This session is part of Getting On Board’s Trustee Learning Programme, providing free and high-quality training to support people to become and serve as effective trustees.
The climate crisis is not just of relevance to trustees of environmental charities.
To give one example, that of health, the World Health Organisation says “Climate change presents a fundamental threat to human health … It is therefore a threat multiplier, undermining and potentially reversing decades of health progress.”
Trustees of small-medium sized charities, have an important role to play. And trustees of charities which don’t have environmental protection enshrined into their mission should absolutely be focusing on climate change.
Climate change will impact every single charity’s mission and the people, animals or places you are there to serve. It poses significant risk to your work but there are also some big opportunities too, and you may find that you can incorporate these into your existing programmes of work without having to develop new programmes.
But how do you get started? How do you map what the climate crisis means for your charity? How do you even get in on the agenda?
Join our panel to discuss what trustees of small-medium sized charities can do about the climate crisis.
About the session
- The session is free to attend with an option to make a donation of your choice in checkout.
- The session will take place on Zoom. The joining link will be sent in the Eventbrite confirmation email. You will also receive email reminders from Eventbrite 2 days, 2 hours and 10 minutes before the session starts. These reminders will also include the joining link.
- The session will be recorded and be later uploaded to our YouTube channel. We’re so pleased as to how popular our sessions have been, many have sold out. Please only book a ticket if you intend to join the session live. We’d totally recommend subscribing to our YouTube channel so you can be kept up to date with all the new uploads.
- If the session uses slides, we will send these to all who have booked a ticket following the session. Our panel sessions don’t use slides. If you having the slides prior to the session will make it more accessible for you, please email info@gettingonboard.org and we will gladly send them to you.
- As an attendee, you can enable closed captions during the session. For panels, we ‘spotlight’ panelists so the view stays consistently on those speaking. If you have booked a ticket, please contact info@gettingonboard.org if there are other adjustments we can make to the session to make it accessible to you.
- Getting on Board’s sessions are specifically for trustees of charities registered in England and Wales, although many of the principles of effective, inclusive trusteeship are broadly the same wherever trustees are based. Trustees of charities in Scotland and Northern Ireland are welcome to attend our sessions but should check local differences and will find excellent support from OSCR, SCVO, Inspiring Scotland, Charity Commission Northern Ireland and NICVA (Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action).
