Legal Trustee Vacancy – About the role

Our trustees are the people that have overall oversight of the charity.  They are not involved in running the charity on a day-to-day basis as we have a team of staff and volunteers that do this. However, our Board of Trustees collectively makes decisions about the approach that Foothold will take and its future direction.

They make sure that, as an organisation, we have the policies and procedures we need to ensure we’re complying with our legal obligations. They provide support, ideas and constructive challenge to our staff team to test our thinking and help Foothold to achieve the best it can for our service users and demonstrate the difference that we make.

The Charity Commission describes the role of trustees as follows:

“Trustees have overall control of a charity and are responsible for making sure it’s doing what it was set up to do. They may be known by other titles, such as: directors; board members; governors; committee members. Whatever they are called, trustees are the people who lead the charity and decide how it is run.”

Role Description

As a member of the Board of Trustees, the Legal Trustee will have the expertise to ensure the strategic oversight of the charity’s governance and to support appropriate decisions and good governance by the Board. This includes:

• Undertaking a lead role for the Board of Trustees on all matters associated with the legal aspects of the organisation;
• Acting as a critical friend to the organisation’s senior management team when obtaining and acting on legal advice.

For full details, please download the ‘Legal Trustee recruitment pack‘ and ‘Legal Trustee role description and person spec‘ via the links on this page

For more information about being a Trustee go to: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-essential-trustee-what-you-need-to-know-cc3

How to apply

Please submit your application form, CV, and a supporting statement of no more than two pages explaining your interest in this post, and how you meet the points in the person specification, via the vacancy page on our website: Work with us – Foothold

Informal Conversations: these can be arranged with our CEO Jane Petit by emailing: [email protected]

Closing date: applications should be submitted by 12:00 GMT on Wednesday 1 July 2026.

Interviews: will be held on in central London on 14 July 2026

Reasonable travel and subsistence expenses can be reimbursed.

We hope that the successful candidate will be able to join the online Board meeting on 22 July 2026.