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Harris Hill is delighted to be supporting Camphill Devon to recruit six new trustees to its Board.
Camphill Devon is a long-established charity providing supported living, residential care and meaningful community for adults with learning disabilities. Set within a unique rural environment featuring multiple residential houses and a 100-acre working farm, Camphill Devon offers a blend of care, independence, therapeutic activity and community living.
The charity provides a vibrant and wholesome environment where people can enjoy the freedom of their rural surroundings, access craft, land and community activities, and play a part in the running of where they live. We are committed to providing the necessary support and facilities through which everyone can choose to live their life, their way.
Camphill Devon is looking for six new trustees to provide strategic and inspirational leadership to the charity. The charity is seeking applicants with experience and/or skills in the following areas:
- Care Committee – 2 Trustees . Candidates should have a background in adult social care, supported living, or learning disability services, with knowledge of CQC regulations, safeguarding frameworks, and care quality governance.
- Finance Committee – 2 Trustees (one of whom will Chair the Finance Committee). Candidates should have professional experience in finance, accountancy, or audit. At least one of the two should have demonstrable risk management expertise, including risk frameworks and internal controls.
- Workforce Committee – 1 Trustee . Candidates should have a background in HR, workforce planning, or organisational development, with experience in a regulated or care sector environment preferable.
- Estates Committee – 1 Trustee . Candidates should have professional expertise in estates management, facilities, construction, surveying, or asset management, with working knowledge of statutory health and safety compliance.
If you are inspired and excited by what Camphill Devon does, we’d love to hear from you.
Location:
Hapstead Village, Camphill Devon Community, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ11 0JN
Time commitment (Approx. 1 day per month):
- 5 days per year for Board meetings including 1 day which will be used for strategy planning. Trustees are encouraged to attend Board meetings in person at Camphill Devon.
- Half a day per month for committee meetings (per committee). Committee meetings will take place monthly initially and will be run remotely.
- Term of office: 3 years (subject to change following review).
Remuneration: This is a voluntary position & as such does not pay a salary. Reasonable expenses are reimbursed.
How to apply:
Please review the Recruitment Pack for further information about Camphill Devon, the trustee positions and for details on how to apply.
Closing date for applications: 9am, Friday 18 September 2026
Both Camphill Devon and Harris Hill operate an equal opportunity policy and commit to treating all of our candidates and jobseekers fairly. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
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Do you have a passion for helping grow support that transforms lives? Are you ready to use your skills to make a difference?
Join DFN and play a key role in growing the funding and partnerships that support our programmes in India.
Dignity Freedom Network (DFN) works in cities and in rural villages across India. We champion those society sidelines including those from low caste and tribal backgrounds. Could you help secure funding from grant makers for our education, health and protection programmes?
What will you be doing?
You will support DFN’s fundraising team by helping to identify new opportunities, strengthen relationships with supporters, and contribute to the development of funding opportunities that enable our work to grow.
This role will involve using your writing and research skills to support a range of activities, working closely with the team to help increase DFN’s fundraising capacity and impact. The role is remote, with regular opportunities to connect with the fundraising team and learn more about DFN’s work. You will need access to a computer and the internet.
What are we looking for?
Skills and experience
Essential
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Good research skills
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Excellent writing
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Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
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Organised, reliable, and able to manage multiple tasks.
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Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusive practice.
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Comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a small team.
Desirable
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Experience intrust and foundation fundraising and/or major donors
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Previousfundraisingexperience (paid or voluntary)
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Experienceofdevelopingfundraising resources
What difference will you make?
Your contribution will help DFN strengthen its fundraising approach and secure support for programmes that create opportunities and improve lives.
By sharing your skills and experience, you will help a growing charity expand its ability to deliver meaningful work with communities across India.
What are the Benefits for you?
- Experience in a small, entrepreneurial charity where your contribution has visible impact.
- Opportunities to develop or broaden your fundraising skills in a supportive environment.
- Informal training in fundraising skills
- A warm, values‑driven team committed to inclusion, learning, and positive change.
- References and recognition for your contribution to help you secure your first or next paid role
- An opportunity to make the world a better place!
- Working flexibly, tailored to your availability.
Dignity Freedom Network (DFN) is active across India. We work in large cities and in rural villages, with young children and new mums, with women who have experienced exploitation, and families facing discrimination and prejudice. We work to champion those society sidelines including those from low caste and tribal backgrounds.
Indian colleagues and volunteers deliver impactful education, health, protection and vocational skills programmes - the ladder needed by those we seek to help to overcome the barriers they face.
Please send a short cover letter of no more than one A4 page telling us why this opportunity interests you and what you hope to bring to it and gain from it. Please don't use AI to write this!
If you have a CV then please send this across, otherwise just a document listing some basic information about you - your education, work and/or volunteering history, skills and interests.
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