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CARIS Families (registered charity name CARIS Camden, charity number 1121919) is a small frontline charity that runs support services for homeless children and their parents living in temporary accommodation hostels in the London Boroughs of Camden and Hackney.
Families can find themselves homeless for many reasons. They may be displaced as part of the refugee resettlement process. They may be fleeing domestic violence or suffering the fallout of relationship breakdown. They may have simply found themselves priced out of the rental market and lost their home as a result. With affordable housing and social tenancies increasingly scarce, many children and their parents live in this state of limbo for years on end. The hostel, in effect, becomes the childhood home, making ‘temporary accommodation’ anything but temporary.
CARIS Families' frontline mission is twofold: to improve families' day-to-day experiences while in temporary accommodation and to assist them to move out of homelessness as soon as possible. We improve day-to-day experiences by providing hostel-based services for families that put back opportunities for children to thrive and that support parental wellbeing. At the same time, we casework with parents to progress their housing case so the family can move on into a settled home as soon as possible. In 2025 we supported 108 families and 146 children with play and learning opportunities, school holiday activities, family support work, poverty relief work and housing casework.
In addition to our frontline work, we contribute data and learned experience from our frontline work to academic research and political campaigning with the aim of bringing about reform of harmful temporary accommodation practises, and we support our families to share their lived experience.
Our turnover in 2024 was £238,555, with the majority of our income coming from trust and foundation grants, of which 4 are multi-year grants. We do not currently receive any statutory funding. Please find out more on the Charity Commission website at: CARIS CAMDEN - 1121919
Current context
We currently have a board of eight trustees and would like to increase the capacity of the board to match our growth, as we expand our hostel reach, family casework and public profile in the campaigns arena.
We have a Director, a staff team of six and a small cohort of volunteers who deliver our services within the family hostels and further afield. We have a broad support base with the significant impact and value of work recognised by our partners.
Roles
We have completed a Trustees skill audit and the following areas were identified as priority skills and expertise needed to support the development of our work:
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Individuals with lived experience of family temporary accommodation
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Children’s social workers
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Teachers or educationalists with an Early Years / KS1 interest, interested in educational inequality
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Academics with interest in sociology, urban geography and social inequality relating to housing rights and children’s life chances
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Housing and homelessness professionals
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Medical professionals with an interest in child and maternal health in light of social inequalities
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Corporate, HNW and legacy fundraising professionals
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IT and technology professionals with expertise in how we can better use technology to drive our work forward and increase impact using our collected data.
If you don’t quite match the above but feel you have significant skill or knowledge to contribute to our work we’d still love to hear from you.
Given the demographics of the families we support, we particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic individuals, from people with experience of migration, and from people with lived experience of temporary accommodation.
Expectations for Trustees
Trustees play a vital role in ensuring the charity is well‑governed, sustainable, and delivering meaningful impact. As a trustee, you will be expected to:
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Attend all Trustees meetings. Currently this consists of four meetings per annum, which generally alternate between online delivery and in-person in central London.
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Attend at least one session of delivery with our staff team each year.
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Proactively contribute your particular area/s of knowledge, expertise and insight to board discussions and strategic decision-making processes.
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Be willing to proactively engage in the development of CARIS Families on a three to five-year term.
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Undertake an Enhanced DBS check and online Safeguarding Training course, both organised and funded by CARIS Families.
While this is a voluntary role, travel expenses within Greater London can be covered to attend meetings and services.
Please get in touch if you have any questions about the role or your decision to apply, we’d welcome a discussion.
Potentially interested individuals will be invited to have an informal conversation with our Director, followed by a meeting with our Chair of Trustees, prior to suitable individuals being voted in.
Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about the role or whether to apply, we’d welcome a discussion prior to application.
When you're ready to apply, please send your CV and a cover letter outlining why you are interested in becoming a Trustee with us.
Potentially interested individuals will be invited to have an informal conversation with our Director, followed by a meeting with our Chair of Trustees, prior to suitable individuals being voted in.
Thank you!
PiP is seeking a trustee with diverse skills to deliver an ambitious five-year strategy, supporting adults with learning disabilities. Following significant growth over the last five years, we are now seeking to deepen our support offer, expand the number of people we directly support, and scope how we can influence systems change alongside people with learning disabilities.
