Getting on Board is a charity which supports people from all sectors of society to become charity board trustees, and charities to recruit and retain a diverse range of trustees.

It’s our guiding belief that board diversity is key to effective decision making, better delivery of a charity’s services and the broader goal of creating a more equitable society.


Helping aspiring trustees:

particularly those who are currently under-represented on trustee boards. The aspiring trustees we support include young people, women, people of colour, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, working class people, and people with lived experience of disenfranchisement.


Helping charities transform:

We help charities in their mission to become more representative of the communities they serve by recruiting and retaining trustees from a diversity of backgrounds and lived experiences.

Partnership working:

Since its foundation in 2004 by Sarah Hodgkinson, Getting on Board has supported thousands of people to become trustees, and worked with numerous organisations to raise awareness of the role of trustees and to train them to become trustees.

Working in partnership with other charities, businesses and myriad other organisations is still at the heart of what Getting on Board does.