Trustee/Management Committee Member
Greenwich Inclusion Project (GrIP)
To govern i.e. directing and controlling the organisation through collective decision making. This is a mandatory requirement of everyone on the committee.
Together the Management Committee Members must fulfil the 5 Core Governance Functions: • Determine Mission and Strategy – setting the organisation’s direction and determining how it will get there. • Accountability – being held to account for the actions of the organisation and holding those who carry out the work (staff and/or volunteers) to account. • Look after the committee – ensuring committee renewal (recruitment, induction and retirement), effective decision making and information sharing processes, positive group dynamics, and reflection, learning and development for the committee as necessary. • Safeguard assets – acting as custodian of the assets, tangible (money, property etc) and intangible (organisation’s reputation and name), ensuring that assets are used appropriately and constitutionally. Ensuring that there are sufficient assets for the organisations survival. • Act as ‘boundary-spanner’ – linking the organisation to its stakeholders, such as members, the community, funders etc. • Recruit staff, support, monitor and undertake disciplinary action as appropriate.
Trusteeships & Committees
Bookkeeping & Finance, Managing People, Negotiating, Organising & Planning, Research
To be a pool of expertise and advice i.e. making advice and expertise available to the committee, staff and volunteers. To manage activities and functions as agreed by all Trustees, (for instance managing an event, function or the production of a publication or the newsletter). To undertake work (staffing a helpline, answering correspondence, filling out grant applications, changing hearing aid batteries, sitting as a representative on outside bodies etc).
Reimbursement of out of pocket expenses
Minimum one 2 hour meeting every two months
SE18 6FH
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Opposite Woolwich Arsenal Train Station
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