Trustees

Abortion Talk is at an exciting time in our short history. We’ve been running for three years now, and we’ve successfully established our volunteer-led Talkline service, and developed a range of workshops. Now it’s time for us to focus on developing our services, improving our infrastructure and growing our income, so that we can build on our early successes and do even more to challenge abortion stigma. 

We’ve recently developed our first three-year strategy, which sets out our objectives for this next phase in Abortion Talk’s history. To help us put this plan into action, we need people on our board with the skills, values and time to help us achieve our ambitious goals for the future. Following an audit of our current board members’ skills, we’re recruiting:

• A treasurer. 

• A trustee with a digital services background, to help us develop our Talkline. 

• A trustee who can support our business development and income generation from sales, to provide strategic leadership on the sale of our workshops and diversifying our income away from time-limited grants. 

• A trustee with a background in volunteer management and strategy. Experience in growing a small charity would be a bonus.

What being on the board involves 

All Abortion Talk trustees are responsible for ensuring that we: 

• focus on our objective to end abortion stigma, overseeing the implementation of our three-year strategy. 

• comply with our governing document (i.e. our charitable objects), charity law, company law and any other relevant legislation or regulation.

• apply our resources only in pursuing our charitable objects and for the benefit of the public.

• evaluate the success of our three-year strategy against agreed targets.

• protect the pro-choice, feminist and inclusive values of our charity. 

• effectively govern the charity, which includes making sure we have the proper policies and procedures in place. 

• ensure financial stability. 

Full details and role profiles for the specialist roles available on our website. Interviews are scheduled for w/c 7 October.