Vacancies on your governing board? Our recruitment services are here to help. We find dedicated school governors for boards in need across England and Wales.
As a charity, we’re proud to support all types of state-funded schools and academies, including mainstream and special provisions, to find school governors. Our free to access service matches governing boards with local volunteers.
If you’re looking for a chair of governors, please visit our Chair Recruitment Service page.
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9/10 schools would recommend our school governor recruitment services, as demonstrated in our five-year impact report (produced alongside FTI Consulting).
We’ve also placed nearly 40,000 volunteers into school governance roles over the past 25 years. As a charity, it’s our mission to ensure your school has the people, knowledge and focus it needs to flourish.
Alongside our free offering, we also provide an Enhanced Recruitment Service. This is ideal for boards that need to find school governors with specific skill sets, have multiple vacancies, or need volunteers at a faster rate.
Our team uses a mix of proactive outreach and targeted headhunting to strengthen your board. All new starters receive access to our comprehensive school governor induction.
We partner with multi academy trusts (MATs) to strengthen governance at every level. We understand the importance of having skilled and committed leaders, and work closely with MATs to recruit governance volunteers for governing boards.
If you’re an academy trust wanting to learn how we can support your governance needs, visit our academy trust partnerships page.
Every school/academy trust has different budgets. That’s why we continue to offer our free to access matching service.
However, where boards have multiple vacancies, or require specific skill sets to deliver effective governance – we also offer a number of paid for offerings. These include our Enhanced Recruitment Service and Chair Recruitment Service, which use targeted headhunting and proactive outreach to find school governors.
As a charity, these services allow us to continue our work sustainably, while ensuring schools and trusts have effective governance in place. The below services brochure outlines all our services, including the benefits of opting for our paid-for offerings.
Services brochure
Inclusion is at the heart of what we do. With 25 years experience in the education governance space, we understand it’s vital that children see people of all backgrounds in board-level positions.Â
We believe that a diverse governing board is a stronger board, reflecting school communities and the wider country. You can read more about how we find school governors with different lived experiences and skill sets, to improve diversity on your board.
Our CPD-certified induction course for school governors is a course ideally suited to those new to education. It offers information about key language, regulations and acronyms within the education sector so school governors can fully engage with meetings and school visits early into their role.
Each section contains real examples of actions and questions – to help them develop best practice and get the ball rolling from day one.
Volunteers who don’t live in the school’s local area can join the board through remote governance. By joining meetings remotely through video calls, they can bring their skills to schools struggling to fill vacancies and offer an outside perspective.Â
Remote governance enables schools to improve board diversity, source different skill sets, and gain the experience and perspective of someone outside the community. That’s why we also find school governors who are happy to work remotely.
Register your school vacancy below and a member of our team will be in touch regarding next steps.
Have a question that hasn't been answered? Want to explore how we can support your governing board?
Drop us an email at [email protected] and a member of our recruitment team will get back to you.
Looking to find a school governor in Wales? Find out how we work with schools in Wales, available to read in both Welsh and English.