Digital Trustees (thirdsectorlab.co.uk/digital-trustees) is helping build a future where every charity board has the confidence, skills and experience to lead well in a digital world, and where the UK becomes a global leader in technology governance across civil society.
We connect charities with professionals who have expertise in digital, data, design, technology, cyber and AI, helping boards strengthen their decision-making and giving employees a meaningful way to use their skills for social impact.
For charities, the benefit is access to expertise that can be difficult or expensive to find. The right trustee or board adviser can help leaders ask better questions, understand risk, challenge assumptions and make stronger decisions about everything from cyber security and data to AI and digital services.
For employees, it is a high-impact form of skills-based volunteering. People can contribute expertise that charities genuinely need while developing valuable experience in leadership, governance, strategy and board-level decision-making.
For employers, Digital Trustees offers a practical route to deeper employee volunteering and social value. It helps organisations move beyond one-off volunteering activity and create opportunities where staff can make a lasting contribution, develop strategic skills, their network and bring new perspectives back into the workplace.
Digital Trustees is run by Third Sector Lab, with more than 18 years’ experience helping charities make better use of digital, data and design.
We have worked with organisations including The National Lottery Community Fund, The Robertson Trust, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Scotland Women in Technology, alongside corporate partners looking to strengthen the impact of their employee volunteering.
Our ambition is bigger than individual placements. We want stronger charity boards, more meaningful use of professional skills and a civil society sector that leads, rather than follows, on digital and technology governance.
The transformacy Social Value Network is a growing community of organisations — social enterprises, charities, training providers, community groups and purpose-led businesses — each delivering genuine social value in their field and their region.
Think of it as a trusted pool of partners. When organisations make social value commitments — through a Public Sector tender, a Section 106 agreement, or their own strategy — they need credible partners to help deliver them on the ground. The network exists to connect that need with the organisations best placed to meet it.
Every member is chosen for the quality and authenticity of the social value they create, so the network stays something people can genuinely rely on — a shortcut to trusted, capable partners rather than an open directory. Each member has a profile setting out what they do, who they serve and where they operate, and displays the transformacy Social Value Network member badge as a mark of their place in the community.
Being part of the transformacy Social Value Network means:
Visibility — a profile within a trusted, curated network seen by organisations actively looking for social value partners.
Opportunity — the chance to be called upon when our clients and contacts need delivery partners for their social value commitments.
Recognition — the transformacy Social Value Network member badge to display on your own website, signalling your place in a trusted community.
Connection — a place within a growing community of like-minded, purpose-led organisations.