If young people don't know what trustees are, how can they apply for the role? Mita chatted to Angus Roy, Charity Director at Ecclesiastical, to find out his thoughts on this and his ideas for solving this problem!
Ecclesiastical are a specialist insurance and financial services company with over 130 years of experience offering honest advice, deep expertise and caring protection. They are charitably owned. They exist to contribute to the greater good of society and we do this by managing a successful, ethically-run portfolio of businesses.
Ecclesiastical found that charities they worked with were struggling to find trustees and that diversity on trustee boards was an issue. Working with Getting on Board, they conducted a survey with over 500 young people and found that 48% want to make a difference, but the vast majority don't know what trustees were.
Ecclesiastical have provided resources on trusteeship which you can read here.