What Is a Charity Trustee – And How Could It Support Your Career Development?
This is your opportunity to find out. It might even be the first step on your journey to becoming a Trustee. If you are at an earlier stage in your career, you may instead want to support a charity through volunteering, fundraising, or raising awareness of a cause close to your heart in an ambassadorial capacity.
Many charities are in need of people with expertise in professional services. In today’s challenging economic environment, there has never been a greater need for people with the energy, enthusiasm, and skills to make a meaningful contribution, whether through legal advice, accountancy expertise, marketing guidance, or leveraging networks to support fundraising.
A charity board typically meets four times a year, and a Trustee’s commitment is usually no more than six hours a month, but your impact can be immeasurable.
Want to find out more? Join us on 7th July to hear insights from people who lead and support charities across Greater Manchester and discover how you could make a difference.
A charity board typically meets four times a year, and a Trustee’s commitment is usually no more than six hours a month, but your impact can be immeasurable.
Want to find out more? Join us on 7th July to hear insights from people who lead and support charities across Greater Manchester and discover how you could make a difference.
Brought to you by the pro-manchester's Charity Committee.
About the Speakers:
Matt is a Headhunter with over 20 years recruitment experience across professional services. His work also focuses on evolving Charitable Boards across Greater Manchester working with charities such as Forever Manchester, Barnabus and Coffee4Craig.
Victoria Cronquist is the Head of Smart Works Greater Manchester, a charity dedicated to empowering unemployed women with confidence and skills to succeed on their employment journey, through delivering transformative interview coaching and high-quality clothing services to help unemployed women secure jobs. Victoria joined the charity in 2020, during the pandemic, and faced the challenge of adapting operations to continue supporting women remotely. Since then, she has overseen the charity’s growth, led the opening of a second centre in Manchester city, supporting over 1,000 women annually from across all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs.
With a professional background in the third sector and not-for-profit organisations, Victoria brings valuable experience and insight to her role leading a small yet passionate all-female team, and dedicated volunteer community of over 60 volunteers. Victoria’s work reflects her commitment to uplifting women and fostering financial independence, she is an advocate for the unemployed women the charity supports, ensuring their voices are heard and their needs are met. Working alongside other stakeholders within Greater Manchester, Victoria strives to create fair and equitable employment opportunities for all.
Shamaine is the Director of Programmes for National Social Mobility charity LTSB and has over 10 years experience working in the charity sector. After graduating with a PGCE in Lifelong Learning specialising in Dance, Shamaine worked for the National Citizen Service (NCS) and then joined LTSB in 2018 and following 2 promotions is now the Programmes Director. LTSB is a charity that prepares and supports bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into meaningful roles with major firms all across the UK. The programme personally and professionally develops young people through practical skills coaching, higher-level critical thinking sessions, the power of sport and how to utilise the transferable skills you learn from the field into the workplace, and insight events with leading companies, business professionals, and LTSB alumni.
I have always been passionate about working with young people and helping them reach their full potential. Sports has significantly shaped who I am today, and I believe the transferable skills gained through sports are crucial in early career development.
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