Trustees Volunteer Roles
Home-Start is a voluntary organisation in which volunteers offer regular support, befriending and practical help to families with young children who are under stress in their own homes, helping to prevent family crisis or breakdown. Trustees collectively oversee the work of the organisation and are legally responsible for all aspects of its operations.
Within the Board, individual Trustees have specific roles that enable them to use their individual skills and experience to lead in particular activities. Each role has specific responsibilities that a Trustee will lead on to enable the Board as a whole to operate more effectively.
Home-Start Barnet (HSB) Trustees give a high level of commitment and reliability in their roles and work very closely with the staff team to enable HSB to deliver a high quality and well-respected service. Trustees are empowered to make well informed decisions through training and reporting systems.
What do Home-Start Trustees do?
Trustees work collectively, to hold HSB in trust for current and future beneficiaries by:
- Attending quarterly Board meetings and any additional sub-committee meetings to keep informed and plan an active role in decision making for Home-Start Barnet
- Providing leadership and direction for the charity within the ethos and values of HSB
- Ensuring that the charity has a clear mission and strategic direction and is focused on achieving these
- Being responsible for the effective performance and management of the charity
- Ensuring that the charity complies with all legal and regulatory requirements, the objects of the charity, the governing documents including the Home-Start Standards and Methods of Practice and the Agreement and quality standards
- Acting as guardians of the charity’s assets
- Ensuring that the charity’s governance is of the highest possible standard
- Undertaking an ambassadorial role for Home-Start
- Attending ongoing support and training sessions as necessary to enable them to fulfil the requirements of the role
What are the responsibilities of a Home-Start Trustee?
Home-Start asks all Trustees to commit to the Home-Start ethos and to understand and implement relevant Home-Start’s policies which will be explained at the Trustee induction.
Trustees work collectively to:
- Set the strategy and undertake the strategic management of the charity
- Ensure that the charity pursues its objects as defined in the governing documents
- Ensure the charity accounts for its activities to its funders, the relevant Charity Regulators, its members, the local community and others
- Ensure that the charity applies its resources exclusively in pursuance of its objects
- Ensure the financial stability of the charity
- Ensure proper accounting records are kept
- Ensure the proper investment of the charity’s funds
- Ensure that the major risks to which the charity is exposed are reviewed annually and managed
- Ensure the organisation has appropriate risk assessment procedures in place and appropriately mitigates against perceived risks
- Ensure the effective and efficient administration of the charity
- Approve the charity’s policies
- Ensure the charity fulfils its responsibilities as a good employer and is an effective manager and supervisor of staff and volunteers
- Ensure the charity is appropriately insured
- Protect and manage the property of the charity
- Monitor and evaluate the work of the charity and to contribute to quality assurance self-assessments and reviews
- Safeguard the good name and ethos of Home-Start Barnet
What Duties are involved in being a Trustee?
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Scrutinising board papers in advance of meetings
- Approving the strategic plan annually and monitoring progress against it
- Determining and approving the annual budget and monitoring progress against it
- Preparing and approving the annual report and accounts
- Ensuring compliance with the Home-Start Agreement and Quality Assurance system
- Acting within the spirit and in accordance with Home-Start’s equality of opportunity and diversity policies and procedures
- Signing acceptance and understanding of the Home-Start Safeguarding/Child Protection Code of Conduct annually
Individually to:
- Regularly attend Board meetings at our Finchley-based office
- Play an active part in the trustees’ meetings and deliberations
- Exercising due care and attention and using reasonable skill in dealing with the charity’s affairs
- Use own skills, knowledge and experience to help the trustees reach sound decisions
- Avoid any conflict of interests and declare areas where they may arise
- Reflect annually on the board’s performance and your own performance as a trustee
- Take part in Quality Assurance self-assessments and reviews
- Ensure that major decisions and policies are made by trustees acting collectively
- work within the organisations policies and procedures
What is the time commitment?
- Attendance of quarterly Board meetings held at HSB offices
- Attendance of any sub-committee meetings for any additional work taken on
- Attendance of training when required
- Work at home to deliver the requirements of the role (estimate 2-3 hours a month)
What will Home-Start do for me?
