The Board of Trustees is responsible for strategic direction, overseeing and governing, and is crucial for the effective functioning and success of West Mercia Women’s Aid (WMWA). Trustees are instrumental in ensuring that the organisation achieves its mission, maintains its integrity, and fulfils its obligations to its stakeholders and the community it serves.

As the leading regional specialist organisation supported by over 100 dedicated staff and volunteers, WMWA works to empower those whose lives have been affected by gender-based/intimate partner violence and abuse, providing a range of services in the West Mercia region covering the areas of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, and Telford & Wrekin.

The succession planning of our Board is essential, and we are committed to its continual improvement. We are keen to recruit women who have skills and life experiences that complement and add value and diversity to our existing team of Trustees. Our Board is ably supported by a Clerk to the Board of Trustees, and we have established governance processes already in place for Committee and Board meetings, both of which take place online.

Trustees on our Board are passionate and dedicated to our role and mission, to our governance and to providing strategic leadership. They work together as a team, have a variety of skills, talents, and life experiences, and come from all walks of life. Currently over half of our Board have lived experience of domestic abuse, and we continually strive to make sure we have representation. So, although not essential, we are keen to receive applications from women who have lived experience, or an understanding of, domestic abuse. Ex-service users are particularly welcome although at least two years must have elapsed since using our services.

To further support our Board succession we are actively seeking applications from women who have Chair, Vice Chair, governance or financial experience  and/or skills on charity Boards.