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Fine Cell Work (FCW) is a UK-based rehabilitation charity and social enterprise. We are supported by an incredible team of prison volunteers who are the link between the charity and the stitchers we work with in prison. Our volunteers run fortnightly stitching groups in the prisons we work with to facilitate our stitchers’ production of high-quality needlework.
Our prison volunteers work in small teams to teach our stitchers’ embroidery and needlepoint, organise their group sessions, and liaise with the prison and FCW office.
What you will do as a prison volunteer:
- Teach people in prison how to stitch and support the completion of our premade kits in our cell groups, which consist of around 10-15 stitchers.
- Communicate with staff at our hub in Battersea to receive kits and supplies for your group and send back completed work for your stitchers to be paid.
- Encourage and help stitchers to complete our Open College Network certifications in creative needlework.
- Develop stitchers’ skills and confidence by encouraging them to take responsibility as peer mentors.
- Act as an ambassador for the charity and sharing our vision and values throughout your volunteering.
Who we are looking for:
- Skills in embroidery and/or needlepoint or a willingness to learn to stitch is essential for this role.
- Ideally some teaching experience or experience working with socially-excluded groups.
- Someone with a non-judgemental attitude and commitment to rehabilitation.
- Someone who is an excellent team worker.
- Someone who is good at observing personal boundaries.
Commitment: our stitching groups run for 2 hours every fortnight, so with travel time and some admin work after groups we ask prison volunteers to set aside a morning or afternoon every 2 weeks.
You must be over 18 for this role with the ability to travel to the prison. Travel expenses will be reimbursed by the charity.
Please take some time to read the role description to find out more details about the role and what we offer to our prison volunteers.
At Fine Cell Work, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented amongst FCW’s prison volunteers. This includes applicants from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, and male identifying applicants.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About the Trustee role
We have a detailed role description and person specification over the next few pages to
help you understand the requirements of the role.
The main purpose of our role:
As trustees at Back Up, we are volunteers with a specific legal responsibility to:
· Ensure our aims and objectives are being met
· Act in the best interest of the charity
· Manage responsibility for what we have (our people, our money etc)
· Act with reasonable care and skill
You can find more information from the charity commission.
What you will gain:
· An insight into how a charity runs, particularly how a charity board runs
· A new group of friends and colleagues
· A sense of pride when hearing about the difference our services make and that you
· A role in transforming lives affected by spinal cord injury.
· Confidence in building relationships with a wide range of people and speaking up at meetings
· An opportunity to develop your skills and experiences
· An opportunity to use your skills and experience to the benefit of the charity
Being a trustee is a voluntary role, therefore unpaid, but expenses including for travel are reimbursed.
You will receive a full induction to help you in the role at Back Up. In addition, where there is a training need, a range of training courses are on offer. You’ll need to commit time and energy to attend these, building up your knowledge so that you feel confident in the role. This often takes longer than you think, but we understand that – we were all new trustees once too.
Trustee Person Specification
Key Skills:
· Ability to support, motivate and inspire people to get involved
· Excellent communication skills in person, in writing and on the telephone
· Respect for others, for confidentiality and able to treat people equally
· Highly organised: able to manage multiple tasks, conflicting priorities, and responsive to deadlines
Qualifications and Experience:
Specific experience that would be useful to Back Up. You may have one or more of these:
· Accountancy
· Third Sector Knowledge
· Fundraising knowledge
· Personal experience of spinal cord injury
Personal Attributes:
· Integrity and honesty
· Proactive – seek out answers to your questions without a prompt
· A demonstrable commitment to Back Up's aims and values
· Honest, reliable, enthusiastic and conscientious
· Team player, flexible and adaptable
· Willingness to understand and hear about issues relating to spinal cord injury
Time Commitment:
· Currently, three and a half hourly board meetings four times a year, evenings in SW London
· One to two away-days per year
· Two-hour committee meetings (four times per year)
· Spending two to three hours prior to meetings, reading and absorbing information
· Reflecting and discussing by telephone
· Follow up to meetings – reading and commenting on minutes, carrying out any
· agreed actions
Requirements:
You must be…
· Over 18
· Not bankrupt
· Subject to satisfactory DBS check and references
· Not excluded by Companies House or Charity Commission
· Not bound by conflicts of interest that would be so significant as to undermine the role in general e.g. a member of a group that discriminates against people based on gender or ethnicity
Specific responsibilities
Role Description: Trustee
Reports to: Chair of Trustees
Accountable to: People affected by spinal cord injury, Charities Commission and Companies House
Summary:
The Board supports the vision and mission of the organisation. We ensure the delivery of the strategy, so that people affected by spinal cord injury can realise their full potential.
Vision and Mission
· To uphold the values of the charity, undertaking the duties of trusteeship in a way that adds to public confidence and trust in the charity
· Promoting and developing the charity in order for it to grow and maintain its relevance to society
· To support decisions that are in the best interest of service users, donors, volunteers and stakeholders at all times
· To take big decisions about the future
Compliance, quality and effectiveness
· Support development of policies that further the aims and objectives of Back Up and to monitor their success
· Ensure compliance with our memorandum and articles
· Ensure Back Up’s accountability and legal obligations
· Maintain sound financial management of the charity’s resources, ensuring expenditure is in line with the organisation’s objects and investment activities meet accepted standards and policies
· Ensuring resources are used in an efficient and cost-effective manner
· Maintain effective board performance
· Remain aware of the legal responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship and act in accordance with liabilities
· Manage/declare any personal conflicts of interest.
· Strive for best practice in governance, through proactive learning and Development
Next steps
You’ve read the pack, and you:
1. Feel inspired by the work of Back Up
2. Have read the role description and person specification and feel you could make a good trustee
So, it’s time to apply.
Please send your CV along with an accompanying letter of no more than two pages explaining your reasons for applying and how you meet the person specification to recruitment team email. Please use the subject line Back Up Trustee
The deadline for completing the application is midnight on Sunday 19th July 2026.
• All applications will be reviewed against the role description and person specification by a small team of trustees and the CEO by 21st July 2026.
• Everyone will be contacted by email or phone with regards to the success
Registered Charity
At Back Up, our vision is a world where everyone affected by spinal cord injury can reach their full potential.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Spectra is a Community Interest Company (CIC), working to improve the choices, health and well-being of structurally excluded communities across London, particularly in their sexual health, emotional resilience and wellbeing, and to combat isolation and minimise risk.
Under the guidance of its Chief Executive and Board of Directors, Spectra’s outstanding staff team provides supportive, knowledgeable, and non-judgmental services, all of which are peer-led, meaning people with lived and learned experience deliver them. Spectra strives to proactively identify the needs of all its service users and support them appropriately and effectively.
We are now seeking a suitably experienced and committed individual to join our Board as a Director of the CIC. You will join a Board of six other Directors.
If you are passionate about addressing health inequalities and share our mission to support and empower people, we would love to hear from you.
You will provide strategic direction for the organisation around Communications, marketing and PR. You will support our plans to increase our reach and brand, further our communications work and strategy, including social media marketing and campaigning, and enhance our PR opportunities. You will support Spectra’s delivery of statutory and grant-funded services; help us in advancing our vision and provide constructive scrutiny and oversight of the Chief Executive and the work of Spectra’s staff.
Spectra is based in Vauxhall, South London. It is expected that you will attend five meetings (in the evening, currently online on a Monday evening) and two SMT/Board Away Days each year (currently in person). In addition, it is envisaged that you will contribute your expertise outside of Board meetings on occasion, e.g. to review service or planning reports, to input into a focus group, etc.
