Volunteer Lived Experience Board Member
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Various locations in South Wales
Ref: VBM-252
St Giles Trust is seeking passionate, committed individuals with lived experience of adversity to join our Volunteer Lived Experience Advisory Board. Your voice will help shape the future of our Inspire employability and skills programme, ensuring that our services reflect the realities, needs and strengths of the people we support
About Us
St Giles Trust is an award winning, national charity working to empower people facing adversity. We believe in second chances, equity, and the power of lived experience. Our work spans criminal justice, poverty, exploitation, and violence—supporting people to build better futures.
Central to our approach is the belief that people with lived experience should lead the design and development of the services that affect them.
Who We’re Looking For
We are keen to hear from individuals with experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Lived experience of adversity, disadvantage, or complex barriers
- Knowledge of barriers to employment, education and training
- Confidence reading, reviewing and providing constructive feedback on materials
- Basic IT skills (email, video calls, Word)
- A collaborative, flexible and empathic approach
We welcome applications from people of the global majority (Black, Brown, Multi-heritage), those who identify as disabled, neurodiverse, or who face social barriers. We value the empowering impact of diverse thought and lived experience.
What You’ll Do
As a Lived Experience Advisory Board Member, you will:
- Review Inspire’s training sessions, materials and resources
- Provide constructive feedback on strengths and areas for improvement
- Contribute to co-design, co-production and consultation activities
- Attend induction and mandatory training, including safeguarding and trauma-informed practice
- Participate in monthly supervision with the Engagement and Development Lead
- Champion St Giles’ values of inclusion, empathy, empowerment and clear communication.
You will help ensure our programmes remain relevant, accessible and shaped by those who know the challenges best. An Enhanced DBS check (Adult Workforce) is required for this role.
How to Apply
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
Please complete an application form and include a written statement (maximum 1,000 words) outlining how you meet the requirements in the Person Specification, addressing:
· Experience, knowledge and qualifications – give examples of your professional and/or voluntary experience, highlighting how you meet the criteria.
· Skills and abilities – explain the skills you bring to this role and how you have applied them in practice.
· Personal qualities and values – describe the personal attributes and values you would bring, including how you align with the values of St Giles.
Closing Date: 05 December 2025 at 9 a.m. Interviews: week commencing the 15th of December 2025
Registered Charity
501 - 1000
We help people held back by poverty, unemployment, the criminal justice system, homelessness, exploitation and abuse to build a positive future.
