Trustees

Trelya are looking for new people to join our existing Board of Trustees. At an exciting time

of development, we are looking for board members who can bring their knowledge, skills

and expertise to support the charity in its mission.

Trelya (the Cornish word for ‘change’), is an award-winning charity working to improve

mental health, wellbeing, and enable positive change in West Cornwall’s most under

resourced communities. Trelya tackles the structural inequalities and barriers which fuel

cycles of deprivation head on. We aim to equip children and families with the skills and

resources they need to break free and build positive, happy, healthy and fulfilling futures.

Learning from over 20 years of grass roots experience we ensure our organisational aims

are always led by the needs of our community. Our responses are innovative, tailored, and

deliver what is really needed to enable long term, sustainable difference. We aim to find

and build on often undiscovered inner strength and resilience. Every person is treated as an

individual, we unlock their core assets and use these to ignite hope, ambition and fulfilment.

We know from experience that the children, young people and families living in our

communities are unique and skilled individuals with incredible potential. Trelya creates

opportunities to fulfil that potential through provision of a nursery (rated ‘Outstanding’ by

Ofsted), an award-winning youth work programme and ‘Gul,’ our highly successful adult

employment and training programme.

Trelya aims to break the generational cycle of social and economic deprivation. We aim to

enable children and families facing the greatest challenges, barriers and difficulties to

develop the skills, knowledge, awareness, motivation and aspirations necessary to break

the cycle. As a trustee you will become part of a dynamic and committed team providing

strategic oversight to build positive, happy, healthy and fulfilling futures.

Trelya has been part of the Penzance community since 2001. We are an ambitious and

forward thinking organisation with clear aims and objectives. We’re looking to recruit new

trustees, who have skills and experience in Finance (including VAT/ Procurement);

IT/Administration; Buildings Management; Charity Governance; Public Relations/Digital

Media who can help us to achieve our aims over the coming years by bringing enthusiasm,

personal experience and imagination.

We are looking for trustees with a commitment to the mission of Trelya, who can work well

in a small team of trustees, with good judgement, diplomacy, the ability to think strategically

and communicate effectively. We wish to strengthen and diversify our Board and extend

representation within Trelya to ensure that the board has insight from a range of

communities. We welcome applications from anyone, regardless of their age, disability,

ethnicity, heritage, sexuality, gender and socio-economic background. Trelya has a board

of up to 12 trustees.

For more information on Trelya please visit our jobs page on our website.

How to apply

To apply please email Trelya enclosing your CV and a letter of introduction responding to the following questions:

 Why have you applied to become a trustee?

 How will your skills, knowledge or experience strengthen Trelya’s board?