Bad-faith actors are dragging certain charities through the courts in deliberate attempts to tarnish their reputations, and boards should have plans in place to deal with this, says Fiona McAuslan...

Top tips & insights from speakers at Eastside People’s Festival of Trusteeship 2025 on how to get the most from your board meetings.

Here are some areas that often prove problematic, alongside some suggested Festival of Trusteeship sessions that are packed with tips and insights to shape your board and influence trustee behaviour.

From decision making to dynamics. The traits & habits used by the best charity boards. By Eastside People Consultant Fiona McAuslan.

Up Close With: Fiona McAuslan Fiona McAuslan hails from Hackney, East London. By focusing on her point of view, she gets her point across via a left-handed approach to creative writing. Once …

The Smallwood Trust has increased its endowment drawdown while still maintaining financial prudence, and calls on other trusts and foundations to do the same, as Fiona McAuslan reports...

Identifying and changing board culture can feel like a nebulous task, but it can make or break a charity, says Fiona McAuslan...

The best books draw you into worlds you didn’t know existed and then change your own world view. Laura Fish’s evocative and immersive third novel does exactly this. After a sudden and shocking tragedy, Koliwe Dlamini takes a job as an aid worker in

Fiona McAuslan, Communications Director at Getting on Board, a trustee recruitment and diversity charity, says when care workers become trustees it’s a win-win for the sector and charities simultaneously.

By Fiona McAuslan, communications director at Getting on Board. When it comes to trustee recruitment, many board members will tell you that they don’t have a diversity and inclusion issue. Their problem is that they just can’t find new trustees for

Building resilience for challenging times

It's legal to wild camp in most parts of Oman. Fiona McAuslan set up camp in the mountains of Jebel Akhdar – and found some surprises along the way.

Trusteeship can help chemical engineers advance their careers and give to a cause they love, says Fiona McAuslan

Here's six easy but robust, inclusive and practical ways to set your new charity board trustees up for success.

Chinelo Nnadi is a trustee at Springfield Advice and Law Centre and is the Co-Chair of BMA Medical Students Committee Chinelo Nnadi is in her final year of medical school and found out about trusteeship by attending a Getting on Board’s Trustee Fair…

Through trusteeship I’ve also learned how to operate on a strategic board level

As a mental health advocate Suneet focuses on eradicating stigma and is an ambassador of video games mental health charity Safe In Our World. He is also a legal executive. My diagnosis of depression colours my approach to things Mental illness is…

Being a trustee involves different skills and challenges from regular volunteering. Here’s how to work out which would suit you best.

CEO Vikki Wilkinson details how step-by-step recruitment process diversified Bexley VSC boardMomentum for change‘It was the Black Lives Matter movement in June 2020 that brought the issue of diversity to the fore for us. I’d been CEO of Bexley Voluntary Service Council for five years. We’d always known that we needed to diversify. The BLM movement made conversations both easier and harder but it did mean that it had become a real live issue. There was momentum, so we took the decision not to po

Lee Reavey, Co-Founder and Trustee of the NCBRS Worldwide shares their journey to open recruitment“My boy was born in 2007 and diagnosed with Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome. He was the second person ever to be diagnosed and there was very little information available. I remember walking out of Great Ormond Street Hospital, feeling all alone. In 2010 I set up a Facebook group. I was motivated not to let other families go through that and be as isolated. In 2020 our small group officially became a