Voluntary Arts Network (VAN)

Following the hugely successful VAN trustees event, 'Inspired, Competent, Creative', held in Birmingham on 30 November 2007, we have launched a new message board area with resources and networking opportunities for voluntary arts trustees and committee members.

Next Meeting

Inspired, competent, creative
Peer-support event for committee members, board members, trustees and CEOs
This informal afternoon event specially created for committee members, board members, trustees and CEOs from the voluntary arts sector offers a unique opportunity for you to explore and solve your governance problems with others undertaking similar roles in the sector. Facilitated by Zöe Willems, it will be a gathering of people and ideas in a warm, friendly space, structured around themes and giving time and space to speak, explore and learn, and to offer feedback and ideas.

When and where?

23 September 2008 - 12.30pm to 5.00pm
The Training Room, Manor Gardens Centre, 6-9 Manor Gardens, London N7 6LA

How much?
Just £18 per session, including refreshments.

Or just £25 for two delegates (e.g. trustee/board/committee member and their CEO), including refreshments.

Topics
Content will be determined through conversations with trustees. This will give you a chance to have your own specific issue addressed as well as to present issues as they come to mind in the session. For example, issues might include:

• compliance with charity and company regulations;
• what it means to be a good trustee or an effective chair;
• co-opted, selected or elected - how dopeople become trustees?;
• attracting and keeping trustees;
• eliciting and using the skills, experience and personalities of current trustees;
• constitutions, strategic plans, good governance;
• the relationship between trustees and staff;
• running interesting and inspiring board meetings and writing useful reports.

All topics are subject to change.

Course leader
Zöe Willems
Zöe is a trustee of Charity Trustee Networks (ctn). She is a freelance charity consultant advising on governance issues, strategic planning, risk and project management. Her background includes nine years at the Charity Commission, advising charities of all sizes and shapes, and as senior policy advisor she helped to develop the fundraising provisions in the Charities Act. She is also a lay director of the Fundraising Standards Board.

Who can attend?
The event is aimed at the committee members, board members, trustees and CEOs of national voluntary arts umbrella bodies. If you are not one of these, but still feel that these topics are relevant to you and would like to attend, please contact us.

For more information and an on-line booking form please go to:
http://www.voluntaryarts.org/linkevents/pages/trusteespeersupport.html

To stay informed about this and future events please sign up to the weekly newsletter at www.voluntaryarts.org/news

Visit the VAN Trustees message board at www.voluntaryarts.org/trustees.

For further information please contact Daniel Carpenter, Information and Reasearch Officer
Tel: 02920 395 395
Email: daniel@voluntaryarts.org

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