About FVA

Roles and Responsibilities of a Trustee/Committee/Board Member

Book a place

When
Tuesday 17 November 2026, 18:00 to 21:00
Where
Corn Exchange
St Catherine Street
Cupar
KY15 4BT
Cost
Free to attend – no payment is needed.

Non-attendance fee £20.00 per person. This event is free, but to make sure places are not wasted we charge this for anybody who has a place booked and does not come. Cancel up to 5 working days before and there is nothing to pay. You can also send somebody else in your place at any time, with no fee.

Trustees are the people who are in charge of a charity, sometimes also called Board members or Committee members. Trustees are the lifeblood of our sector - without trustees there would be no charities operating in Fife!

This free training session is designed to help new or potential Trustees to understand their role and responsibilities so that they can enjoy and thrive in their role free from stress or worries by understanding what they can and should be doing. It includes practical examples and time to answer your specific queries.

This course is intended to encourage new and to support existing trustees/board members in the valuable voluntary work they undertake and includes:

  • What is governance and why does it matter?
  • What could go wrong? Why does it go wrong?
  • Understanding the role
  • Perceptions & boundaries
  • Accountability
  • Delegated tasks
  • Conflicts of Interest
  • Meetings
  • Seeking help

Who should attend?

New and existing trustees/board/committee members who want to learn or refresh their knowledge and skills of their role.

Restrictions

To ensure as many trustees/board/committee members as possible have the opportunity to attend, we will restrict places to 2 per organisation in the first instance.

Your details

We need these so we can send your confirmation and contact you about the event.

Your job title or role – leave it blank if none applies.
Your organisation's, or your own. It helps us work out where to run sessions.

Anyone else coming?

Only if you are booking for colleagues as well. Leave it empty if the place is just for you.

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Before you submit this

Access, dietary and other requirements. Please use the boxes above to tell us about any access, communication, dietary or other requirement, for yourself or anybody you are booking for. We will do our best to meet what you tell us, and we will get in touch if we think we might struggle to, or if we need to know a bit more.

Refreshments. There is normally tea, coffee, water and biscuits. Lunch and anything else is only provided where the event description above says so.

Your place is not confirmed yet. When you submit this form we will e-mail you an acknowledgement of what you have told us. That is not a confirmation. We will look at the request and send a separate e-mail confirming or declining it, as soon as we can.

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