{"id":4237,"date":"2015-01-23T13:51:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T13:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2015-01-27T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T11:09:37","slug":"the-roles-and-responsibilites-of-trustees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2015\/01\/the-roles-and-responsibilites-of-trustees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roles and Responsibilites of Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday 30th<\/sup> January 2015, we\u2019re again running our \u201cRoles and Responsibilities of Trustees\u201d training session.<\/strong> Over the course of two hours we\u2019ll help you to understand the role of a trustee or committee member a bit better, so you know what you should and shouldn\u2019t do, how you need to behave and what you need to do to be effective.<\/p>\n

This short, introductory course is a great start for anyone joining a board for the first time (or needing a refresher). If you\u2019ve been in the role for a while, then hopefully you already know what you\u2019re supposed to be doing!<\/p>\n

More practical details about the course are below, or contact Karl Elliott at VANEL if you\u2019d like to discuss your governance\/trustee training needs more specifically. We can also run this course exclusively for the committee members of your charity\/group\/organisation through arrangement at a time\/venue more convenient for yourselves \u2013 just contact us to discuss.<\/p>\n

Booking is essential for the session on 30th<\/sup> January<\/strong>, so please reserve your place.<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t make the sessions, then here\u2019s a quick run-down of some resources that you should take a look at if you are a new Trustee or Committee Member. With a bit of luck your organisation should have introduced you to most of these during the induction process, but you may have missed some. We\u2019ll cover these resources in the training session to.<\/p>\n

About Trusteeship<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget:<\/em>
\nIf you are on the board of a registered charity then you are likely to be a Trustee, and the Charity Commission covers what you do.
\nIf your organisation is also a limited company then you could be a Company Director as well, and will be addressed by Companies House and company law.
\nIf your organisation is constituted but not necessarily a charity, then you are a Committee Member but not necessarily a Trustee, and your constitution or governing documents will be an important place to start reading.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an overview of the legal duties of a Trustee on the KnowHowNonProfit website: http:\/\/knowhownonprofit.org\/leadership\/governance\/board-responsibilities\/legal-duties-of-trustees<\/a><\/p>\n

The Charity Commission website is here https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/running-charity\/trustee-role-board<\/a>\u00a0 with information about the Trustee role and managing the board. Their overview here https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/charity-trustee-whats-involved<\/a>\u00a0 is a good place to start.<\/p>\n

Every Trustee should start by making themselves aware of the \u201cEssential Trustee\u201d.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-essential-trustee-what-you-need-to-know-cc3<\/a><\/p>\n

As part of a board or committee, you should be seriously looking at how your entire board works \u2013 it\u2019s governance approach \u2013 and what your part is in this process. One good tool for this is the voluntary Code of Good Governance:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.governancecode.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This sets out principles etc that you and the committee\/board should be following. You can use the code in many ways (we cover this during our training), but in my opinion every Trustee should be knowledgeable about the code.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s obviously a lot more detail in being a competent, safe and effective Trustee, but at the very least you should be familiar with all those resources above.<\/p>\n

Course Practicalities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our training session is on Friday 30th<\/sup> January 2015<\/strong>, from 10am-12noon and will be held at West Marsh Community Centre, Grimsby.<\/p>\n

Please book your place via Karl Elliott, karl@vanel.org.uk<\/a>, or through Peter Hewson via 01472 231123.<\/p>\n

The cost of this session is currently being kept very low \u2013 \u00a35 per person for Member or Friend organisations or \u00a310 for individuals from other organisations.<\/p>\n

NB: The last notification for this course had the venue as West Marsh Community Centre. This has now been changed to the Willows instead. Sorry for any inconvenience.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s in the course?<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the two hour training course we will help Trustees learn:
\nwhat they must do
\nwhat they should do
\nwhat they could do
\nhow to behave
\nhow to be useful to the organisation
\nhow to learn and develop themselves and gain from trusteeship
\nhow to get support
\nhow to work as an individual trustee but also as part of the team
\nand more\u2026<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll take a look at:
\nTrusteeship \u2013 an opportunity and a responsibility
\nThe legal trustee
\nThe principled trustee
\nThe purposeful trustee
\nThe well behaved trustee
\nThe skilled trustee
\nThe effective trustee
\nThe supported trustee<\/p>\n

Any further questions, please contact Karl as above.<\/p>\n\n

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Our “Roles and Responsibilities of Trustees” training course is on 30th January. Here’s some more information about the course, but also about the topic generally for anyone is unable to attend.<\/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":[5,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-16l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237"}],"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=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}