speed. Read more: Trustee Induction.