In return for your hard work and commitment, you will receive:
- Excellent preparation for your role, through the induction programme course
- Information required for you to fulfil the role appropriately
- Opportunities for self-development and ongoing training
- Social events and the opportunity to get more involved in the charity if you would like (e.g., fundraising, promotional events)
- The opportunity to be involved in a vital local service and to be part of a national and global network
This is exciting and rewarding work which requires energy, commitment, reliability, creativity and a sense of humour.
Please note that this a mostly remote role, however you will be required to attend quarterly board meetings and regular commiteee meetings at our Finchley-based office and also be available for some other annual events such as our AGM and Family Christmas Event.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Citizens Advice Exeter and Citizens Advice Torbay are separate and independent charities, with separate Boards of Trustees. For efficiency reasons we share senior staff and have many shared administration functions. We are both looking for new Trustees.
The advice and assistance we give to people helps them to resolve their problems, providing life-changing outcomes. We also work hard both locally and nationally to use the knowledge we get from our clients to influence policy makers and legislation.
Do you want to join an organisation that:
¨ Wants to help the community and change things for the better?
¨ Wants to make sure everyone gets the advice and support they need?
¨ Is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality?
If so:
¨ Do you have the appropriate skills, and the time?
¨ Do you want to get involved in running influential and important local charities?
Both Charities are currently looking to recruit at least two Trustees
Citizens Advice Exeter is also looking to recruit:
- A Vice-Chair Resources to, initially, chair the Resources Committee with a view to becoming the Chair in the next 12 months on the retirement of our current Chair, who has been in post for 20 years.
Citizens Advice Torbay is also looking to recruit:
· A new Treasurer to replace the existing incumbent, who leaves at the end of May 2024, who has been in post for 3 years.
People from all backgrounds are welcome to apply. We actively encourage applicants from minority groups.
Both charities would prefer applicants to be resident close to the EX postcode (for Exeter) and TQ postcode (for Torbay), or to have a good awareness of the local social issues.
You must be able to attend at least eight evening meetings a year (CA Exeter), or at least six meetings a year (CA Torbay). You will need to undertake appropriate training, to keep yourself briefed on current issues, and to think strategically to help drive the Charities to achieve their long-term objectives.
In return, you will benefit by
· Joining a family of paid staff, volunteers and fellow trustees who all work together to provide an excellent quality of service to our clients
· The pleasure of using your skills and experience to help others
· developing new skills and learning from your fellow trustees
· gaining the satisfaction of giving back to your community.
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We are seeking a new trustee to join our Board. This opportunity has arisen at an exciting time in our journey at St Helena. We have recently agreed a new 10-year vision and strategic direction. However, to achieve our vision we need to find a way through a perfect storm of spiraling costs and increased demand, at the same time as income from traditional fundraising methods is diminishing and inflationary pressures are increasing. To help with income we have set up a subsidiary trading arm to manage our growing range of commercial activities. Already the lead organisation for palliative and end of life care in our area, we want to extend our reach and services to also become a key provider of complex frailty and dementia care. We are exploring moving to a new site and taking the opportunity that presents to develop business cases for new ventures that could be co-located with existing services. We operate two very successful B2B lottery partnerships delivering lotteries for other hospices and charities across the country. We have recently launched a new home care service in partnership with a national franchisor. We have a growing retail arm, with an increasing online presence. We also have a well-established and successful fundraising operation. We want to build on this success and diversify even further. You will be joining a welcoming, motivated, and supportive Board of Trustees, and you will find us a friendly and caring organisation to work with. We are keen to hear from you if you would like to be a Trustee. Previous experience in a management or leadership role and of working at Board level would be an advantage. Ideally, we are looking for someone who is motivated by our social purpose, and who will help us develop and implement new ways of delivering care and support that improve
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Join us as a trustee and help to change the lives of disabled and seriously ill children.
The role
We are looking to appoint an exceptional individual who will bring passion and commitment, as well as skills and experience to our Board. Trustees play an active role in governing the charity and are responsible for setting vision and strategic priorities, as well as ensuring the charity complies with legal, charitable and financial requirements.
This is a fantastic opportunity to develop skills and experience, while at the same time, giving back to a nationwide charity that makes a real practical difference to the lives of families every day.
