SAFE! seeks Trustees

What will you be doing?

Our purpose 

Our work is rooted in child‑centred, trauma‑informed and anti‑racist practice, ensuring that every young person is heard, believed and empowered. Through one‑to‑one support, groupwork, counselling, digital engagement and whole‑family interventions, we help children regain the confidence, safety and agency that crime or abuse has taken from them. As our business plan states, “SAFE! practitioners offer pragmatic strategies based on protective behaviours and restorative approaches… helping young people build resilience and improve future safety.” 

What are we looking for?

Why join us as a Trustee 

SAFE! is entering a pivotal period. The next two years bring both opportunity and uncertainty - from local authority reorganisation to the dissolution of Police and Crime Commissioners. Our business plan sets out a bold strategy to strengthen our services, diversify income, deepen our influence, and ensure that the voices of children and young people shape local and national systems. 

As a trustee, you will help steer an organisation that is: 

• Highly respected across the Thames Valley for its specialist expertise and values‑driven practice. 
• Innovative, expanding digital support, developing new resources, and leading sector‑wide conversations. 
• Committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, with EDI embedded across all strategic strands. 
• Focused on sustainability, with clear priorities for fundraising, organisational development and workforce wellbeing. 
• Driven by lived experience, ensuring children and families influence everything we do. 

SAFE! is looking for trustees who share our passion for protecting and empowering young people - and who want to help shape the future of a charity that is growing in scale, ambition and impact. 

We encourage applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and lived experience, recognising the valuable insight this brings to our governance and decision-making.

We are looking for Trustees with 3 years experience of the skills listed: Digital and IT Strategy, Accountancy/Auditing, Fundraising events/strategy & Data Protection/GDPR.

What difference will you make?

Our impact 

Over the last five years, SAFE! has grown significantly in scale, influence and expertise: 

• Supporting up to 1,500 children, young people and families each year, responding to rising levels of need across the region. 
• Embedding robust evaluation systems, demonstrating improvements in confidence, safety and wellbeing for the young people we support. 
• Expanding specialist services, including domestic and sexual abuse advocacy, counselling, and our nationally recognised work on Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA). 
• Strengthening whole‑family support, ensuring parents and carers are equipped to create safer, more stable home environments. 
• Leading national conversations, publishing research on peer‑on‑peer abuse and the award‑winning Living in Limbo report and video on criminal justice delays. 
• Training hundreds of professionals each year, improving the wider system’s ability to respond effectively to young victims of crime and abuse. 
• Building strong partnerships with local authorities, Thames Valley Police, universities, CAMHS, and specialist VAWG organisations - a commitment reflected throughout the business plan. 

Additional information

You can download the following documents:

Before you apply

https://safesupport.org.uk

Please apply through Reach in the first instance. 

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete our additional application form - a copy of which is in the Trustee pack linked to this opportunity.