Would you like to be a Trustee?

KCN, like all voluntary organisations, is governed by a Board of Trustees.  The Board meets for two hours about 9 times a year.  It receives reports from the Director and Treasurer and sometimes from other members of staff about the progress of the organisation:  what funding is needed or has been gained and how the different projects are developing.   With advice from the Director and, in consultation with carers, it makes decisions about how the organisation should grow, change and deal with different issues.

The Board needs all kinds of people on it in order to do its job well: people with financial and legal knowledge, people with experience of working in local government or the health services, people with experience of fund-raising or management, people who know the borough well and people who have had firsthand experience of caring and really understand the problems carers face.

Trustees are not paid although any expenses are reimbursed.  Most people become trustees because they want to use their knowledge or experience to help the community they live in or because they want to have an influence on how an organisation works and, in the case of KCN, how carers in this borough are helped.

At the moment, KCN has 7 trustees and it needs 3 or 4 more.  There is a selection process as we have to make sure that new trustees who are selected to the Board have the particular knowledge and skills it needs.  This would involve filling out a short application form and having an informal interview with the Chair of the Management Committee and the Director.  If you would like to apply to be a trustee, please call Kate Dudley on 020 3 031 2757.  It does not matter if you have not been a trustee before as, if you are selected, you will be given free training.