We are seeking to appoint a qualified accountant to our Board and to our Finance, Audit and Risk Committee, to strengthen the already established Committee with further knowledge and experience, to ensure that the Committee can maintain its obligations around objectivity and provide suitable challenge and support to the Group.
The person
We welcome candidates of any background who have the required skills and experience to be a trustee. We would like to particularly encourage those with disabilities or long-term conditions or who are parents or carers of children and young adults with disabilities or serious illnesses to apply, to bring fresh perspectives through lived experience.
More About Family Fund
Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity providing grants for families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people. Our new five-year strategy, ‘Being there for Families 2023 – 2028’ was launched last year, the year in which we celebrated our 50th anniversary. It is ambitious and innovative but also retains the focus on practical financial support that families continue to need and expect from us. Through our grant making and services, we work hard to make life easier for families, making a practical difference to a family’s well-being, their opportunities, and the lives of their children and young people.
Family Fund is committed to inclusion, equity and diversity, and we welcome applications from all parts of the community. We are a Disability Confident Employer and all disabled applicants who meet the requirements for the role will be invited for interview. If you have a disability, and are happy to let us know, please highlight this in your covering letter.
For further information about Family Fund and the full role description, please read the full candidate information pack.
Please apply via our website.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 7 April 2024.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We’re looking to recruit volunteers to join our existing multidisciplinary management committee. Do you have experience in any of the following areas and want to help make a difference:
- Lived experience
- Academics
- Corporate
- Psychology
- Psychiatry
- Counselling
- Social work
- Mental health nursing
- Occupational therapy
Yes? We’d like to hear from you.
Overview of committee:
knus Multidisciplinary Management Committee (MDMC)
The committee will be responsible for directing the activities of knus, ensuring growth and efficiency and achieving the objectives for which it was set up.
The committee will:
- Set the strategic direction to guide and direct the activities of knus - ensuring growth and positive impact;
- Ensure the effective management of knus and it’s activities; and
- Monitor the activities of knus to ensure they are in keeping with the founding principles, objectives and values
The team will be multidisciplinary incorporating volunteer committee members from all backgrounds. For example, those with lived experience, academics, corporate, psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, social workers, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, etc.
The committee members can bring in their own ideas and wealth of experience to shape the way knus moves forward.
Please note - all successful volunteers are required to pay the cost price of £20.60 for an Enhanced DBS check. If you've got a current Enhanced DBS on the update service, this cost will not apply.
You must be a UK resident to apply for this role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Does the thought of joining the board of a young, dynamic, impactful and independent UK charity working to influence the food policy get you excited?
The Food Foundation is a small but feisty CHARITY that was set up to address the growing food poverty in this country – and we mean poverty not just in terms of quantity of food but quality – healthy diets.
We research, campaign, advocate and work with all parts of the food system to address the key challenges that we have identified:
- children are arriving at school overweight and malnourished at the same time.
- families are struggling to feed their children.
- the food system is not serving society well and that policy is still ignoring its responsibilities to ensure that we have a healthy population.
Come Join us and make the difference to the nation’s food system.
See our recruitment pack on our website for more information on how you can get involved…
Deadline to apply: Monday 8th April 2024, 9AM.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Do you want to help us improve the lives of parents and young children in Wokingham?
You could be a trustee for Home-Start Wokingham District, a local charity that gives every child the best possible start in life.
Set up in 1996, we offer “a lifeline”, a free family support service to families with at least one child under the age of five; we cover the whole of Wokingham district, which is a population growth area. Associated with Home-Start UK (which nationally has some 13,500 home-visiting volunteers supporting over 27,000 families and 56,000 children to transform their lives), we are a local and independent charity governed by our trustees.
We support about 100 families in Wokingham district each year but like many charities, the cost-of-living crisis has affected our organisation as much as it has impacted upon those families. Our income in 2022/23 was grown back to £140k and our trustees are developing a strategic plan for the next five years.
The role and what we are looking for in a new trustee
Trustees are the people who make the top-level decisions for our charity. Our Board includes people with experience and skills in early years, education and business. We’d expect new trustees to have empathy with our cause and our beneficiaries; we’d also appreciate any experience, skills and ideas in fund-raising, finance, law or digital that might bring to us.
