Trustee Role

The general duties and responsibilities of a Charity Trustee are clearly set out in the Charities Commission document The essential trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do (CC3) on the UK Government website.

AIMS Trustees set the strategy, policy and financial framework for AIMS. This includes:

• Developing an annual Strategic Plan and budget in collaboration with Volunteers
• Agreeing the responsibilities, action plans and budgets for each Volunteer team
• Reviewing quarterly financial reports and reports from Volunteer teams, including the Management team
• Ensuring that risk is identified and managed
• Approving new and updated policies, position statements and processes, and approving AIMS published material (books, webpages, Journal articles etc.)

AIMS Trustees meet online once a month for ten months of the year and attend an in-person awayday and the AGM. Each Trustee will also provide active oversight of one of our volunteer teams, and will therefore need to attend occasional team meetings. Some Trustee representation at All Volunteers’ meetings and the AGM will also be necessary. For Trustee and Volunteers meetings which Trustees need to attend in person, AIMS will reimburse reasonable expenses, as agreed in advance.

Trustees are expected to prepare for meetings by reading the relevant documents. There will be a need for some additional work outside of Trustee meetings, for example to work on the strategic plan or annual report.

We expect this role to take a minimum of 5-10 hours per month.

A Trustee will not be required to take on an active volunteering role for AIMS in addition to their duties and responsibilities as a Trustee, but may choose to do so if they wish.

The normal term for a Trustee is 3 years but retiring Trustees are eligible for reappointment at an AGM.

No one may be appointed as a Trustee if he or she is a qualified member of any medical profession including as a doctor, midwife, nurse or health visitor.