Not-for-profit recruiter People Unlimited is working with financial services provider Legal & General to place 10 senior management leaders in charity trusteeships.

The programme aims to engage skilled senior managers from technical and commercial backgrounds with charities as well as provide tailor-made workshops for charities to ensure readiness to recruit and induct new trustees.

Senior managers participate out of personal choice and will be given time off from their current jobs at Legal & General to attend charity board and sub-committee meetings, while  the charity will be supported by People Unlimited’s Trustee Recruitment Team, providing recruitment services as well as governance and recruitment workshops funded by Legal & General.

Charities should contact Catherine Whitmore, head of trustee recruitment at People Unlimited on 020 7939 7436 or email [email protected]  

Participating charities need to have the mechanisms in place to offer a trusteeship to a Legal & General employee by the end of July 2010, have sub-committee meetings at least once every quarter and be registered with the Charities Commission before the end of last month.