You don’t necessarily need prior experience of charity trusteeship, as support from local charity-support organisations is always available. Full induction to our organisation will be provided, plus specialist support as a new trustee, including access to external training.
If you can think strategically and plan long-term, you have the primary skills needed by our trustees; you’ll also need to be able to work collectively with other Board members. Support from our paid employees is always available, as they will be dealing with the day-to-day running of the organisation.
We are a charity not a business, but we apply business principles to governing our organisation. We are looking for people from a variety of backgrounds to join our charity. We want to expand the diversity of our board, in all meanings of the word, and strongly welcome applications from people from less-represented groups.
We ask for about six hours of your time per month, which includes all meetings, discussions, etc., many of which are held online. Obviously, you’ll need access to digital communications, as much of our charity’s business is run that way.
How to apply
This appointment is being managed for us by inVOLve Community Services, a charity-support organisation, who offer a no-obligation discussion by phone or video. A detailed Role Description and Skills Specification can be made available to you upon request.
Trustee appointments are subject to satisfactory references, to completion of an online Safeguarding course and an Enhanced DBS check.
Your CV or similar will be read by our existing trustees, and an online interview offered as soon as mutually convenient.
I need to know more
Contact Mike Allen via Quick Apply below for more information and arrange to have a no-obligation initial informal discussion (Teams/Zoom/phone)
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The Joshua Tree is looking for new Trustees!
To help The Joshua Tree continue to support families going through the most unimaginable times we need new people to join the Trustee board. We are looking to further strengthen our existing Trustee team with people who have the passion and vision to contribute in a holistic way but with a particular emphasis and skill set in Counselling (including safeguarding)
This is an exciting time to join our charity as we further develop our services and proposition. As a Trustee your contribution to the board and charity will help us succeed in our growth, whilst continuing to ensure our beneficiary families remain at the heart of everything we do.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to all those who we support.
For more information, see our website
For an informal discussion about the role please contact our CEO, Richard Driffield
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Overall Purpose of Role
- To ensure on behalf of the Board that Plateful Cafe’s assets are properly managed, only used for approved purposes, and applied as effectively as possible
- Jointly oversee the financial affairs of the organisation and ensure they are legal, constitutional and within accepted accounting practice
Main Responsibilities
- Share the responsibility of jointly reporting the financial position (balance sheet, cash flow, fundraising performance etc).
- Jointly oversee the production of necessary financial reports/returns, accounts and audits and the production of an annual budget and propose its adoption at the last meeting of the previous financial year.
- To ensure jointly that proper accounts and records are kept and that Plateful Cafe meets its legal obligations in respect of its financial affairs and financial reporting
- To ensure jointly that Plateful Cafe’s financial resources are spent in line with good governance and legal and regulatory requirements
- To be jointly instrumental in the development and implementation of Plateful Cafe's financial policies
- To jointly supervise and assist Finance assistants
Main Tasks
- Liaising with the appropriate member(s) of volunteers responsible for Plateful Cafe’s
financial activities and financial record-keeping
- Make members aware of their financial obligations and take a lead in interpreting
financial data to them.
- Monitoring that financial systems and controls are in place and adhered to
- Assist the fundraising team and team with Funding applications with the finance
questions
- Assist with preparing budgets and other financial information for funding bids
- Assist volunteers with the preparation of financial reports for funders
- Acting as a financial spokesperson for Plateful Cafe as appropriate
- Ensure proper records are kept and that effective financial procedures and controls
are in place, ie:
- Cheque signatories
- Purchasing limits
- Purchasing systems
- Petty cash/ float
- Others as appropriate
- Appraising the financial viability of plans, proposals and feasibility studies.
- Lead on appointing and liaising with auditors/an independent examiner.
- Undertake bookkeeping duties and/or oversee the finance volunteer ensuring posting
and bookkeeping is kept up-to-date.
- Maintain the petty cash system and regularly process petty cash claims.
- Regularly carry out reconciliations/ oversee regular reconciliations by the finance
volunteer.
- Arrange payments to creditors as appropriate and arrange appropriate signatures on
payments.
- Make the necessary arrangements to collect payments from debtors and bank
payments promptly.
Qualities
Knowledge and experience of current and fundraising finance practice relevant to
voluntary and community organisations.
Knowledge of bookkeeping and financial management (as necessary).
