Our constitution

What are the responsibilities of Trustees?

Individual responsibilities are to:

• Attend trustee board meetings regularly
• Understand and be fully committed to the aims and principles of the organisation
• Challenge all incidents that contravene the organisation's equal opportunities policy
• Take a share of the board's work by offering to work on a sub-committee of the board
• Support all decisions once they have been agreed by the board
• Respect the confidentiality of board matters and discussions

The joint responsibilities with all the other trustees are to:

• Accept legal responsibility for the workers of the organisation
• Act as employers for the workers of the organisation; Decide overall policy for the organisation's work within the guidelines laid down by the members
• Be satisfied that within the constraints of resources, the organisation is meeting its aims
• Take a long term view of how the work of the organisation should develop
• Try to ensure that funding for the organisation continues
• Ensure that all trustee responsibilities delegated to paid staff and individual members of the organisation are carried out.