The Role of Trustee
As a Trustee, you’ll play a vital role in shaping the direction of the organisation, ensuring we meet our goals and stay true to our mission. Trustees are responsible for overseeing strategy, governance, and financial sustainability. You won’t be involved in day-to-day operations, but your input will help guide the bigger picture and support the team to deliver impact.
- Ensuring that high standards of corporate governance are always observed.
- Ensuring that The Road Safety Trust identifies and manages its risks effectively.
- Subject to the requirement that The Road Safety Trust maintains its independence, ensuring that, in reaching decisions, the Board has taken into account directions issued by the Government and the Police and that the Trustees:
- Act within their powers.
- Act in good faith and only in the interests of the charity.
- Make sure they are sufficiently informed.
- Take account of all relevant factors and ignore any irrelevant factors.
- Manage conflicts of interest, including considering whether the Police Force Trustee has a conflict of interest and should be excluded from the decision-making process.
- Upholding the trusteeship nature of the position in such a way as to add external trust and confidence for the organisation.
- Determining the overall direction and development of The Road Safety Trust, through good governance and clear strategic planning.
Primary Responsibilities of The Position
As a Trustee, we’ll need you to deliver these key responsibilities:
- Promote and develop The Road Safety Trust whilst retaining its core values and aims.
- Attend and contribute to regular Board meetings and committees.
- Ensure The Road Safety Trust complies with legislative and regulatory requirements, acts within the framework of its governing documentation and in furtherance of its strategic aims.
- Promote the organisation and facilitate links between The Road Safety Trust and other initiatives in the relevant field.
- Support recruitment throughout the organisation.
- Act in the best interests of The Road Safety Trust.
- Provide advice and support, where necessary, to the senior management team (as appropriate).
- Ensure sound management of resources, ensuring that any investment/new activity meets appropriate criteria of organisational aims and objectives.
- Act as a banking counter signatory.
- Oversee the charity’s financial performance, risk management and use of resources to ensure sustainability.
- Maintain absolute confidentiality about all sensitive/confidential information received in the course of being a Trustee.
- Safeguard the assets of the organisation and ensure they are used effectively and exclusively in pursuit of its objectives.
- Monitor financial performance and ensure appropriate financial controls and risk management are in place.
- Support and challenge the executive team to ensure effective delivery of the organisation’s aims.
- Serve as a member of any relevant sub-committees, such as the Audit & Risk Committee.
- Help ensure compliance with statutory and legal obligations of UK law.
- Monitor and support effective governance practices, including oversight of policies, risk frameworks, and compliance.
As a Collective Body, the Board of The Road Safety Trust will:
- Monitor the progress, finances and impact of the organisation by receiving reports on a timely basis (including reports as required of its trading subsidiary UKROEd).
- Oversee the financial probity of the organisation, ensuring the production of annual financial statements in accordance with the relevant Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP).
- Hold an Annual General Meeting with the membership.
- Ensure the production of an annual report detailing activities, income and expenditure in line with the current SORP.