Trustee

Wiltshire Community Foundation is recruiting new members to join our board of trustees and would particularly love to hear from people with a background in either accountancy or audit or within the voluntary sector.

About Us

Wiltshire Community Foundation is an independent charity. We exist to tackle disadvantage and strengthen local communities by inspiring philanthropy and supporting the voluntary sector. Our mission is to maximise the impact of charitable activity by connecting people, information and resources.

2025 is an exciting year for us. It marks our 50th birthday, a significant milestone celebrating five decades of connecting people who care with causes that matter. We are also reaching the end of our 2020-2025 organisational strategy, which has seen significant change, development and achievement within our organisation. We are now entering our new five-year strategy, and as we enter this new chapter, we are looking to appoint some new trustees to our board, to help us continue to inspire philanthropy and enable our local voluntary sector to help people in our communities to thrive.

About You

We want to reflect the communities we support by bringing a range of diverse voices, skills, backgrounds and experiences to our board. Candidates do not have to have previous experience of sitting on a board. You don’t need a charity background or a university degree to be a trustee, or to have reached any particular stage in your career.

What’s important to us is a keen interest in Wiltshire and Swindon, a commitment to creating positive change for our local communities, and a willingness to contribute time, attention and passion to the role, to our thinking and to the future success of our organisation.

Anyone applying with an accountancy or audit background will be expected to join our Audit, Finance & Risk committee and anyone applying with a voluntary sector background will be expected to join our Programme Delivery committee. Please be sure to include reference to these skills in your application. If your skills don’t match this, but are interested please get in touch as other vacancies for trustees may arise in the future.

To Apply

If you would like to apply to be a trustee at Wiltshire Community Foundation please send us:

• A short, written statement (maximum two sides A4) or a video or audio (of no more than 5 minutes) supporting your application. Please include: why you would like to join the board; what skills you would bring to the organisation; a bit about yourself; any previous experience.
• A CV setting out your education/training background and career history. 

Please send this to the email address outlined in the 'How to Apply' page in the recruitment pack.

The deadline for applications is 31 March, and interviews will be held by the end of April 2025.