Grow Board Diversity | Action for Trustee Racial Diversity

Eastside People has partnered with ATRD, the charity set up specifically to increase racial diversity in charity boards, to accelerate the representation of people from Black and Asian communities.

Eastside People has partnered with Action for Trustee Racial Diversity (ATRD), the organisation founded specifically to increase racial diversity in charity boards, to tackle jointly the issues around the longstanding and seemingly intractable under-representation of people from Black and Asian communities on trustee Boards. With research showing that only 8% of trustees in UK charities are from Black and Asian backgrounds and under 3% are “women of colour” (fewer than 20,000 out of 700.000), the charity sector clearly has much to do.

As part of the partnership agreement, Eastside People will provide funding support to enable the development of targeted joint initiatives and promote every trustee and Chair vacancy on its books to ATRD Connects, ATRD’s peer support network for Black and Asian aspiring and current trustees and Black and Asian Future Chairs’ Academy (BAFCA) members.

As part of an Action not Words Programme, a team of volunteers from across Eastside People’s expert consultancy group are delivering 1:1 CV coaching, interview skills training and mentoring support to help candidates take on trustee roles and/or participate in the BAFCA programme.

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Read what some of our ATRD Action Not Words mentees have to say about our 1st programme at the half way point:

“I have gained a lot from this programme in terms of knowledge, new resources and new awareness around the value of previous experiences in a trusteeship context. I am very excited for continued actions we’ll take and conversations we’ll have in our remaining sessions.” Mentee.

“The mentoring relationship is going well and I am benefitting a lot from my mentor’s insight.” Mentee.

“My mentee is very involved and committed and I am really enjoying working with her. I think this is a great programme and I hope it works well for all involved as I would love to see it continue and grow!” Mentor.

Watch this space for information about the next set of mentoring opportunities as we move towards the end of the initial 6 month programme.

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Read what some of our ATRD Action Not Words mentees have to say about our 1st programme at the half way point:

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