Peer Action the HIV+ peer support and social group for people in Sussex living with HIV need new trustees.
Recent changes at the charity have left Peer Action with space for some new trustees, who will serve for a renewable period of 3 years. If you would like to get more involved, your help would be appreciated. The addition of a couple of additional people will add to flexibility, skills and long-term stability of the team.
Chair of Peer Action, Mike Nelson, said: “In the last few months we have had a few changes to our trustees: – our two most recent probationary trustees will not now be joining us – Our nominee Treasurer (financial accounting) sadly died unexpectedly and our thoughts are with his friends and family. In addition, our most recent probationary trustee decided that after trying the role for a short period, that this was for them – sadly it’s not that unusual for prospective trustees to decide committee work isn’t for them and revert to being involved with specific activities.”
“Last month – two of our long serving trustees; who together helped us progress towards charitable status; decided they had done their few years and it was time to move on. We would like to thank Chris and Julia for all their help with the games nights, Pride, garden parties and numerous other initiatives.”
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Mike continued: “At Peer Action we like to focus on delivering activities and groups and less on who is responsible for what. However, as a registered charity we are required to have a board of elected trustees to be accountable.
“Frankly, being a trustee is not that exciting – it is just necessary for an organisation to continue. We have to find money, write bids, review the accounts, set policy, provide returns to funders to show what we did, check legal compliance and insurance, send the charity commission reports and worry about the scope of what we do.”
“Come along to our next steering group. The first step can be as simple as helping with a newsletter or arranging an event. We are very happy for people to take a while to get involved and find a role that fits them. While we take time to engage new trustees, Peer Action will continue as before; the calendar is as planned and we are even expanding one or two of our trips.”
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