Purpose of Trustee Boards
Trustee Boards, and their sub-teams, need to focus only on good charity governance. This means responsibility for support and operational tasks needs to sit with other teams, like the Group Leadership Team or District / County Support Team.
A clear separation of governance and operational tasks might be different to what volunteers who were part of Executive Committees are used to. But it’s important as it means Trustees can focus on governance and do it well. It’ll also be easier to retain volunteers and recruit new ones to Trustee Boards as what’s expected of our Trustees will be clearer.
It also means that volunteers who want to focus on operational and support tasks do not need to be a Trustee to do so. For example, the person who’s great at managing the hall or running fundraising events can do so as part of the Leadership Team or Support Team. If they don’t have the interest, skill or time to be a Trustee – they don’t have to.