The board of Trustees
Cambridge Students’ Union (SU) is a charity, and therefore has a governing body called the Board of Trustees. Trustees have ultimate responsibility for the Union’s management, administration, governance (how the Union is structured), budget and strategy. The Trustees of the students’ union have ultimate legal responsibility for ensuring that the students’ union complies with the law, including the requirements of charity law.
Cambridge SU is a democratic charity: almost all decisions are made by student representatives at SU Council. However, decisions regarding the legality of the students’ union’s actions, staffing matters, and many financial matters are ultimately overseen and enacted by the Board of Trustees.
Trustees are the guardians of the union’s assets and they are under a legal duty to act in the best interests of the charity, which involves making balanced and informed decisions about what will best enable the charity to carry out its purposes on behalf of its beneficiaries, the students of the University of Cambridge. Trustees must implement realistic and reasonable risk management strategies and processes to identify and mitigate risks to the charity’s funds and assets.
The Trustee Board, under the rules detailed in our Articles of Association, consists of:
- Up to five elected sabbatical officers (this includes the two elected Presidents and up to three others selected from the sabbatical officer team)
- Up to three student member trustees
- Up to four external trustees
Meet the Board
Student Trustees
Stefan Mitikj
Student Trustee (PG)
Finance
Anoushka Kale
Student Trustee (UG)
Appointments
Matthew Copeman
Student Trustee (UG)
Governance, Compliance & Legal Affairs
Remuneration & HR
External Trustees
Lewys Thomas
External Trustee
Finance (Chair)
Simon To
External Trustee, Deputy Chair
Appointments (Chair)
Gemma Donaldson
External Trustee
Remuneration & HR (Chair)
Demetrius Floudas
External Trustee
Governance, Compliance & Legal Affairs
Sabbatical Trustees
Katie Clarke
Access, Education & Participation Officer (UG)
Remuneration & HR
Sarah Anderson
President (UG)
Chair of the Board
Finance (ex officio)
Governance, Compliance & Legal Affairs (Chair)
Minutes
2024-2025
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
Sub-committee Terms of Reference
2024-2025