Celebrating Trustee Week 2025 with P3 Charity

This National Trustee Week, we’re celebrating the people behind the P3 Group – Trustees who oversee P3 Charity and P3 Housing, providing strong oversight and vision, ensuring accountability and bringing valuable experience and perspective.  

With industry-led skills, insight and life experience, our charity Trustee Board and Housing Board helps shape better decisions across our organisation, ensuring we uphold the highest standards as well as create real impact.  

What is a Trustee?  

By definition, a Trustee is someone who holds overall responsibility for a charity’s management, financial propriety and administration. They work as a group (known as the ‘Board’) to set the charity’s direction, oversee its activities and ensure it meets all legal and ethical obligations. 

In simpler terms, Trustees are the people who guide, support and safeguard a charity through strategic decisions, overseeing finances and working closely in support of the senior leadership team. At P3, our Trustees are volunteers who bring charity and housing sector insights, volunteering their skills, time and energy in aid of a cause they believe in.  

A Trustee’s role sits in a legal framework that required Trustees to undertake essential duties including:  

• Ensuring the charity carries out its purposes for public benefit  

• Complying with a charity’s governing document and the law  

• Acting in a charity’s best interest  

• Ensuring a charity is held accountable for its actions 

• Managing a charity’s financial resources and responsibilities 

• Acting with care and skill  

While P3 Charity and P3 Housing are now two separate organisations following P3 Housing’s conversion to a charitable Community Benefit Society in 2024, the Board of P3 Housing are also Trustees. Chaired by Adam Hackett and Gill Moy, the two Boards together total 18 Trustees for the P3 Group.  

Adam Hackett, Chair for P3 Charity’s Board of Trustees, said: “The kernel of the role of a trustee and of the P3 Charity Group Board is to be ‘eyes on, hands off.’ Each trustee brings a wealth of experience in life, their careers and qualifications. It is an exhilarating challenge supporting the Executive Leadership Team and P3 staff across 17 counties of the UK.  

We are developing and structuring new pathways to trusteeship to bring vigour, youth and ideas to our boards. Already through [P3’s] People Board, we have a route for persons with lived experience of our services to attend meetings of the board and to become trustees. Similarly, in common with other charities, we are considering Associate Trusteeship.” 

Celebrating P3’s Trustees  

Our Trustee Board and our Housing Board provide valuable advice and guidance that help P3 grow in the right direction, ensuring that our decisions remain rooted in our purpose. Our Boards play a key part in helping the people we support live secure and independent lives.  

As ambassadors for P3, they demonstrate outstanding dedication to ensure that we have secure foundations to continue delivering support for years to come.  

Jack Buckler, Director of Governance and Risk for P3 Charity, who facilitates the Trustee Board, said:  

“This Trustees Week, we really want to offer a heartfelt thank you to the Board members of P3 Charity and P3 Housing. They give so much experience, energy and expertise to our charity year after year, often unrecognised, simply because they believe in the power of our mission. They help us to shape our vision, think bigger and ensure we stay true to our values. Their unwavering dedication ensures that the work we do continues to change lives.”  

As we celebrate Trustee Week at P3, we’re reminded that behind every person we support, there is a team of colleagues guided by our dedicated Trustees: leaders who champion integrity, compassion and purpose. Their insight and guidance help shape our future and ensure that together, we continue to make a lasting difference in people’s lives. 

So, a final thanks to our wonderful Trustees:  

For P3 Charity – Adam Hackett, Carol Carter, Sarah Appleby, Richard Bowley, William Cock, Dorothy Lane, Aquilla Lindo-Cozzella, David Morris, Nancy Scott, Omid Shiraji and Yvonne Thomas.  

For P3 Housing – Gill Moy, Robin Flynn, Neil Goodrich, Dorothy Lane, Trevor Rockley, Yvonne Thomas and Andy Ward.  

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