Can a young person be a Trustee?
Can a young person be a Trustee?
Executive Committees are now known as Trustee Boards. To learn more about what we are doing to improve how we volunteer at Scouts, visit the Volunteer Experience webpages.
All members of Trustee Boards are charity trustees which hold important legal responsibilities and requirements. You can't be a trustee if you are disqualified from being a charity trustee by the Charities Acts.
You’ll find the criteria for disqualification to a role with Trustee responsibilities on POR 13.1.
Anybody else can be a charity trustee within the Scouts. All Youth Commissioners are ex-officio trustees of their local District or County Trustee Boards. Where possible, Group, District and County Trustee Boards should have at least two young people (18-25 year-olds).
A person under the age of 18 cannot act as a charity trustee. However, they can attend Trustee Board meetings as a guest (with no formal vote).