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4C - How FD’s manage trustees & commitees - Stephen Brooker
1. How FD’s manage trustees
and committees
Stephen Brooker
Russam GMS
Honorary Treasurers Forum
2. Stephen Brooker
FD, British Red Cross
Bursar, Emmanuel College Cambridge
Trustee:
• Remap
• British Council for Prevention of Blindness
• All Saints’ Educational Trust
• Honorary Treasurers Forum
Other:
• Law Society
• NHS
• House of Commons
3. How FD’s manage trustees and
committees
British Red Cross:
• Council of 30 elected members + co-opted
Chair of Finance (ex Coopers partner)
Bursar, Emmanuel College Cambridge
• Governing Body of 70 Fellows
4. How FD’s manage trustees and
committees
• Remap:
- Full and part-time staff
- No high level financial expertise
• British Council for Prevention of Blindness
- Only part-time staff
- No high level financial expertise
• All Saints’ Educational Trust
- Only part-time staff
- With high level financial expertise
5. Law Society
Independent Chair of Audit Committee
• NHS
NXD, Vice Chair and Chair of Audit
• House of Commons Audit Committee
Independent member
6. Rule 1
Know the people – their backgrounds, skills
and specialist experience
8. Rule 2
Keep in touch with them all periodically
But especially with Treasurer/Chair of
Finance/Chair of Audit
9. Rule 3
Be guided by the Chief Exec:
• Above all don’t tread on their toes or pull
across their agenda ...
10. Rule 3
Be guided by the Chief Exec:
• Above all don’t tread on their toes or pull
across their agenda
• Include the Chair of Trustees but again don’t
tread on their toes or pull across their
agendas with other trustees
13. Rule 4
Watch
Listen
Learn ...... and
- Adapt your approach
- Stand your ground....but
• Recognise:
• When you’re beaten on an issue
• The areas where the Trustees
just don’t agree with you
14. How FD’s manage trustees and
committees
1. Know the people
2. Keep in touch
3. Be guided by the Chief Exec
4. Watch, Listen, Learn ... And ...
a. Adapt
b. Stand your ground
c. Recognise when you’re beaten