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Trustees and volunteers
You should analyse and include the skills needs of your trustees and volunteers in your training plan.
Our Board of Management undertake an annual skills audit, which identifies their gaps in knowledge, and we use the first part of board meetings to cover a topic, plus our annual board residential (weekend away) to cover a few topics in more depth. Our Board have committed to the YMCA national guidance in undertaking a minimum of 12 hours training per annum.
Neil Sherringham
Director of Human Resources, Kingston and Wimbledon YMCA
There are various resources which you can use to do this.
Trustees
The Governance Hub (now Governance and Leadership at NCVO) developed a toolkit for trustees and management committee members, based on national occupational standards. This contains exercises to support learning and development. Copies of the toolkit are available to download or purchase from the NCVO website.
Volunteers
The Institute for Volunteering Research has published an Assessing Voluntary Experience toolkit (pdf, 1.83MB) to help volunteers reflect on their volunteering experience and their learning needs.
Our National Occupational Standards for Managers of Volunteers contains relevant information, in particular the unit about Supporting the development of volunteers’ knowledge, skills and competence.