News Archives - Inspiring Governance

26 May 2023

Volunteers’ Week 2023: could volunteering help you achieve your career goals?

26 May 2023

1-7 June 2023 is Volunteers’ Week, a time to celebrate the invaluable contribution that volunteers make. This coincides with the point of the year that many professionals across the country are considering their professional development plans: could volunteering as a school governor offer the development opportunity you are looking for this year? Being part of […]

29 March 2023

7,000 up!

29 March 2023

This month Inspiring Governance passed the figure of 7,000 brilliant volunteers successfully placed as school governors – each giving up their valuable time and skills to provide critical support and oversight to our school governing boards – the bedrock of our school system. We reached this figure only a week after the Department for Culture, […]

7 March 2023

Meet Liam Anderson: teacher and school governor

7 March 2023

My name is Liam Anderson, I am head of design and technology at a large comprehensive 11-18 academy and have been teaching for 8 years. I am also a co-opted governor at a local state-maintained primary school and have been in post for just over 12 months. What first inspired you to volunteer as a […]

10 January 2023

Three reasons why volunteering as a school governor should be at the top of your 2023 resolution list

10 January 2023

Make a resolution that’s easy to keep: give back. The new year sees many of us resolving to make a change, whether joining a gym, reducing time on screens, spending more time with loved ones – all great goals. But how about a new year’s resolution that is guaranteed to make you feel good longer […]

16 December 2022

‘Tis the season to be jolly…thankful for school governor volunteers!

16 December 2022

The fairy lights are twinkling, Christmas party plans are in full swing, and professionals across the country are starting to look forward to a very well deserved break. It’s the perfect time to take a moment to celebrate every brilliant school governor volunteer that signed up with Inspiring Governance this year – and to encourage […]

22 November 2022

How signing up as a School Governor Champion can benefit your staff and your organisation – for free

22 November 2022

We are thrilled to have welcomed eight new organisations, including local authorities, education trusts, universities, legal and finance, as School Governor Champion partners, who have all committed to promoting the role of school governor to their staff. The David Ross Education Trust, North Lincolnshire Council, Sheffield Student Union, Somerset County Council, Burges Salmon, Charterpath and […]

6 October 2022

Back to School 2022: what have we been up to?

6 October 2022

The new academic year has started with a bang here at Inspiring Governance, with a raft of activity to help promote the role of volunteering as a school governor to people across the country, and to support school boards and trusts planning to recruit new members to their governing boards over the next 9 months. […]

30 May 2022

Volunteers’ Week 2022: a huge thank you to all school governors

30 May 2022

1st June marks the beginning of Volunteers’ Week, a time to celebrate the invaluable contribution that volunteers make to our communities – and we would like to say an extra special thank you to those that volunteer as a school governor. Volunteer school governors bring their expertise, time and passion to the board table to […]

31 March 2022

Inspiring Governance reappointed to deliver governor recruitment service until March 2024

31 March 2022

As of 1st April, Inspiring Governance begins delivering on its’ new contract to provide governor recruitment support to state schools and academies in England. We’re absolutely delighted to continue this vital work, having placed nearly 6,000 governors over time and over 1,250 governors this last financial year – many of them into just those schools […]

21 February 2022

Civil service top brass launch schools volunteering call

21 February 2022

“As a civil servant you have sought-after skills which are essential to supporting and challenging the school leadership to improve outcomes.” This was one of the messages in a Civil Service World article that reviewed an internal blog to civil servants from Department for Education permanent secretary Susan Acland-Hood and chief people officer Rupert McNeil, […]