Your Voice

ctn is seeking to speak up on your behalf. With a plethora of national policies and developments underway at any one time, we aim to identify the important issues that will affect you in your role as a trustee, to gather your perspectives and to represent those to the decision-makers.

What we hear from you is that you are busy people. After all, “if you want something doing, ask a busy person”. That is certainly true of so many trustees who volunteer in that role on top of many other commitments – both personal and professional. And we understand the challenge of trying to keep on top of national policies and initiatives that are relevant to you.

Our aim is to do this for you, making sure that the perspective of trustees is considered when policies, laws and regulations are being made. To do this we need to know what you think about particular subjects and what issues are causing you difficulties.

There are a number of ways that we seek to find out what you’re thinking. Click on the links above or below to make your voice heard.

• Consultations

• Polls

• Surveys

• Cut The Red Tape Submit your ideas for cutting red tape, unnecessary regulation and difficult to understand guidance

• Networks If, through your trustee network, it becomes clear that there is an issue that is causing you difficulty, either let us know yourself or encourage your network organiser to let us know.

• Website forums We initiate online discussions on consultations and we look at postings to identify those issues that are affecting trustees.

• Feedback Please do tell us if there is something that is causing you difficulties or stress as a trustee. We will seek to help where we can, but if a number of trustees are having the same problem we will look into what resources we can find or develop to address those needs.

• Blogs Don't forget you can use your own personal blog by clicking on your user name when you are logged into the site. Record your personal thoughts or commentary which you think might amuse, inpire, anger or inform other trustees. And read other blog entries by checking out the blogs page or set up a RSS feed so you can see immediately who has blogged.