Good financial analysis skills.
Ability to communicate clearly
Previous usage of Free Agent system preferable
Attention to details
Preferable previous experience on payroll
Experience on preparing budget
We are looking to recruit a new Trustee to help support the growth of The Children's Hospital Charity, ensuring we deliver significant income for Sheffield Children’s, to improve children and young people’s lives.
Trustee - The Children's Hospital Charity
Role title: Trustee
Responsible to: Chair of the Trustee Board
Remuneration: Like most Trustee roles, this role is unremunerated.
Hours: Approximately 10 hours per quarter
At The Children’s Hospital Charity we come together as one team making a difference to a cause we care passionately about. We're a Charity proud to connect families, patients, businesses, organisations and communities together with exciting projects at Sheffield Children's.
After ten years of outstanding service, John Warner will soon complete his term as a Trustee. We are now seeking to appoint a new Trustee with similar experience to John in finance and business management.
The successful applicant will become a member of our Finance and Investment Committee, and following a handover period, chair this important committee. In your wider responsibilities as a Trustee, you will also help oversee the Charity's long-term strategy, as well as contributing to, and supporting, the overall management of the Charity.
Further information
Click on 'Apply via website' to be taken to our website where you can download the recruitment pack, which contains further information on this role, and information on how to apply.
Deadline: Friday 12th April 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
TRUSTEES REQUIRED!
At TOP UK we know how distressing and overwhelming OCD and phobias can be. Nearly 40 years of experience tells us that both conditions have a hugely negative impact on people’s lives. Fear and anxiety are incredibly unpleasant emotions and to frequently experience these emotions on a large scale is traumatic and debilitating. No one deserves that.
At TOP UK we also know that OCD and phobias are poorly understood, under-funded and stigmatised despite affecting millions of people. OCD and phobia sufferers often tell us how misunderstanding of their conditions leaves them feeling isolated, alone and afraid to seek help. At TOP UK, we believe no one should feel alone in facing their fears
It is an exciting but testing time at TOP UK and we have just launched an ambitious three-year strategy. While we are eager to embark on this new stage of development for our organisation it comes with an acknowledgment that we are working in particularly uncertain and stressful times and there is a greater need to grow our service than ever before. Demand for our service is at an all-time high and continues to grow, currently dramatically outstripping our capacity. Mental health services are at breaking point leaving those with OCD and Phobias often finding it impossible to find help and dealing with debilitating conditions alone.
Meeting this demand will be a challenge, but it is a challenge we are ready and willing to push for but in order to grow and build our organisation we are keen to evolve, enhance and diversify our Board of Trustees
The role is open to those from the public, private and voluntary sectors. You should be someone with a genuine interest in mental health and we are ideally looking for individuals with any of the following experience: Charity Governance; IT & Digital;Marketing, Communications and Brand; Fundraising: Diversity and Inclusion.
TOP UK also particularly welcomes applications from black and minority ethnic candidates and candidates from the LGBTQ+ community as they are currently under represented in our organisation.
All board meetings are virtual and take place every other month.
For further details please click on the attached Trustee Application pack below. Application is by letter and CV, please click on the apply button to submit these.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Could you help to create a future where all children enjoy, explore and shape the world through STEM?
Cambridge Science Centre (CSC), an independent Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education charity, is devoted to inspiring young people with hands-on learning and helping foster a lifelong love of STEM.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about STEM education and in helping us reach underprivileged communities. Someone who is willing and excited to learn what it means to be a Trustee, and to work within our team.
Our current Board is especially keen to hear the voices and opinions of younger people. Therefore, we are recruiting for a Young Trustee (age 18-30) to join our Board.
You do not have to have prior experience as a Trustee – we will provide training and ongoing mentoring until you are confident in the role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We are partnering with the Social Interest Group (‘SIG’) to appoint new Trustees to join their board. SIG brings charities together to work under one umbrella focusing on delivering good quality social and health care services. They support people who are in the criminal justice system, stepping down from hospital recovering from mental ill health and those moving away from periods of homelessness, recovering from substance and alcohol issues.
Their Mission is to create powerful partnerships and solutions that bridge the gaps in local health and social care so people can live happy, healthy, productive and fulfilled lives.
