{"id":3140,"date":"2014-02-20T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2014-02-20T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T15:10:16","slug":"recruiting-new-trustees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2014\/02\/recruiting-new-trustees\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting new Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Finding the right Trustees to join your board is a challenge; and it\u2019s a challenge that faces charities across the country.\u00a0<\/strong> Finding ways to encourage people to volunteer to join your board is one thing.\u00a0 Making sure they are the right people with the right skills and attitudes that will benefit the organisation is another thing.\u00a0 So how to go about it.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly here\u2019s a great resource.\u00a0 This Recruitment Toolkit covers it all in some depth but in a practical manner.\u00a0 Read it through (as a board) and see what might work for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/good-practice-in-trustee-recruitment-toolkit.pdf\">The NCVO Recruitment Toolkit (.pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve got open vacancies on your board, why not let us know at the <strong>North East Lincolnshire Volunteer Centre<\/strong>.\u00a0 Trustees are volunteers, so we advertise open Trustee or committee member positions regularly.\u00a0 Contact us at VANEL to speak about advertising your vacancy.<\/p>\n<p>Any vacancies we post are added to the national Do-It volunteering database, which in turn can be interrogated via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallcharities.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Charities Coalition\u2019<\/a>s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallcharities.org.uk\/trustee-finder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trustee Finder service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you do recruit new Trustees, we can also help with introductory training for them \u2013 read more about our <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/big-issues\/governance-trusteeship\/trustees-intro-training\/\">\u201cIntroduction to Trusteeship\u201d course here<\/a>.\u00a0 And if you want to explore this recruitment process in more depth, we also cover it in our <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/big-issues\/governance-trusteeship\/board-dev-training\/\">\u201cDeveloping your Board\u201d training course<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From recruiting Trustees we can move into retention of Trustees, getting the right skills mix for Trustees or getting the board diversity balance right.\u00a0 Watch out for future articles.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I hope the Recruitment Toolkit is of interest.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/big-issues\/governance-trusteeship\/governance-contacts\/\">Contact us<\/a> if you\u2019d like to discuss your governance support needs further.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3140\" data-postid=\"3140\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3140 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recruiting new Trustees to a charity board is an issue for charities across the UK.  We&#8217;ve got a useful Toolkit to share here along with some advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[143,142],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-OE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}