In this film are Tracey Foster, Lancashire Centre for Independent Living and Judith Stephenson, Disability Equality North West.

Resources

Governance Matters - web resources that define governance, roles and responsibilities of the management committee members, examples of code of conduct etc (page link).

How effective is your management board - skill audit tools to identify learning and development needs of your management committee members (download). Also, see Peer Review Skills Audit.  

The roles within the board of trustees - describes responsibilities of the management committee as a whole, and also outlines specific responsibilities of chair, vice chair and treasurer (download).

Governance and management - describes the difference between governance and management, (download).

Developing an effective volunteer policy - This guide from UKDPC is designed to give Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) guidance on recruiting and retaining volunteers (download).