Trustee Vacancies – 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.”

For full details, please download the ‘Trustee recruitment pack‘ 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

This is a rolling application process and we are working with Polly Symondson Recruitment on this role.

Please find application details through this link: Polly Symondson Recruitment – Foothold Trustee Roles