Getting on Board
Board-level volunteering career specialists
Getting on Board is a charity that can help you, your employees and members of your professional networks become new leaders in your communities through board-level volunteering.
Board level volunteering has enormous benefits for individuals, their employers and for the boards of the charities, public bodies and schools that they join.
Trustees' week 2011
Getting on Board supported the Charity Commission's second Trustees' Week in October/November 2011, running seminars and events on board-level volunteering during the week including:
- a seminar for individuals interested in board-level volunteering
- a seminar/workshop for interested HR and CR professionals who would like to set up a board-level volunteering scheme in their company.
What's new
10 million interested in joining the board of a charity, but confusion remains about the role of a trustee
A study by Getting on Board suggests that British people remain unaware of the exact role of a trustee.
"These findings are really interesting, highlighting the level of interest in trusteeship, but also how poorly understood it is. There is clearly more work to do to explain to people how charities are governed and how they can contribute."
Rob Abercrombie, Director of Research and Consulting at new Philanthropy Capital
www.philanthropycapital.org
A businesslike approach to trusteeship
As Trustees' Week gets under way, Sarah Hodgkinson outlines the benefits that businesspeople can bring to trustee boards.
The case for young trustees
Look around the table at the board meetings of many charities, and one familiar element will stare back at you; experience. Experience often comes hand-in-hand with age, but not necessarily.
Giving Time for good causes
Although busy there are ways for PRs to get involved in more bone fide charity work and further their careers at the same time, explains Lansons' Beth Murray.
Getting professionals onto charity boards
Miles Templeman, Director General of the Institute of Directors, talks about how business people can use their skills as charity trustees.
Getting on Board supports Government push
for more women on boards
The Prime Minister has welcomed progress for women on boards but says that that more needs to be done.
"Getting on Board is an excellent initiative, and the Institute of Directors fully supports its objectives. Board-level volunteering is a cost-effective way of developing leadership skills, especially of middle and senior managers, the directors of the future. Increasingly prospective employees want to work for employers that put something back into their communities, and companies that encourage board level volunteering are more likely to become 'employers of choice'. It is also a simple way for companies to meet their corporate responsibility goals."
Miles Templeman
Director-General
Institute of Directors