Having a strong and effective board is extremely important to ensure that your organisation meets its legal obligations and charitable objectives. As these positions are voluntary and can involve a significant time commitment, it can sometimes be difficult to recruit trustees with the skills, knowledge and experiences that you are looking for. We’ve put together this toolkit designed to support you when developing your trustee recruitment process.

We’ve put together some top tips to support you to retain existing and new volunteers. Once you have recruited the right volunteers for your organisation it is essential to deploy effective volunteer retention strategies that will keep your volunteers coming back to fulfil new and exciting opportunities for your organisation. Remember, it is the people that make an organisation great – the happiness and wellbeing of your volunteers should be placed at the forefront of all your decision-making processes.

To attract and retain volunteers, it’s important to create a unique and purposeful experience to ensure volunteers remain committed to giving their time to your organisation. This document outlines a number of ways in which your organisation can recruit and retain volunteers to ensure the sustainability of services in the long term. It’s important to remember that the most essential resource of any organisation is its people.