Our Council of Governors

The WWL board is also supported and held to account by our Council of Governors. They play a key role in appointing our non-executive board members and this year have supported us to make three new appointments. Like our board, governors wanted to take positive action to increase the diversity of the Council and better represent groups which are currently underrepresented through their make-up. We therefore launched a pilot to fill several development governor positions, seeking to attract candidates from, or working with, underrepresented groups to join us for a partial tenure. We are already starting to see how effective these post holders are in supporting us to strengthen the Council’s ability to engage more widely with the public, members and voluntary sector partners across the borough and also holding our board to account through a lens influenced by equality, diversity, inclusion and the need to narrow health inequalities. We know that meaningful engagement begins locally and hope that this pilot is the first stepping stone towards community-based governor engagement. Although they hold volunteer posts, our governors remain as committed as ever and their relationship with the board is one of support and collaboration.