A trustee skills audit your board will actually finish
Each trustee has a short chat on their phone. The chair gets a one-page summary of skills, gaps and what to recruit for next.
The Governance Code asks for it
The Charity Governance Code, updated in November 2025, lists skills audits as evidence of an effective board.
Most boards know they should do one. The spreadsheet version stalls because trustees are busy, the form is dull, and someone has to chase. SkillDrill turns it into a short conversation each trustee can finish on their phone, and gives the chair a summary they can take straight to the next board meeting.
Recruit for next: fundraising, with digital as a second priority
Three steps, no chasing
No spreadsheet, no form, nothing for trustees to install.
Set up a trustee question set
Start from a trustee template or write your own. Cover the areas your board needs: finance, safeguarding, fundraising, digital, legal, lived experience.
Each trustee has a short chat on their phone
Share a link. Each trustee has a conversation of 10 to 15 minutes, whenever suits them. No login, no account, nothing to install.
The chair gets the board summary
One page: skills held across the board, gaps against what your charity needs, and a brief for the next trustee recruitment.
What the chair gets
A one-page summary built from what trustees actually said, not what they remembered to tick.
Skills held across the board
Who brings what, including the professional and lived experience that never made it on to the trustee register.
Gaps against your charity's needs
Where the board is thin, where it depends on one person, and where it is stronger than you thought.
A brief for the next recruitment
What to recruit for next, in plain words you can drop into a trustee advert or a nominations discussion.
Request a board audit
Tell us about your board and we will be in touch within one working day to set it up.
Questions chairs ask
Only the people in your charity you give access to. SkillDrill records and organises information. Every decision about a person is made by a person in your organisation, not by SkillDrill. Answers are encrypted at rest with a separate key for your organisation, and there is a full audit trail of who accessed what, and when.
Yes. Taking part is voluntary, and a trustee can end the conversation at any time. The AI stays within the scope of the question set you set up. It never scores or ranks people.
Your data is yours. Export it, or ask us to delete it, at any time. It is stored in the UK and never used to train AI models. If your charity leaves SkillDrill, live data is deleted within 30 days of account closure.
Full detail on data protection is on the Trust & Security page.