Trustee for Age Concern Twyford & District

Trustee for Age Concern Twyford & District
Do you want to support the governance of Age Concern Twyford & District and help improve the lives of older people?

Our charity, set up in 1988, opened our Day Centre in 1996, and is now an independent, local charity, unaffiliated with others, providing a wide range of services and social support to older people in Twyford and its vicinity. We’re looking to upskill our trustee Board, looking for new trustee appointments of people with a range of appropriate interests and abilities.

In 2023-24, our turnover was £160k, as our charity recovers after the financial constraints of the pandemic, and our services and facilities return to being well-used and very well-appreciated in our community.

Our Board includes people with experience and skills in an organisation that provides for local older people, and we’d expect you to have empathy with our cause and our beneficiaries. 

We’re looking for a “general” trustee, but if you have specific interests or skills in Financial Management, possibly in a charity context, or an understanding of corporate (or charity) Governance, including some legal understanding of compliance, we’d like to speak with you.

And if you don’t have those skills, please talk to us anyway, as you don’t necessarily need prior experience of charity trusteeship: support from local charity-advice 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 what’s needed by our trustees, and you’ll work collectively with all other Board members. Support and information from our Centre Manager is available, as they deal 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 fresh expertise and experience to expand the diversity of our Board, in all aspects, and we welcome potential trustees with ideas and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds.

The Board meets face-to-face, monthly at our Day Centre (RG10 9RP) for up to 2 hours and some of your trustee duties can be carried-out online.

The focus of a trustee role is strategic, and trustees will not be expected to get involved in the organisation’s operations on a day-to-day basis; however, contact and liaison with other trustees and employees is expected. 

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 Person 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 interview offered as soon as mutually convenient.   

Contact Mike Allen via Quick Apply, below, for more information and arrange to have a no-obligation initial informal chat (Teams/Zoom/phone) about this role.