Trustee Induction 14 Jan & 28 Jan

Please note you must attend BOTH sessions 14 January & 28 January, 4pm - 6pm on both days

Trainers: Working with AIM, we are delighted to welcome Hilary Barnard and Ruth Lesirge, the authors of AIM’s “Successful Governance for Museums” and acknowledged experts in charity governance.

What will be covered?

Two linked sessions introducing the role and responsibilities of being a trustee. These engaging sessions will encourage discussion between participants.

You will get to discuss the nitty gritty of Trustee duties but will also think about tools for you and your fellow trustees to use in improving the governance of your museum.

The sessions are also an invaluable opportunity to network with other trustees, exchange ideas and be refreshed in your thinking about trusteeship.

A good induction will enable new trustees (first year or so) to become active and contribute more quickly and to greater effect to your museum. It is also a requirement of the Museum Accreditation scheme.

We will ask you to think about a few things specific to your museum both in advance of the first session, and in between sessions one and two.

Learning objectives

• Understand more about the role and responsibilities of being a museum trustee, and how it applies in your museum.
• Discover some techniques to offer as ideas to your fellow Trustees as ways to improve the working of the group.
• Understand how to separate your roles if you are both a Trustee, and an operational volunteer at your museum.

Who should attend?

Ideal for new or fairly new trustees – a maximum of two from any one museum.

We appreciate museums are all run differently, and Hilary and Ruth will be keen to support your specific way of working and will not assume your have paid staff, or not. All shapes and sizes of museum are welcome!

Session preparation

In case anyone is not already aware of this very useful source of Trustee support – the AIM website include the following:

https://aim-museums.co.uk/for-aim-members/for-trustees/

Please note: We require you to complete the full booking form in order to confirm your eligibility for the session. The main booking form questions will appear after you have been through the 'check out' process. If you do not complete this form we will be in contact and reserve the right to cancel your ticket if we do not receive a response.

MDSE is funded by Arts Council England (ACE) to support museums in the South East of England within ACE’s Accreditation scheme. The South East is defined as the local authority areas of:

• Bedfordshire (Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Borough)
• Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor & Maidenhead and Wokingham)
• Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock
• Hertfordshire
• Kent and Medway
• Norfolk
• Oxfordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• East Sussex and Brighton & Hove
• West Sussex

We prioritise places on our training programmes for museums which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation. ACE publishes the official lists of Accredited and Working Towards Accreditation museums on its website. Where possible we will make places available for museums which do not meet these criteria but the number of places will vary depending on the event format.

For full details of our programmes conditions, see our Terms and Conditions on our website

By booking a place on to a Museum Development South East training event, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

• That you are from a South East museum which is in Arts Council England’s Museum Accreditation Scheme. Where this is not applicable you acknowledge that MDSE will facilitate your attendance if availability permits and that you or your organisation will pay any fees which may apply.
• It is a condition of receiving this ACE funded training that the online evaluation sent to the email address provided at the point of booking is completed by the specified deadline. This deadline is in the email notification unless a paper evaluation is specifically requested and submitted on the day of the training session.
• By booking a place you agree that you will make every endeavour to attend the event and you will give us at least 24 hours’ notice if you need to cancel your booking. If you repeatedly cancel your booking without sufficient notice you agree that we may exercise our right to remove you from future event bookings.

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