Governance Support and Services

How’s your arts charity’s governance?

• Are you looking to refresh your Board membership?

• Have you new Board members who would benefit from governance training?

• Are you working well and looking for a confidential sounding board to bounce future plans off?

• Or are you facing a specific challenge that demands difficult top-level decision making?

Whatever your situation, we want to help you: because we know good governance means stronger arts organisations.

A&B NI’s Governance Programmes include:

• A&B NI Board Matching Programmes: Our Board Bank and Young Professionals on Arts Boards programmes match strategic thinkers from our business membership with the Boards of our Arts Member organisations. This benefits everyone: the new Board members develop their leadership skills in a different environment, and the arts organisation taps into the fresh insights and specialist skill set of their newest member. Click here to download more information, or click here to download an application form. 

• Annual Governance conference 

• Resources and toolkits 

• Free Governance Healthchecks – space to discuss your current governance practice objectively and in confidence

• Whole Board Sessions on topics such as Fundraising, Governance Roles & Responsibilities, Strategic Planning 

For more information, or to talk governance contact Brona Whittaker, b.whittaker@artsandbusinessni.org.uk.

A&B NI is a Helper Group for the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland and also an active member on the Developing Governance Group who developed and maintain the voluntary Code of Good Governance and the underpinning resource site diycommitteeguide.org. Download the Code of Good Governance here.