About Us
Boardmatch is the only Irish charity that specialises in charity board recruitment.
We match individuals that are looking to volunteer their time and skills at board level, with charities and not-for-profits that have board and committee vacancies.
We believe the right balance of skilled voluntary trustees provides a not-for-profit with the necessary skills to respond to changes, meet the challenges of the sector and to achieve their strategic objectives.
Boardmatch does this primarily through:
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A FREE online matching service matching individuals from the corporate/public sectors to Not-For-Profit boards.
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A bespoke Premium Board Search service for not-for-profit organisations.
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Developing and providing training packages and other supports for boards.
Our core objective is building the governance capacity of not-for-profit boards. We have over 1,000 not-for-profits registered with us and have placed over 3,000 candidates onto not-for-profit boards.
Boardmatch Ireland was established in 2005 to address the skills needs of the governing bodies of Not-For-Profits. It was established by a strong board including Mary Redmond of Arthur Cox, Siobhan Toale of Bank of Ireland, Roger Acton of ACCA, Kieran Loughran of the Disability Federation of Ireland and Mary Davis of Special Olympics.
To date, Boardmatch Ireland has facilitated the appointment of over 3,000 individuals to the boards of Not-For-Profits.
15th Birthday Storybook
We are delighted to celebrate 15 years of connecting prospective trustees to charity boards. Download our full PDF Storybook, filled with trustee stories from the last 15 years.
Research
Research Report 2022
Download Ireland's Not-for-Profit Boards: Catalysts, Challenges and Composition
Co-Authored by Goodbody and Boardmatch
Our Team
Eva joined Boardmatch Ireland in 2011 and is the longest serving employee at Boardmatch. Eva was promoted to CEO in 2018 having held the position of Director since 2015. Eva is responsible for the overall strategic direction of Boardmatch, ensuring it achieves its objectives and continues to strengthen boards and make them more diverse. Eva is passionate about how boards recruit, engaging new audiences to volunteer on boards and innovative in the ways we can do it.
Hannah joined the Boardmatch Ireland team in March 2017. Hannah oversees all aspects of Boardmatch’s marketing and communication, as well as the free matching website for candidates and charities, board training, and board effectiveness reviews.
Caradh joined the team in November 2021. She has thirteen years’ experience working in the Sport and Not-For-Profit sector and manages the Premium Search service within Boardmatch Ireland.
Michelle joined the team in March 2021. With expertise in HR, organisation behaviour, and programme development, she oversees the Boardmatch Leadership Development Programme. Supporting participants, understanding their interests and motivations, Michelle engages with leadership teams in non-profit organisations to identify the best Board opportunities for each participant.
Our Board
Fred Karlsson, Chair
David Owens
Felicity McGrath
Martina Maher
Michael McDonagh
Maura McLaughlin
Liz Roche
Paul Quinn
Chris Hanlon
Our Governance
Boardmatch Ireland is a company limited by guarantee not having a share capital, registered in Dublin, Ireland (company number 400151).
Boardmatch Ireland is registered with the Charities Regulatory Authority, Registered Charity Number (RCN): 20058968.
Boardmatch Ireland is also a registered charity with Revenue (CHY number 16398).
It is Boardmatch Ireland’s policy to promote openness and transparency.
Boardmatch Ireland is currently funded by:
- funding from the Department of Rural and Community Development (25% of total income)
- revenue from the provision of matching services, training, and consultancy to both the commercial and voluntary sector (75% of total income)
Boardmatch are compliant with the Governance Code for Community, Voluntary and Charitable Organisations.
Boardmatch are currently reviewing our governance in line with the Charities' Regulatory Authority's Code of Governance, to ensure our compliancy for the next reporting year.
We have also adopted the use of Charities SORP (FRS102) in our financial statements.
Finance, Audit, and Risk Committee
The Finance, Audit, and Risk Committee meet bimonthly.
Members:
Michael McDonagh
David Owens
Chris Hanlon
Governance Committee
The Governance Committee meet quarterly.
Members:
Maura McLaughlin
Fred Karlsson
Martina Maher
Data Protection & Privacy
Once an individual candidate or not-for-profit organisation registers on our Free Matching website, they fall under the terms and conditions of said website. Both candidates and organisations have the ability and right to notify Boardmatch at any time, by phone (01-6715005) or email (hello@boardmatch.ie), should they wish to have their profile deleted from the Boardmatch database. By registering with Boardmatch Ireland, the user consents to receive information from Boardmatch with regards to the management of their account, and the services Boardmatch offers to assist candidates and organisations with good governance, i.e. our board training and review service. Boardmatch will not contact any website users about anything other than relevant information about boards and voluntary directorships.
Boardmatch has the right to remove candidates’ information from the website if they are no longer active on the service. If a candidate has not logged in to the Boardmatch platform in 12 months or more, Boardmatch will deactivate the candidate’s profile. If a candidate has not logged in to the Boardmatch platform in in 24 months or more, for data accuracy reasons, Boardmatch will delete the candidate’s details from the website. Boardmatch will keep a record of the date of all data changes and deletions from the database.
Boardmatch also has the right to remove board vacancies from the website if we deem the information to be no longer accurate or the organisation ceases communication.
To ensure accuracy and consistency of information, if you wish to DELETE your Boardmatch Profile, please contact the Boardmatch Ireland team at hello@boardmatch.ie. If you wish to change your login details, please contact the Boardmatch Ireland team.
Should an individual wish to submit a Subject Access Request, they can do so in writing by post or email.
For further information on our Governance, GDPR, Policies & Procedures, please visit contact the Boardmatch Ireland team at hello@boardmatch.ie.