Charity Recruitment

Working with Eastside People on our trustee recruitment helped to clarify the brief, extend our search and introduce us to candidates who truly understood our organisation and who brought a passion for good governance.

We really appreciated the organised and thorough commitment to understanding the needs of this role within our organisation, in order for the team at Eastside People to shortlist and manage inquiries. Melissa was perceptive and enthusiastic and we enjoyed working with her on this recruitment process.

Eastside People are committed professionals, who care about matching the right candidate to the hiring organisation. They take the time to understand the brief and work collaboratively through the process. It's been a pleasure to work with them!

Recruiting Trustees can be difficult. I have worked with Eastside People twice now and both times they successfully recruited the candidates with the skills and qualities that we asked for. I would thoroughly recommend them.

A professional and personal service, Melissa built a great relationship with us by understanding our needs and adapting as required and provided high quality candidates - thank you for everything!

I would have no hesitation in recommending Eastside People. Bernice and Melissa were instrumental in assisting with our recruitment of a CEO and Head of Operations; they provided excellent advice as to the processes to be followed, the timelines that they recommended and the anticipated remuneration levels. They oversaw collating a strong list of candidates for both jobs, meeting all stated deadlines, and were just so supportive throughout. I would not hesitate to use Eastside again - i am just hoping though that I will not have to for a few years now that they have met our core requirements.

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.

Recruiting Trustees can be difficult. I have worked with Eastside People twice now and both times they successfully recruited the candidates with the skills and qualities that we asked for. I would thoroughly recommend them.

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.

Excellent and I would strongly recommend Eastside People to anyone. The Eastside People team and Paul inspired confidence, listened attentively, understood and worked with us effectively. Quickly established an understanding and a rapport which enabled us to move forward effectively and with confidence.

I felt very confident with Eastside People's support throughout the process.

Extremely professional and supportive. Lucinda really listened to the approach we wanted to take as a Board of Trustees and guided us throughout the whole process. We really appreciated the clear and wise advice given to us and the great ideas on how to involve our wider team of stakeholders in the appointment process. I highly recommend Eastside People.

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.

When working with Renu I felt I was working with someone who really cared about finding us the right person and really understood our organisation. I also felt that she cared about her candidates too and presented a very balanced case for all of them. Overall I enjoyed working with Eastside People a lot and would totally recommend it as an agency who has the right balance between care for the client, access to good candidates and efficiency of whole process.

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.

We have worked with Eastside People on both interim and permanent recruitment and have been really impressed with their service. They have been great at understanding our needs, finding high quality candidates and providing helpful guidance and advice along the way.

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 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.

Bernice was a pleasure to work with; she has a warm and engaging style, and holds to the highest professional stands. The interim finance professional sourced for us added value to our organisation in a focused way

Eastside People has successfully recruited key roles within our charity which are crucial to our ongoing development and growth. Their professionalism, sector knowledge and expertise, as well as practical advice and guidance, ensured a successful and enjoyable recruitment experience for all. The team at Eastside People created a wonderful recruitment pack that gave insight and a window into who Wandsworth Oasis is and what we stand for. I know that helped attract the best candidates. Thank you EP!!

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!

Nike (new CEO) is excellent and already making great progress with BSIR. We are delighted with her appointment!

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 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.

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.

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.

This is definitely a service that we will use going forward. It is very useful to work with a specialist with our charity space. The understanding of our requirements and the importance of candidate-job fit is amplified when we know that our recruitment partner already knows our environment, but more importantly focuses on our specific needs as a client. I highly recommend EP.

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

Bernice was a fantastic support when we were recruiting our new Head of Fundraising. She took the time to really understand the role and how it would fit in with the organisation and as result we were presented with an excellent selection of quality candidates. Bernice was supportive throughout the whole recruitment process and I would highly recommend her services to other organisations.

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.