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1 Quick guide to joining a committee

2 Quick guide to finding new committee members

3 Quick guide to user involvement

4 Sample Documents

Job/Role Descriptions

Recruitment Documents

Skills Audits

Conflict of Interest

Codes of Conduct/Governance Codes

Sub Committee Remits

Meetings

AGMs

Patrons

5 Frequently Asked Questions on Governance

1. What is governance?

2. Who are the committee members?

3. What is the role of the committee?

4. The committee's role in governance

5. What qualifications are needed to be on a committee?

6. What qualities are needed to be on a committee?

7. Should we do a skills audit?

8. Who should we get on the committee?

9. The different perspectives of committee members

10. How do we recruit committee members?

11. How do you become a committee member?

12. Starting on the committee - induction and committments

13. Job Descriptions for specific roles - chair, treasurer, secretary etc

14. User Involvement and Participation on Committees

15. What are governance codes?

16. Why are there so many different names for the committee and its members?

17. What are ex-officio, holding, custodian and co-opted committee members?

18. Advisory and steering committees

19. Can we have collective decision making? There is some confusion over who has a right to take part in our committee meetings.

20. Constitutions

21. Sub-committees

22. Users

23. Conflict of Interest

24. Members

25. Meetings

26. AGMs

27. Assessing the committee's performance

28. Patrons