SIG (the parent company), their subsidiaries SIG Penrose, SIG Housing Trust, SIG Equinox, SIG Pathways to Independence and SIG Safe Ground, work to tackle social and health care inequalities and fill gaps in service provision in order to ensure that people in our society have every opportunity to live fulfilled, healthy and constructive lives.
Through their values they are committed to:
- Delivering excellence and innovation
- Promoting equality and mutual respect
- A belief that positive change is possible
- Involving and consulting service users
- Active citizenship and community involvement
- Valuing staff, harnessing their full potential
They are keen to have an inclusive board, therefore backgrounds and experience is less important as the need for the passion, ambition and interest to help SIG fulfil its mission is the primary requirement.
As mentioned, your background is less important but if you are in IT, Public Relations & Marketing, Operations, (maybe you have or are a COO) engaged in the medical profession with an emphasis on mental health, a service user or carer is of interest to the current board.
The successful candidates will demonstrate:
- A clear commitment to the mission and values of the Group
- The capacity to participate actively and from an informed position.
- A willingness to use personal networks and resources of relevance to their charitable purpose.
- A passion for their work, and to promoting SIG and its subsidiaries as an organisation.
- A firm understanding and respect for the Nolan Principles of Public Life
Meetings are held in the evening at their head office in the Angel/Highbury & Islington area or virtually; there are 4 meetings plus one ‘away day’ each year. The total time commitment is in the region of four hours per month.
For more information, please contact Sandra Smith, Associate Director, Charisma Charity Recruitment. Applications should be submitted through the Charisma website and include your CV and supporting statement.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or other category protected by law.
Closing date for applications: 6 May 2024
Interviews: TBC
The Chester Bluecoat Charity, the longest standing charity in Chester, is currently searching for inspirational individuals to join our board as a volunteer trustee to help steer the charity as it strives to raise the bar on the positive impact it has in the city and surrounding areas.
Under new leadership, 2024 is set to be a particularly exciting year as we develop and implement a new strategy to support more people than ever before and help the charity reach its full potential. In order to achieve this, we are recruiting new trustees who can help drive this transformation by bringing additional expertise to our dedicated team, specifically in the charity, community, social housing and legal sectors.
About the Charity
The Chester Bluecoat Charity helps to tackle the causes of poverty, disadvantage, and inequality across the city. As the city’s longest standing charity, we are proud to have been helping the people of Chester and surrounding areas for more than 800 years.
Based in the historic Bluecoat Building, in the heart of the City of Chester, we work to change the lives of people in need in three distinct ways:
- Grant Giving – We award grants to organisations that use education and community development to improve peoples’ lives.
- Rentable office and meeting room space at our Bluecoat Building – We offer third sector office space to local charities and voluntary organisations, as well as meeting rooms for hire to businesses throughout the city.
- Almshouses – We provide Almshouse accommodation for people in need in the 16 Almshouses that we own and maintain which are situated at rear of the Bluecoat Building.
At its core, the charity owns several properties in Chester which enables us to generate a rental income, and subsequently provide Almshouse accommodation and office space to Third Sector organisations. These funds also allow the charity to provide grants and support to organisations such as Blacon Beacon, Koala, KidsBank and Platform for Life, to name but a few…
Why should you become a trustee?
Are you passionate about Chester? Do you want to make a real difference in the lives of those in our community who need our help? Do you want to be part of a team trying to do some good by making lasting change?
By becoming a trustee of The Chester Bluecoat Charity, you can do just that! In this role, you can shape and steer the city’s oldest charity and help it reach its full potential. This is an opportunity for you to give back to the city of Chester in a meaningful, rewarding role, whilst making new connections during an exciting time of transformational change in the charity.
What skills should I have?
The Chester Bluecoat Charity are looking for trustees with the following skills in particular:
- Charity and community experience.
- Social housing/housing association experience (Almshouses)
- Legal
In addition, trustees should be able to offer:
- Great communication skills
- Be able to contribute to strategic planning
- Independent, sound judgement
- Willingness to provide opinion and reasons for the conclusions drawn
- Ability to think creatively and problem solve
- Capable of working effectively as a member of a team
As we are focused on Chester and its’ surrounds, we expect our trustees to either be resident in Chester or have strong links with the city.
How will I make a difference?
