Ronny Sandhu, our current Student Trustee, has announced his intention to stand down. We are therefore seeking nominations for a Student Trustee to join the Board. Nominations must be received by noon on Tuesday 7th May 2024 and an election for a Student Trustee for The Minster Centre will subsequently take place between 8th and 15th May 2024.
Students who are currently studying on a Minster Centre course that lasts more than one year are entitled to nominate a fellow student or stand for election as a student trustee.
About the Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees has responsibility for making sure the Minster Centre delivers its charitable objectives and deciding overall how the charity is run. They take an overview of our strategic direction, finances and operations. The Board meets at least 5 times a year, primarily online and currently on Friday early evenings (but dates can be adjusted to accommodate the composition of the Board). There is also at least one full day meeting usually on a Saturday in June.
Additional work on specialist working groups or committees may also be undertaken, depending on Trustees’ personal interests, experience, and availability. Trustees normally serve for a term of three years in the first instance but can stand for re-election up to a maximum of nine years.
Under the provisions of our governing document the Board can consist of a minimum of 7 trustees and a maximum of 14. The Board is made up of 11 independent Trustees (not staff or students) elected by Minster Centre Alumni, a staff Trustee (member of staff elected by the staff), and a student Trustee (a student who is on a course at The Minster Centre extending over more than one year, elected by students attending a course at The Minster Centre extending over more than one year) and the Director.
If you are interested in serving as a Student Trustee, you don’t need to have any particular previous experience, but you do need to be interested and committed to seeing The Minster Centre continue to thrive and develop. You can contribute by offering your perspective as a current student at the Centre and by drawing on your skills and experience from other fields. The Board has also identified that Trustees who can bring skills and experience in the following areas would be particularly helpful:
- + Equality and diversity
- + Fundraising
- + Commercial property (leases and acquisition)
- + Accountancy
- + Legal knowledge, particularly relating to property, commercial and employment
- + Business development
- + Education technology
- + HR
This does not rule out nominations from people with other skills to offer.
The Centre has a strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and would like this to be more fully represented in the composition of its Board of Trustees. We would particularly welcome nominations of people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, the LGBTQ+ community, care leavers, people with disabilities and people from other minority and underrepresented groups.
For further information about the role of a trustee, and how to make a nomination, please see the downloadable information below.
Nominations must be received by noon on Tuesday 7th May 2024.
Any student on a course that is longer than one year can nominate another student on a course that is longer than one yea. This means students at any point on the Diploma in Counseling, MA/Advanced Diploma, MA/PG Dip Advanced Clinical Practice or Supervision. (but not Foundation, Fast Track Foundation, Supervision Diploma or any other short course.
Nominees will need to send a brief CV and a statement of why they wish to be elected as a Trustee (maximum two sides of A4). Please submit your documents in Microsoft Word. These documents will be available on our website as part of the voting process until the election closes. Voting will start on Wednesday 8th May and close on Wednesday 15th May 2024.
For further information, please contact Afua Pierre by email: [email protected] or call 020 7644 6255.
