Reports 2015-07-04

Govcom report

CEO Appointment: Govcom noted that the recruitment process had been restarted with a new agency and the experience so far was positive. This is being dealt with by a CEO search panel of MM, CC, CK and KW (trustees) and DM (CEO), the panel reporting to the board directly.

AGM: Govcom discussed elections to the Board and the need to make clear what skills mix would be useful. It was agreed that skills and experience relating to GLAM, education and community/volunteer engagement would be particularly valuable. There was a discussion about the resolutions the Board wishes to put to the AGM. The committee agreed that it was particularly important to be able to have non-trustees serving on our committees and recommends to the Board the six proposed resolutions set out in the board meeting agenda.

Trustees' Report: D'Arcy reported that Stevie was working on this.

Relations with Volunteers. It was agreed that the forthcoming Volunteer Day needs to build on the last one and be more focused. We need to build in and publicise what our key performance indicators are going to be, how we will be renewing our programmes based on them and how we are intending to involve volunteers in delivering this. MM and SK are leading from the board, with input from CC.

As a result of the need to keep certain matters confidential during the period in which staff redundancies were under discussion, we have not kept up with our normal processes of publishing key documents such as board reports to the community. The committee agreed that Alastair should review documents from previous meetings and consider what should now be published. In addition, we needed to make a clear statement about what we had done and why, explaining the new structure and the role of volunteers as we foresaw it.

There was a discussion about the proposed new Cultural Advisory Panel, which will be a stand-alone entity comprising high-level individuals in the GLAM world invited to contribute their expertise to the charity's and the movement's long-term goals.

We awarded ourselves a transparency score of only 2/5 this quarter, as a result of the constraints on publication of materials during the period of consultation on redundancies.