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Use your expertise to help shape the next chapter of a charity creating lasting change through housing, wellbeing support and grant-making.

About us

The Susanna Initiative, formerly Methodist Ministers' Housing Society, was founded in 1948. We steward our resources to meet need and unlock potential. Through housing, wellbeing support and grant-making, we act as a catalyst for change that leads to security, stability and flourishing. Our approach is captured in our strapline: 'Quiet Acts. Lasting Change.'

Our context

This is a time of significant change and opportunity. Changing patterns of need have prompted us to innovate and consider how best to fulfil our charitable purpose and use our resources for wider benefit.

Through Samuel Living, we provide good-quality housing on charitable terms and wellbeing support to retired Methodist ministers of limited means, and their spouses or partners, widows and widowers. Through Kezia Giving, our developing grant-making work currently supports organisations improving the lives and wellbeing of unpaid carers and those they care for. Alongside all of this, we are reshaping our investments, initially through the disposal of a market-rented property portfolio, with a view to building our financial resilience and giving us greater capacity to make a sustained difference for generations to come.

The role

We are seeking to appoint two trustees to join the Board of Trustees during this important period of transition and growth. Working alongside fellow trustees, the Chair and the CEO, you will help ensure excellent, proportionate governance and responsible stewardship. We practice governance that is purpose-led, rigorous and proportionate without becoming bureaucratic. We are clear about accountability, focused on the decisions that matter and respond agilely. With our identity still developing and new areas of work in their early stages, there is real scope to help shape our direction, culture and impact.

To complement the skills and experience already represented on the Board, we are interested in candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas: grant-making; technology, digital change and information governance; investment management and the unpaid care sector.

About you

You will have an active Christian faith, experience at executive, senior leadership or board level, sound judgement and a collaborative approach. You will be excited by the opportunity to help a values-led organisation translate substantial resources into quiet acts of lasting change.

The roles are unpaid, with reasonable expenses reimbursed. For full details, including the role specification and application process, please see the Trustee Role Pack. Closing date: 9 November.