Festival of Trusteeship

Eastside People became the new home for the Festival of Trusteeship in 2025 and the revived event formed a central part Trustees’ Week which ran from 3rd to 7th November 2025.

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 delivered 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 were free.  

Watch the 2025 Festival of  Trusteeship recordings

Festival recordings have been provided to every ticket holder and will be available for non-attendees on our website sometime in 2026. If  you missed the Festival and are keen to find out what happened, you can buy a pack containing recordings of every session held across the week for just £30 here.

Keep me updated for 2026

The dates for the 2026 Festival of Trusteeship haven’t yet been announced so if you’re interested in being kept up-to-date on teh latest news you can sign up here:

2025 event partners and sponsors

We are incredibly grateful to our partners and sponsors who helped make the 2025 Festival possible. Our headline sponsor was The Institute of Leadership and Stone King who sponsored the governance strand.

Thank you to our other partners including Fair Collective (inclusion fund for people who couldn’t otherwise volunteer to take part as a Festival of Trusteeship panellist), ACEVO, Association of Chairs, Board Racial Diversity UK, Centre for Charity Effectiveness (at Bayes Business School), Ecclesiastical Insurance, the WI Learning Hub and the Young Trustees Movement.

If you have any questions about the Festival of Trusteeship, please email us at: [email protected].

Acknowledgements

Proud to be part of #TrusteesWeek 2025.

More resources for trustees

Visit our Trustee Hub which is full of resources for charity and not-for-profit trustees.