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Develop Leadership. Strengthen Skills. Create Impact.For Corporate Opportunity
Develop Leadership. Strengthen Skills. Create Impact.Your company invests in developing its people, but opportunities to grow more capacity and experience can sometimes be limited. Corporate volunteering offers some valuable insight, but now you and your employees may be ready for a more strategic, sustained way to cultivate skills while contributing to your community.
Consider charity trusteeship as a professional development opportunity.
Trustees are the volunteer leaders who guide every charity’s future. Trustees set the strategy, oversee performance, ensure each charity delivers positive outcomes for its beneficiaries.
You don’t need previous charity experience, just your existing skills, your curiosity, and your passion to help their cause. Every charity trustee starts out by learning in their voluntary role and grows through real-world leadership experience.
Benefits for employees & employers
Work with new people, new ideas
- •Collaborate with passionate people you might never meet in your day job.
Real‑world leadership development
- •Grow your understanding, decision-making, project management and strategic skills in a live environment: no simulation or classroom needed.
Cross-sector leadership experience
- •Work with people from diverse backgrounds, expanding your perspective and strengthening teamwork.
Low-cost, high-value
- •Charities provide induction, training and support at no cost to their trustees.
Low-cost, high-value
- •Charities provide induction, training and support at no cost to their trustees.
Use your skills for good
- •Operations, digital, communications, HR, finance, marketing, sales, facilities: charities need them all.
- •No senior job title or senior experience required.
- •Life experience, lived experience, community experience, family experience: it all equally counts.
What to expect as a Trustee
- Boards increasingly meet online or hybrid, usually quarterly; also with opportunities to meet face-to-face
- Trusteeship typically needs 5 to 10 hours per month, mostly flexibly at your convenience
- Expectation for your commitment is 3 to 4 years at a time
- Training is provided and your expenses are reimbursed; the role itself is voluntary
- Charities protect their trustees from personal liability and risk through their legal structure, and by making collective decisions
- Trusteeship offers practical leadership development while helping organisations that deliver vital community support
- Becoming a trustee is challenging, rewarding, and genuinely fun: it’s professional development with purpose, and real impact
- Boards increasingly meet online or hybrid, usually quarterly; also with opportunities to meet face-to-face
- Trusteeship typically needs 5 to 10 hours per month, mostly flexibly at your convenience
- Expectation for your commitment is 3 to 4 years at a time
- Training is provided and your expenses are reimbursed; the role itself is voluntary
- Charities protect their trustees from personal liability and risk through their legal structure, and by making collective decisions
- Trusteeship offers practical leadership development while helping organisations that deliver vital community support
- Becoming a trustee is challenging, rewarding, and genuinely fun: it’s professional development with purpose, and real impact
Read what others say about the impact of Trusteeship
Find out more & contact us
To find out more about trusteeship and charity governance, contact: intrusted@involve.community
All local inTRUSTed trustee opportunities are posted on our dedicated volunteer website: bracknellforestgetinvolved.org.uk
Or to find out more about corporate social responsibility and local volunteering, contact: volunteering@involve.community
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