Charity governance is an important part of the day-to-day running of our county and exists to support the County Leadership Team in meeting its responsibilities. Our governance function ensures that scouting at county level is run safely and legally and supports this area of work across the county. The County Trustee Board is specifically responsible for providing the support needed to ensure we deliver our county strategy; key policy decisions; approval of the county development plan and for acting on matters relating to finance, the county development and volunteer support service and the South London Scout Centre. |
Our trustees work in partnership with our County Leadership Team to ensure the County is run safely and legally. At the heart of their role is a focus on strategy, performance and assurance.
Effective Trustee Board administration helps our governance team stay on target and deliver the support our adults need so that they can continue to provide amazing programmes that help give young people the skills they need to succeed in life.
Trustee Board Administrator
Our Board Administrator provides support to our board members, board facilitators, and any other relevant stakeholders:
distributing board meeting details
compiling and circulate trustee meeting agendas, minutes, and meeting papers before meetings (after liaison with the Chair of trustees)
providing administrative support to the board as required
maintain a lists of agreed actions from trustee meetings and distribute these shortly after board meetings to the trustees
maintain a list of any agreed actions decided between trustee meetings, for example via discussions in our trustee WhatsApp group, or via email and distribute these to the trustees before the next trustee meeting for formal agreement
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Our organisation function provides strategic leadership, line management, incident management and inspiration to lead volunteers. It also manages the day-to-day provision of growth and development and support services, and ensures our wider county team is fully developed, organised, and focussed on supporting programme delivery. The function has overall responsibility for ensuring that the needs of our county and districts are met and provides advice on a number of day-to-day operational key areas and topics. It also monitors and coordinates the work of all of our county functions and has overall responsibility for the implementation of our county strategic plan |
Our County Support Team provides tools, resources and support services to help the County run smoothly.
The team supports:
- Create relationships with other organisations
- fundraising (if needed)
- Day to day finance administration
Note takers at our team meetings
We are looking to build a small team of note takers to record the actions decided at our county meetings and write the occasional email.
Microsoft 365 Administrator
We are currently in the process of setting up our new larger County Team on Microsoft 365. To do this effectively we need a specialist with particular skills in managing Microsoft 365 as a online global administrator. Providing deployment, end to end administration and maintenance of Microsoft 365, Teams and related applications, including SharePoint on-line and technical Issues and requests for Microsoft 365 Teams and related applications.
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Our places function provides hands-on advice and support to our district’s leadership teams, it is also responsible for our internal communications and our public perception of scouting. Places is also home to our South London Scout Centre support team who manage every aspect of the running, maintaining, and developing the centre. |
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Our Centre Team is responsible for the day-to-day running and development of the South London Scout Centre.
Their centre management responsibilities include:
- The day-to-day management and operation of the centre
- Overall finance and budget control
- Centre administration
- premises policies
- health and safety
- Volunteer support structure
- Centre branding and publicity
Their centre development responsibilities include:
- Overarching operations and project management
- Project finance and budget control
- Project administration – direction of the project and development plan
- Scope of works
- Fundraising campaign
- Communications and marketing
- Membership and stakeholder consultation
The Fort Service Team
Our centre service team help manage and run the centre and ensure that it is well maintained and welcoming for all our visitors and users, so they have an enjoyable and memorable time.
Anyone over 16 years can be a member of our team – students, Explorers, Network members leaders, Supporters, parents of members, retired professionals, or simply those wanting to get involved in something different and rewarding for a couple of hours a week or month etc.
There is no requirement to have been previously involved in local scouting before joining. All that is required is a willingness to volunteer some time to support the running of the centre during busy times.
Our programme function supports the youth programme across the county, enabling all young people to take part and work towards their top awards. The function also aims to plan a programme of county events, activities, trips and expeditions for all sections. That compliments programmes being delivered at District level. It also provides a network of activity experts and activity support teams. |
Opportunities will be added here soon!
Our people function ensures that everyone that volunteers within our county teams have a quality volunteering experience. This function also provides various levels of support to Districts and Groups and volunteering services at County level. These include making it easy for people to join, welcome and induction, personal development and learning new skills, recognition, and appointment review. The function also supports the Young Leaders Scheme and is home to the County Youth Team. |
Opportunities will be added here soon!