Below: Guest Speaker Rosalind Oakley takes a poll of the audience at the Charity Governance Awards 2018 (left). The audience responds with a show of hands.
The Company has invested in and supported the Cause4 Trustee Leadership Programme (a fiveweek training course in London that ends in a trustee-matching event) and regional one-day seminars, the Reach Volunteering Trusteeworks recruitment service (which matched 564 trustees in 2018), and trustee training seminars from NPC, among others. In all that we do, The Company welcomes expressions of interest from members. The flourishing partnership with
Reach Volunteering provides Clothworkers with access to fascinating trustee roles, published directly to the Members’ Area and highlighted in the e-newsletter. The Trustee Leadership Programme, co-funded by Close Brothers Asset Management, is offered free of charge to members. For those already on trustee boards, a number of NPC’s seminars are offered at Clothworkers’ Hall. Finally, The Company also hosts an annual trusteeship dinner to allow members to get together to discuss
and debate relevant issues. The volunteer activities of individual Clothworkers are many and varied. Realistically, it is difficult to quantify existing commitments to trustee or volunteer roles, or the extent to which this might be expanding. However, trusteeship is increasingly part of the ethos of The Company’s membership, and 33% of Clothworkers reported that they were serving as a school governor, trustee or volunteer in 2018.
THE CLOTHWORKERS’ COMPANY ANNUAL REVIEW 2018
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