Next meeting: 24th May 2010
The next meeting of the Thrive Trustee Network will be on Monday 24th May 2010.
It will be at the Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre.
arrival from 5.15pm (light refreshments available), start at 5.30pm, finish by 6.30pm.
Free for existing members of the Thrive Trustee Network.
If you are a charity trustee or member of a governing committee and your third sector organisation is based in, or operates in North East Lincolnshire, then please come along and find out more about the network. Meetings are free to members, normally £10 for everyone else, but one session free if you want to find out more.
Please let us know you are coming. Either let Karl or Vicky at VANEL know if you are able to come. (contact details here) – 01472 231123.
Topic for the evening
This months meeting is a Trustee meeting (alternates with governance meetings every other month), and our topic will be to look at Board Effectiveness.
The Charity Commission hallmark requires that:
‘The charity has a trustee body that take responsibility for evaluating its own performance’
The Good Governance code for the Voluntary Sector says:
‘The board should periodically review its own and the organisation’s effectiveness and take any necessary steps to ensure that both continue to work well.’
So how well is your board doing? Do you evaluate yourselves? How should you do this?
We’ll be tackling the issue of board effectiveness on 24th May, looking at tools and techniques and working out practical steps we can take as trustees or boards to help improve our effectiveness, keep us fit for the future and help strengthen the longer term sustainability of our organisations.
Contact us to confirm if you can make the meeting.
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Board Effectiveness
How do you know if your board is doing what it should do? Is it doing it effectively?
We’ll be discussing the topic of board effectiveness at our next meeting on 24th May 2010 and this article will be filled with useful information following that!
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Welcome
Welcome to the new website for the Thrive Trustee & Governance network.
Bear with us whilst we develop the site, but articles will be coming soon to help individual Trustees, boards of Trustees and governing committees to function better.
Whilst we’re ‘under development’, please feel free to contact me (Karl Elliott) at VANEL to discuss anything at all about the network or the support we offer to Trustees.
karl@vanel.org.uk / 01472 231123
Resources
There are a huge number of resources available to help Trustees, governing committee members, and boards themselves. We’ll review individual resources one by one, but here are links to a number of external sites and directories you should start with:
The Charity Commission website – large number of documents you need to read
TrusteeNet website resources section – links to the most common and useful documents
[last updated 18th May 2010]