Designed to improve the skills of trustees and management committee members enabling them to play a positive and effective role in the governance of their organisation and look at ways of improving their effectiveness in relationship to paid staff and strategic planning.

Courses can include some or all of the following:

• Key issues about being a trustee
• Legal responsibilities
• Effective governance
• The role of committee members in helping their organisation to think strategically, plan ahead and evaluate progress
• Making management committees work
• Recruiting Management committee members
• Key issues in employment and management of staff in voluntary organisations
• Effective practice – the procedures and policies organisations need to be legally compliant
• Managing the manager