Our Trustees

Our trustees lead our organisation, by setting our strategy and providing oversight for our Executive team. 

In 2020, as a key part of our transformation, our board became community-led for the first time, with a majority of board members embedded in our local North Kensington community, including our Chair who was for the first time chosen via a community recruitment process. 

Our trustees are appointed in three different ways: 

• Up to six trustees are openly-recruited for the skills and expertise they can offer, such as community insight, finance, property development and law. 
• Three Trustees are nominated by a member organisation. These range from community groups and residents’ associations to schools and sports clubs. 
• Three trustees are nominated by The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (RBKC). 

Our trustees abide by the Trustee Code of Conduct, which was adopted in 2023. 

All trustees share the responsibility to ensure that our assets and resources ‘ such as rental income from properties – are used to the best advantage of our local communities.  The Trustees are all volunteers. 

Trustees normally serve a maximum of two consecutive terms of three years, but in exceptional circumstances a Trustee may be permitted to serve a third consecutive term of office, for example if the Trustee in question has particular skills or experience that the Trust cannot readily replace. 

Co-optees 

In addition to our community-led board of trustees, our co-optees, who are not trustees, bring an additional level of expertise, experience and community insight. They may also bring specific skills or professional experience to any of our committees. 

We draw our co-optees from the local community and beyond to offer support on the following committees: 

• Charitable Purposes Committee 
• Property & Place Committee 
• People Committee 
• Finance and Risk Committee