How We Work

Our Jobs

The Management Committee has a lot of responsibility for making sure People & Planet is fulfilling its aims: it approves P&P’s accounts and annual budgets, appoints the Director, and comments on and approves staff plans, ensuring that the office is working on the best projects to support your campaigning.

It’s also involved democratically with the network: its student members are elected every year to represent the student network on the Management Committee, and it works to be open with the network about the work it’s doing — both keeping the network informed about the decisions being made and providing spaces for the network to be involved in decision-making.

Our Membership

The Management Committee is made up of democratically elected student members and also non-student members drawn from other organisations such as Oxfam, Friends of the Earth or ActionAid, who are chosen for their areas of expertise. The elected student members always make up more than half of the Management Committee, and MC meetings are chaired by the student members in rotation. You can find out about the current membership at the Management Committee home page.

Our Processes

The Management Committee currently meets four times a year, and all members try to attend. Office staff are also invited along to meetings in an advisory capacity when needed — P&P’s Director always attends as well. You can find summaries of our meetings and important information about what we’re discussing on the Meetings, Minutes, Papers page.

Our processes are guided by the MC Charter, a document which outlines how we work. You can read the latest version here: ManagementCommitteeCharterApproved28thMarch2009.pdf