Trustee/Board Recruitment

Having taken care to manage our expectations, Eastside People then over delivered by helping us to appoint a very high quality candidate on a tight timeline and at a competitive cost. Highly recommended.

I very much valued the support we had from Eastside People when recruiting new trustees. They quickly understood our brief, were very supportive of the process and supplied us with an excellent field of candidates. I would highly recommend them to others in our sector.

The service was excellent. Whilst it proved difficult, initially to attract a shortlist of candidates, Bernice was always candid about the challenges but also optimistic about the final outcome. Through her persistence we not only made an appointment to the Chair role but also were able to appoint an additional trustee from the shortlisted applicants. I would highly recommend Bernice and Eastside People to other charities.

We had a really positive experience using Eastside People to recruit Trustees, we were supported throughout the process and got some fantastic candidates.

Marlijn helped us find our dream candidate, due to her dogged determination, fierce passion for the sector, and commitment to inclusive recruitment. She guided us through the process and took her time to understand our organisation and needs thoroughly, and kept us informed throughout the process.

Very approachable and took time to listen to our needs at the start of the process. Kept in contact with us throughout the recruitment and offered good and professional advice and service - thank you.

Excellent. Eastside People now understands our business and needs and has found really good and appropriate candidates. Lucinda is a good listener and I really felt we were working off the same page. I have mentioned the success we have had with EP to other charities who can see the value of the very active Board we have built with EPs assistance.I won’t hesitate to use again and to recommend to others. As we grow we will need more Trustees of the sort of quality EP seems to find.

I’d like to say how impressed we have been with Eastside People’s support through this process. You sourced great candidates and all three that the Senior Management Team met would have been able to do the job well; we were just spoilt for choice, which is a lovely place to be.

Eastside People were very professional throughout the process. They clearly understood our business needs. We were rewarded with a shortlist of excellent candidates and a successful recruitment campaign. The deadlines we set were quite tight, but were all met. I would definitely recommend using them for Trustee recruitment.

NOAH’s theory of change developed with Eastside People was instrumental within the development of our 5-year strategy. It has also been the cornerstone of our ongoing social impact analysis through which we hold ourselves accountable for making a genuine, quantifiable, and lasting difference.

We are excited that our partnership with Eastside People and the associated funding will help us to grow our membership and support them in a more focused way to achieve their aspirations of becoming charity trustees and chairs.

We are absolutely delighted with the help Eastside People have given us and with every one of the people Lucinda has enabled us to find.

We found Eastside People very helpful in the recruitment of our new CEO. Their advice was good, speed of turnaround was excellent with good support throughout the process. Very professional.

We were delighted with the service offered by Eastside People, and extremely impressed with the quality of applicants they managed to attract. We had a tough job to get the longlist down to a manageable number for the shortlist, but in the end we interviewed six candidates and all were excellent - we were only looking for four but ended up offering positions to five new Board members (and the sixth interviewee was also more than appointable). Overall we are very pleased with the support and service offered by Eastside People - thank you all!

Bernice and her team were very professional and found us the best Chair for our Board. It was a very smooth process and we enjoyed the journey that both of our organisations went on together. Bernice introduced a new way to promote the role, redact the job spec and do blind shortlisting which was all very welcome. Our Chair has now been endorsed and we are really looking forward working with them.

I wanted to drop you a message to say thank you for reaching out on LinkedIn for the HFEH Mind trustee role and for your guidance through the process. I was offered the role yesterday, which is great news! Thanks.

We worked with Lucinda at Eastside People during 2022 and several months on, we remain absolutely delighted with the help she has given us at Abbeyfield Southern Oaks and with every one of the people she enabled us to find. With her help we been able to move from a Board of totally committed but ultimately amateur Trustees to a much more professional Board with the right mix of skills to match our business as a Charity. I have no doubt that this is a contact we shall want to keep ‘warm’ and it is one that my colleagues and I have already mentioned to others as well as one that can help an organisation to transform itself.

