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 2012
The dates for the 2012 Trustees' Week have been announced and it will be held from Monday 5th November until Sunday 11th.
Getting on Board is proud to be a founder member of the Trustees' Week event which is organised by the Charities Commission.
Information on Trustees Week 2011 can be found at http://trusteesweek.blogspot.co.uk/
If you are interested in running a seminar or holding an event and would like a speaker from Getting on Board please contact us.What's new
Board level volunteering seminar
Getting on Board is running a seminar on board level volunteering on 14th June, kindly hosted by Institute of Directors in Pall Mall, London. For more information, please contact us at info@gettingonboard.org or ring 01449 744166
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation grant award
Getting on Board has been awarded a three year grant by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to develop our services further. As well as enlarging our team and starting our newsletter we shall be looking at other ways of promoting and developing board level volunteering. This may involve awarding corporate membership status to some of our most enthusiastic companies or developing new networking opportunities with other partners.
Please let us know if you have any ideas or initiatives that may be able to link in with this aspect of our work.
International Women's Day
Getting on Board was in demand on International Women's Day and we hope to work with more organisations next year at even more events. We ran seminars for professional women in London and spoke at BT's International Women's Day event "Time to be Bold" in Manchester. Slightly more than 50% of the candidates that use our signposting service are women. Many (as are many men) are keen to develop their board level skills outside of their workplace and see this as a fantastic way of putting back whilst pushing towards board room roles and promotions.
New Philanthropy Capital publishes new report on trusteeship
The report aims to contribute to the charity sector's efforts to promote trusteeship and provides a series of case studies that highlight the value of trusteeship from the perspective of individuals, charities, an employer and a professional association. It also offers some practical guidance on finding a suitable trustee role to help people who are coming to trusteeship for the first time, and mentions Getting on Board on p27 as an organisation that can support people to find a trustee position.
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
"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