Does your charity want to strengthen and diversify your trustee board?
Volunteer Centre Tower Hamlets (VCTH) is delivering the Minoritised Ethnic Trustees (METs) programme. We are recruiting Tower Hamlets residents from global majority communities, training them in the basics of charity governance, and empowering them to become great potential trustees. We then introduce these volunteers to local registered charities like yours, aiming to create matches that will have lasting impact at governance level.
METs will help your charity strengthen and diversify your trustee board by:
- adding new skills, perspectives and experiences, leading to better, more inclusive decision-making
- increasing involvement from Tower Hamlets residents, giving local communities greater voice in your work, and increasing legitimacy
- taking action on structural racism and addressing under-representation by increasing involvement of global majority residents at governance level.
METs is completely FREE. To be eligible your organisation must:
- Be registered with the Charity Commission. Charities of all sizes can join
- Be committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, with a genuine intention to fully involve trustees from minoritised ethnic communities
- Have at least one general trustee vacancy and be able to appoint any new trustee(s) between December 2024 and January 2025
- Expect to be financially solvent for the next 12 months
- Identify two senior people to represent your organisation and participate in the programme between now and January 2025. Your representatives will be asked to provide information about your charity, attend an online evening matching event on 19 November 2024, then lead on trustee selection. Your representatives should be either; two trustees or the senior staff member and one trustee (ideally the Chair or a trustee responsible for Board recruitment).
Sound good? Volunteer Centre Tower Hamlets would love to hear from you. We have space for up to 12 organisations to participate in Round 2 of the programme between September 2024 and January 2025. If you are interested, but not quite ready, there will be further rounds in 2025.
To request a METs organisation registration form, or with any queries, please email Cath Bavage at [email protected].