Board Recruitment
High-performing trustee boards are key to an organisation's success. We recruit chairs, trustees and non-executive directors to ensure effective governance and empower strategic leadership.
Boards drive strategy, ask the right questions and constructively challenge and support the CEO and executive team. They ensure the organisation moves in the right direction and fulfils its purpose with the utmost impact.
Contact us to recruit your boardValues-led board recruitment of chairs, trustees and non-executive directors for the UK charity and education sectors.
Our board recruitment practice focuses on engaging top-tier talent to drive governance and strategic leadership.
We tell your organisation’s compelling story and use this, alongside rigorous research and search, to engage high-calibre talent with diverse skills and experience that meet your board’s needs and brief.
AI, safeguarding, EDI, funding, economic challenges and national and global social and political change mean that organisations need to be agile, diverse, and skilled in broader thinking to adapt successfully to the external environment and ensure effectiveness and sustainability.
Any board must provide good governance that offers oversight and assurance. They must assess risk intelligently and provide strategic guidance and challenge, laying the foundations for advancing your organisation in line with your vision, mission and purpose.
A well-executed board recruitment strategy ensures charity boards have the right human dynamics, skills, and high-performance culture. These boards are rich sources of skills, experience, and networks, safeguarding and inspiring organisations to thrive in a dynamic and ever-changing world.
“We have used Peridot for a number of trustee recruitments and have found them to be professional, supportive and effective. The quality of the shortlist they produced on this occasion was outstanding, leading us to make more appointments than originally intended. I look forward to working with them again when we next have board vacancies to fill.”
Company Secretary of the National Autistic Society
Expert board recruitment services for charities and not for profits
We’ve specialised in board recruitment since 2009, placing thousands of leaders on boards. As chairs and board members ourselves, we bring deep insight into the challenges of fostering good governance and strategic leadership. We champion board effectiveness through recruitment, audits and board induction and development training tailored to you.
We listen to your longer-term ambitions and focus on recruiting talented leadership to get you there. We are passionate about the people you need. We focus on long-term, deeply rooted partnerships, meaning we get to know you and your governance needs.
Our board recruitment practice operates across the charity, not for profit, and NHS sectors with all causes, including international, social change, arts and heritage, health, education, younger people, social care and older people.
- Health and social care, including NHS Trusts, housing and hospices
- Children and young people
- Older people
- International non-government organisations
- Environmental, sustainability and green agendas
- Trusts, foundations and grant-givers
- Arts, heritage and culture
- Social enterprises and all social purpose organisations
- Universities, further education and sixth-form colleges
- Educational charities, schools and academy trusts
- Social and criminal justice
- Membership and professional trade associations
Our selected board recruitment track record
Chair of the Board
Action Homeless
Anti-Slavery International
Carers UK
Early Intervention Foundation
GS1 UK
Hospice in the Weald
Mosaic LGBT Youth Centre
Mountbatten Group
Royal Free Charity
The Contact Group
Worksop College
Treasurers and Chair of Finance Committee
Bolton Cares | Treasurer
College of West Anglia | Chair of Finance Committee
Galapagos Conversation Trust | Chair of Finance Committee
National Benevolent Charity | Chair of Finance and Investment Committee
Refugee Employment Network | Treasurer
Royal Society of Prevention of Accidents | Treasurer
University of Derby | Audit and Risk Committee Member
User Voice | Treasurer
Multiple Board Appointments
Amref Health Africa UK | Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee and Trustee
Beamish Museum | Chair of the Board and 10x Trustees
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 3x Non-Executive Directors
CARE International UK | 5x Trustees
CPRE – The Countryside Charity | Chair and Trustee
Compton Verney | 3x Trustees
DACS (The Design and Artists Copyright Society) | Chair and Non-Executive Directors
Galapagos Conservation Trust | Chair and 3x Trustees
Jane Goodall Institute UK and Belgium | 15x Board Members
Healthcare Without Harm | 9x Trustees
Innovation Unit | 3x Trustees
IOSH | 9x Trustees
Mental Health Matters | 6x Trustees
Nacro | Chair of Finance and Audit Committee
P3 | 5x Trustees
Parentkind | Chair, Treasurer and 8x Trustees
Public Law Project | Chair and 3x Trustees
Sainsbury Centre | 6x Trustees
Scottish Ballet | 2x Trustees
The Children’s Trust | 5x Trustees
VSO International | 7x Trustees
Young Gamblers Education Trust | Chair and Trustees
Organisations we have supported with board recruitment include
“The support provided by Peridot Partners has been faultless from start to finish. We aimed to recruit four new trustees, each of whom had a clear brief regarding skills, experience, and contribution to the Board’s effectiveness, during a challenging post-pandemic environment. We have appointed five high calibre candidates, a recognition of a thorough search, shortlisting, quality interim briefings and enabled through a superb understanding of the Charity! A job well done!”
Chair of Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust
