How can charity trustees centre lived experience?

Many charities recognise that involving people with lived experience is an essential part of achieving their impact. However, it isn’t always clear where to start or how to meaningfully embed lived experience and fully support those involved. When it comes to governance and decision-making, lived experience involvement can take many forms, depending on a charity’s purpose, activities and structure. In other words, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to involving people with lived experience.

Trustees play a crucial role in creating space for people with lived experience to be a meaningful part of driving impact and bringing about change. First trustees must establish you want to involve lived experience in governance, what benefits it would bring, and crucially, what is possible for your charity as it stands.why

In this free event, run in partnership with , and targeted at trustees, we will:Clothworkers Company

• Explore different approaches to involving people with lived…