As part of our trustee board, you will shape the work of The Chester Bluecoat Charity and provide support to the team to achieve our charitable aims. You will be part a charity that tackles the causes of poverty, inequality, and disadvantage in and around Chester by using our resources effectively to provide grants to other organisations and charities, amongst other work.
Our trustees dedicate around 5-10 hours a month to The Chester Bluecoat Charity by attending internal meetings and assisting the team in delivering our strategy.
When would I participate in trustee meetings?
The main board meet 6 times a year. Trustees are appointed for an initial term of three years, with the possibility of two further terms.
Trustee meetings are usually held at The Bluecoat on Upper Northgate Street, Chester, however these may also be joined virtually.
Non-Member Trustee / Lay Trustee
We are looking for a non-member trustee to serve as a vital representative of the broader public within the UKKA governance structure. This role contributes diverse perspectives, ensures transparency, and fosters accountability in decision-making processes.
The person:
• Civic-minded
• Strategic and analytical thinking
• Communication skills
• Ethical integrity
While the non-member trustee may not possess specific knowledge or expertise in kidney care, their unique perspective and community-orientated approach will enrich the diversity of thought within the board of trustees and contribute to the association's overall success.
Time commitment: The non-member trustee will be expected to dedicate a certain amount of time each month to attend the Trustee Board Meetings (circa 3 online and 1 face to face meetings per year, plus monthly online meetings), attend or chair/co-chair other (sub) committee meetings, review materials, participate in discussions, and engage in association-related activities as necessary.
Term of office: Three years, with the possibility of extension by mutual agreement
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
As we embark on a period of growth and programme development, Power of Polo is looking to appoint two new trustees to our board. We are seeking highly motivated and passionate people to join a team dedicated to shaping the future of Power of Polo and being instrumental in guiding the charity at this time of critical development.
Being a trustee for Power of Polo is not merely a title; it is an opportunity to be at the forefront of making decisions that will directly impact the lives of people facing social, economic or health challenges. Our strapline if ‘change your line’, a polo term we have embraced to refer to how being part of our programmes has supported people to change the direct of their lives.
We have social mobility and equality of opportunities at the core of our mission, values and programmes. The Board of Trustees play an essential role in guiding strategic direction, ensuring financial sustainability and governance, and upholding our mission and championing us both within the polo world, and also within the sport for change sector.
Trustees are encouraged to utilise and develop their own unique skills and experience. As the charity progresses, there will be opportunity for you as a trustee to develop areas you feel would support towards Power of Polo’s mission to use polo as a sport for change.
Your commitment
As a minimum, Trustees are required to prepare for and attend three Board meetings a year. These are two-three hours long and are a variety of in-person, hybrid, and remote discussions.
We are in search of individuals who bring a diverse range of experiences, perspectives, and skills. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who have experience or skills in the areas of equine activities, sport for change and social mobility.
We would be keen to hear from applicants with one or more of the following skills and experience:
·Working knowledge of the charity sector or commercial sector.
·Experience within the equine sector, either personally or professionally.
·Ability to develop good relationships with colleagues on the Board, the wider staff team, and with current and future partnerships.
·Ability to develop and utilise networks and contacts to support the development of the charity.
·A strategic thinker.
·Ability to motivate and inspire others.
·An understanding of grassroots sport participation or the environment in which Power of Polo operates would be advantageous.
Remuneration
Trustees give their services on a voluntary basis and receive no remuneration. We do however offer reimbursement of reasonable travel and subsistence expenses. We hope that you would also join us annually at our event at Guards Polo Club.
If you believe in our vision and are willing to dedicate your expertise and time to further our cause, we warmly invite you to consider this opportunity.
We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and promotes an inclusive culture in all aspects of our work. We welcome applications from all who have the skills and experience to support the work of Power of Polo.
Please visit our website or Yout Tube page @powerofpolo to learn more about is and our work so far.
If you are interested in the role of trustee, please send an up-to-date CV and a short statement (500 words maximum) of your motivation to join the Board of Trustees and the value you would bring to this position.
Please send these to: Lucy Wilson
Closing date: Sunday 15th April 2024
Our CEO/Founder Dr Katy Hayward would be happy to have an informal conversation with anyone interested in the position. To arrange this, please contact us.
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