People Unlimited creates charity trustee roles-Trustee appointments News 06 May 2010

Staff from a financial services provider will boost their skills by taking up trustee roles within a number of charities.

Recruitment specialist People Unlimited has set up a new project where senior managers at Legal & General can use their existing experience to benefit a not-for-profit organisation.

Graham Precey, head of CSR at Legal & General, said: "We have broken away from the traditional non executive development route for managers in the FTSE 350 and created a scheme that benefits individuals, the sector and society as a whole."

Volunteers will be excused from their usual duties to provide support, guidance and expertise to a charity by attending board and sub-committee meetings and making decisions about how resources are spent.

Do-it.org advises that taking on such a role can be a challenge as well as being rewarding and "extremely interesting".

The Legal & General scheme is expected to continue for some time with mutual benefit for individuals and charitable groups, added David Lale, chairman of People Unlimited.

People Unlimited are specialists in recruitment for Charity Careers

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