Since 2019 we’ve been working across the charity sector to challenge the norm of governance and champion the role of young people in decision-making spaces. If you’re here, you know that less than 3% of trustees are under the age of 30. What’s normal is not okay.

With your help and collaboration, we’ve become a small but mighty movement creating ripples across the sector. Check out some of the amazing impacts we’ve made via our blog page.

Now in 2024, we want to reflect on where we’ve been, what our learning is and where we want to go. This is where you come in! We need your invaluable insights and feedback to help us shape our movement goals in the coming years.

We want to co-produce our strategy, true to The Young Trustees Movement DNA. It will be open, transparent and reflective. We will deliver this process as a consultation with the movement (that’s you) and with young people as decision-makers.

We will be looking back to learn from what went well and what we don’t want to repeat. We will look ahead to the future we want to envision and the role we want to play.

We will also be looking around us. The ecosystems have changed since the Young Trustees Movement began in 2019, and we want to deepen our understanding of the impact we can make in an ever-changing world.

We hope to speak to the people who have been part of the movement from the start (before we even became the Young Trustees Movement), to the amazing organisations and allies that have propelled our mission forward, to young people who are aspiring to become trustees and those that have been active in trustee roles. We hope to speak to people who might not know much about what we do or why it matters. We hope to create space for complex, and joyful conversations.

We’re going to host learning conversations and share our findings for public comment. We’re seeking your ideas and feedback to validate, disrupt or broaden what we think is possible.

By March we hope to have an updated direction of travel in the form of a ‘live’ strategy manifesto and document (we don’t know what this will look like yet!)

We hope that this new, accessible and open communication of our movement goals for the coming years will shine a light on our work and help guide us as we seek to untangle a system that isn’t working and create opportunities for our movement actions and impact to be amplified.

Between December and February, we will be holding open learning conversations so that you can share your ideas and feedback to help shape our strategy and vision in the coming years. All events will be added to the events section on our website and shared via our newsletter.

Are you a young person?

Join us on the 11th of December. RSVP via Eventbrite

Are you a member of an organisation that supports our vision? Are you an individual advocate for our work or want to be?

Join us on the 21st of January. RSVP via Eventbrite

*Note: please feel welcome to attend more than one learning conversation. We know that you might be a young person and also part of an allied organisation or an existing advocate for our work.

We will also be sharing our learning in an open and accessible way for your input and review in February/March 2025.

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Co-creating/co-producing:

Working with the movement, young people and supporters to create something together collaboratively.

Strategy:

A detailed plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim or goals.

With thanks to Wayne Murray for his unwavering support and encouragement as we navigate this process.