Trustees
Charities and community organisations in the Gosport area are in need of trustees like you!
Many local Voluntary Organisations are in need of volunteers with professional expertise, management and other life skills.
You could use your life skills to help run a local Voluntary Organisation.
What is a Trustee?
A Trustee is someone who has ultimate responsibility in a charitable voluntary organisation. A Trustee should act in the best interest for the organisation and they are also responsible that an organisation has a clear strategy set out and that they remain true to its original vision and that it complies with all the necessary rules and legal obligations.
Charity and community organisation trustees help to ensure that organisation run professionally and proficiently. They may be known as trustees, directors, board members, governors or committee members.
Trustees have a number of formal roles and responsibilities which include appointing key people and keeping a check on the organisation’s finances and activities.
Why Should I become a Trustee?
Here are just some of the benefits of becoming a Trustee for an organisation:
- Sharing your skills and expertise
- Helping to make a difference in the community
- Develop your personal interests
- Improve your self confidence
- Gain useful and valuable experience
- To learn new skills
- Access training and qualifications
- Enhance your CV
- To get additional work experience
- To make friends and enjoy yourself
Becoming a trustee is just another way of volunteering and giving you time to the community. Trusteeship is a great way to make a significant difference to a charity or cause you care about.
Charity and community organisation boards need people with a wide range of expertise and backgrounds. If you have personal experience of the issues a charity tackles or are part of the community it works in, have professional, management or other life skills and experience, then you have a unique combination of expertise and perspectives to offer.
As a respected and responsible role, it is also a brilliant route to developing new skills, gaining more experience and getting involved with new networks.
It is a great way of using your skills and expertise that you have developed through a lifetime’s experience to benefit your community.
So What's Next?
Usually a time commitment of 2 or 3 hours a month will be sufficient to become a trustee, although there might be occasions when slightly more may be required.