Getting on Board, which promotes diversity on charity boards, has announced its programme of online discussion events to take place during Trustees Week (November 7-11).

Its ‘festival of trusteeship’ series of events is focused on trustee recruitment, governance, leadership and supporting aspiring trustees and includes an online discussion with Charity Commission chair Orlando Fraser on the ‘future of trusteeship’ on November 7.

A free session, called Turing Passion into Purpose, also takes place the same day on supporting aspiring trustees to learn more about a board level charity role.

On November 8 Getting on Board is staging an event on how to diversify charity boards, as well as a session on class barriers to being a trustee.

Later in the week, on November 11, the charity is running an event looking at lessons learnt from charities that focus on diversifying their boards.

Last week a report by Manchester based charity Reclaim warned that action is needed by charities to tackle a lack of working-class charity leaders. It urged charities to collect data on class diversity as a “first step in organisations understanding the scale of the problem”.

Also last week it emerged that the Charity Commission has admitted that charity boards are blighted by a lack of diversity and “do not reflect the make-up of the communities they serve”.

The admission was made in a response by the regulator to concerns from the charity Money4You around a lack of action to add diversity data to the charities’ register.

Other Getting on Board online sessions during the Trustees Week will look at issues including whether trustees should be paid and the mistakes trustees can make.

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