We had been searching unsuccessfully for 2 years for a treasurer to join our Board. When we turned to Eastside People for help they understood our needs and quickly came to understand our organisation. They were outstandingly informative and pleasant to deal with. They found us a perfect treasurer. I would certainly recommend them.

I was very impressed with the professionalism, responsiveness and focus of Eastside People generally and specifically the consultant leading the search. They had a very deep understanding view of the brief, were very responsive in dealing with questions about the process and the informal and formal interviews were friendly while being searching and thorough.

Working with Eastside People was a pleasure. Bernice looked after us throughout the process, providing great advice and support and went out of her way to ensure that the candidates were well looked after. The whole recruitment process was well run, delivered on time and ended in the recruitment of two top quality candidates.

Our new chair of the finance committee is proving a great find and I would like to thank Marlijn Wijkhuizen and the team at Eastside People for finding the candidates and guiding us through the process. It is unlikely that we would have found such highly qualified and committed individual who is passionate about what we do - it was definitely worth every penny and has given me a very different perspective on recruiting trustees.

Working with Eastside People was very productive for us. They were professional, efficient and the process has resulted in four new board members and a plan to transform our governance, bringing extra capacity to develop the organisation and sustain benefit for our beneficiaries into the future.

After Bowel Cancer & Research and the Bowel Disease Research Foundation merged, we were looking for a new CEO with empathy for both organisations, but also the drive to make the merger successful. The insights we received from Eastside People consultant Julia Perry about our candidates were very useful. We thank her for going above and beyond, particularly taking the time to talk through the candidate profiles with our various stakeholders Following the merger of Bowel & Cancer Research and the Bowel Disease Research Foundation we needed to appoint a Chief Executive to the new organisation. There was a great deal of complexity within our organisations with which Eastside People were always helpful and patient. They came up with an excellent list of potential candidates from which we eventually appointed one. We are tremendously grateful to them.

Eastside People's help in recruiting new trustees for The River and Rowing Museum was invaluable; testing (and improving) the trustee specification, identifying strong candidates and managing the process efficiently.  I recommend them!

Eastside People recruitment consultant Marlijn Wijkhuizen was critical to helping us finding two new fundraising and HR trustees for our board, with a real dedication to work we do combatting poverty and homelessness, and did so at a time of growth and change for our organisation. I would thoroughly recommend this service. Eastside People and their consultant Paul Venning helped us to appoint two staff to our senior management team. Paul took the time to thoroughly understand our organisation, and also got to know each candidate well. EP's consultant Julia Perry then carried out psychometric testing for shortlisted candidates for two senior roles. Having these detailed reports challenged the panel?s gut instincts about candidates, which made the process more inclusive, and gave us a deep understanding of each person. I would thoroughly recommend this service to any organisation wishing to gain deeper insight into individuals or groups of people.

Excellent service, very much tailored to our needs and not the usual one-size-fits-all approach. I would highly recommend Eastside People's recruitment service to others and in fact have already done so.

Bernice and Paul quickly showed a real understanding of the environment and candidate we were looking for when recruiting for an Independent Chair of a new Governance committee. Their engagement with stakeholders was exceptional and ensured that the candidates they presented were of the highest calibre. Eastside People took what we thought was going to be a challenging role to recruit and made it successful.

We approached Eastside People and I was impressed with the way they executed their plans and within the agreed budget to deliver excellent candidates from which we were able to appoint a high calibre individual.

I cannot speak highly enough of the work Bernice and Paul have undertaken for Teamwork. They have fantastic complementary skills sets. Their work is very thorough and they can think laterally about candidates and have a profound understanding of the organisation and the applicants. They also have a talent for guiding organisations through decisions which they may make infrequently, enabling organisations to act in a decisive way. EP also represent excellent value for money.

We were thrilled with Bernice's work and advice. She was as excited as us to use the Be Applied 'blind' hiring platform to help debias our Board member recruitment and she just totally understood both our organisation and our needs, as well as being a fantastic source of advice on best practice as we went through the process, including the interviews.

I have found EP efficient, effective (and good value) on a number of occasions and will happily recommend them.