Do you have experience in corporate governance from a Company Secretary or professional legal role?
Then Bradbourne RDA would like the opportunity to talk to you about applying your expertise to strengthen its Board.
This role provides an interesting and rewarding opportunity to be part of one of the South East’s forward looking charities devoted to enabling those with disabilities to develop life skills and achieve personal ambitions while connecting with animals in the countryside.
All Trustees are responsible for:
The individual we are keen to appoint will succeed a long standing and highly experienced person who is retiring. Their primary focus areas will be:
The successful candidate will work alongside other trustees to ensure strict attention to governance is applied at all times which inspires public confidence and trust in the charity.
Ideally the individual will be able to assist the Board of Trustees with contractual documentation, lease queries, implications of charity law changes, and all types of matters arising from documentation with external parties.
REQUIRED SKILLS
In more general terms, the key specifications for the trustee role are:
Essential:
Desirable:
With no paid staff and every member of the team from trustees, to coaches, to helpers all being volunteers, everyone at Bradbourne RDA Group has chosen to join to make a difference and ensure each and every rider and carriage driver has the most positive, beneficial and enjoyable experience each time they come.
With ever increasingly busy lives and many of the volunteers who are interested to do so already doing extra activities over and above helping with a session of rides and carriage drives, it is not possible to take on additional initiatives or implement the range of ideas the Board has without over-committing existing helpers, without whom we cannot run rides and carriage drives.
There is considerable pressure on the Chairman of Trustees to lead on and undertake a wide range of activities in addition to their workload at Bradbourne RDA Group, and with natural retirement of Trustees it is important the Board is strengthened with expertise from outside of the Group to assist Bradbourne RDA to continue to flourish and undertake those activities and projects which will enhance its offering to disabled people from the local area for years to come.
Bradbourne RDA Group is one of the largest RDA groups in the UK and has been operating for sixty years. It is based at the Bradbourne Riding and Training Centre outside Sevenoaks and is entirely run by 130 volunteers who enable over 300 disabled riders and carriage drivers to participate over 3,500 riding and driving activities each year. There are no paid staff. The busy Group takes part in dressage, endurance, and show jumping, and is regularly involved in local, regional, and national RDA events, local shows and fund raising activities.
