How to recruit trustees for your charity

This full-colour guide takes you through the practical steps of a successful trustee recruitment campaign. From assessing skills gaps in a trustee board, to effective advertisement, to developing meaningful inductions for a new trustee, this guide demystifies the process and promotes the practice of open recruitment for charity boards.

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The age of the average trustee is nearly 60, they are most likely to be male and white and the majority recruited by word-of-mouth and through limited networks. It is not surprising then that more charities than not say their trustees are unrepresentative and ill-equipped to meet their needs. We have to recruit trustees differently and there is no better place to start than here.

This full-colour guide takes you through all of the practical steps of a successful trustee recruitment campaign. From assessing skills gaps in an organisation's trustee board, to effective advertisement, to developing meaningful inductions for a new trustee, this guide seeks to demystify process and promote the practice of open recruitment for charity boards.