Our trustees play a significant role in supporting, guiding, & governing our work. They share collective responsibility for governance, compliance and accountability, while also contributing their individual skills, perspectives and experience to board discussions and decision-making.
Our current Board is diverse in terms of gender, race, age, and experience and this is a strength that we're keen to retain. So, if you're a first-time trustee, have a non-typical background, or have access needs, please do especially consider reaching out to discuss the role with our CEO.
Below outlines the broad criteria that PiP desires from the person who fills this post. We expect that the individual appointed may not meet all the criteria below, and that experience, skills, and understanding of our work may come from many areas including voluntary or lived/caring experience.
As Trustee your primary responsibilities will include:
- Ensure our charity is carrying out its purposes for the public benefit
- Comply with our charity’s governing document and the law
- Act in our charity’s best interests
- Ensure our charity is accountable
- Manage our charity’s resources responsibly
- Act with reasonable care and skill
We’re looking for someone with the following skills & experience:
- Experience in one or more of social care, legal, governance, finance, post-16 education, local knowledge, commercial, or lived experience.
- Good communication skills with the ability to inform and engage a wide range of audiences
- An understanding of the importance of PiP’s work and our person-centred approach to addressing inequalities for adults with learning disabilities
- A willingness to commit time and effort to the development of PIP
- The ability to engage comfortably at all levels
- A commitment to PiP’s values
There are six Board meetings each year, typically held on weekday evenings between 5.00 pm and 7.00 pm. Trustees may like to participate in committees or working groups. The role is voluntary and unpaid, but reasonable expenses, such as travel and caring responsibilities, will be reimbursed.
Further information about PiP and the trustee role is available in the attached Trustee Candidate Pack.
For an informal conversation and to arrange a visit, please contact Denise Largin (CEO). Formal applications must include your CV and a covering letter outlining your interests in the role and why you think you will be a good fit for PIP.
Application should be emailed to the CEO by Friday, 27th February. Interviews will take place in the beginning of March.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
Empowering adults with learning disabilities to achieve their ambitions.
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Thank you!
Do you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of children and families? Spurgeons is seeking new trustees to join our current Board in bringing prayerful wisdom and strategic guidance over the coming years.
Spurgeons is one of the UK’s leading children’s charities, supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged children and their families for 150 years. Inspired by Christian faith and our founder Charles Spurgeon, we’re here for all families. Together, we create family hubs where we’re needed most, with counselling, early years and family support. We partner with local councils, churches and communities to care for every family, putting children and young people first in everything we do. Our services also include parenting support and resources, mental health support for children and young people, and working with families affected by domestic abuse and imprisonment.
These services are needed more than ever, and our current strategy focuses on growth, innovating in partnership with churches, developing online family hubs to expand our reach and ensuring fundraising is a strategic priority. We are ambitious and hopeful about how we can grow to make a significant impact on many more children’s lives in the future.
To support Board succession planning, we are seeking to appoint five new trustees with a range of skills and experience including:
· Fundraising and marketing
· Finance
· Children’s services e.g. senior leadership experience within social services, the care sector, local authorities, health, education, or charitable contexts
· Safeguarding
· Cultural change and transformation
Given an occupational requirement for these roles to be filled by Christians, we are seeking candidates with a personal and active Christian faith who are comfortable and aligned with the statement of faith outlined on our website.
In order to build on our Baptist heritage, we are also keen to ensure that at least one of our trustees is a member of, or has a connection with, the Baptist church.
Spurgeons values diversity, promotes inclusion, and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates, including those with lived experience of children’s support services. We recognise the need to increase the diversity of the Board, for example in terms of age, ethnicity, disability, gender and LGBTQ+ representation.
In terms of location, at present, Board meetings take place in London and committee meetings take place virtually via Teams.
For further information, including full details of how to apply, please see our Appointment Details Pack which can be downloaded from the application resources/ supporting documents section below. Application is by submission of CV and cover letter via email to Laura Bagley at Macaulay Search (please see Appointment Details Pack for contact details).
The closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 2nd March 2026.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
We create family hubs where we’re needed most, so, when a family member needs support, turn to us.
