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Eastside People is the new home for the Festival of Trusteeship and the revived event will form a central part of this year’s Trustees’ Week (from 3rd to 7th November 2025).
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Trusteeship Transformed: Bold ideas from the front line
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Summary
Sector changemakers pitch their ideas to reimagine boards. Expect provocation, inspiration and a few surprises!Detailed description
Back by popular demand!
Join our outspoken speakers to listen to their ideas of what they would revolutionise, rebuild or destroy about trusteeship.
What do you think?
Will you (kindly) zap their radical ideas with the red button or celebrate their ingenuity with the golden buzzer?
At the last Festival of Trusteeship, sector mavericks, visionaries and provocateurs proposed letting babies run boards, being less exclusive about who we recruit as trustees and doing away with treasurers. What will this year bring?
This session will interest anyone with a curiosity about how boards might be radically reimagined. Come ready to be challenged, inspired - or outraged.
About Eastside People
The Festival of Trusteeship is a week-long online series of events, full of exciting options for anyone who wants to become a trustee, for committed trustees who want to keep learning and developing, and for charity leaders who want to understand best practice in trustee recruitment and inclusive governance.
The festival will deliver a mix of informative and practical webinars and workshops, and lively panel discussions relating to good charity board governance with a focus on diversity and inclusion. All sessions for aspiring trustees are free.
We’re delighted to announce that the Institute of Leadership is sponsoring this year’s event. A professional membership body representing a global community of managers, leaders, and organisations continued learning is a key part of how they shape the future of leadership. We’re also very grateful to Ecclesiastical Insurance, the sponsors of the planned 2024 event. Additionally, we’re also extremely pleased to have the support of Stone King, a purpose-led law firm.
We are incredibly grateful to our headline sponsor Institute of Leadership, for all their support. Similarly, we’re delighted to have the support of Stone King who are sponsoring one of our themed strands and our partners Ecclesiastical, Centre for Charity Effectiveness (at Bayes Business School), Board Racial Diversity UK, ACEVO, Association of Chairs, The Young Trustees Movement, the WI Learning Hub and Fair Collective.