Help children as Trustee of an innovative, enterprising Tees Valley Charity that is increasingly supporting children in care through fostering and a planned residential provision. Join an agency that transforms children's lives.
You will join us at an exciting time as we pursue growth of fostering and residential services, as well as growth of our early help offer (particularly family relationship and mentoring services).
We are particularly keen to welcome Trustees who have a growth mindset, local connections and can help us raise revenue for expansion. We are also keen to welcome Trustees who have the skills and interest to join our Audit, Risk & Resilience committee, our Residential Task Group or our Fostering Board.
You will provide support and challenge to the management team.
You’ll contribute 2 to 6 hours a month. The board meets every 8 weeks (shifting to quarterly after September).
You’ll join a Charity that’s brought £millions of investment into Tees Valley and that helps over 1000 local people a year. We’ve been runners up at the national Charity Governance Awards and ‘community’ winners at the Hartlepool Business Awards. Ofsted have rated the quality of fostering provision as "good".
We are looking for people who share our values and want to help. You do not need to have specific experience of the areas we work in, but transferable skills and/or extensive connections that could support our growth.
At this time we are specifically looking for Trustees with some of these areas of skills or experience:
Business development
Safeguarding management
Fostering or children's residential care or childrens social work management
Financial management
Property
Fundraising
We want to help children and family members heal from trauma, primarily through helping them develop a network of nurturing, loving and appropriately challenging relationships with people in their close and wider communities. Any small surplus we make from helping children in care will be diverted into work to help families stay together and thrive. You will join a team that strives to make this difference. You will help ensure the Charity keeps a strong focus on children and young peoples needs whilst being sustainability and ensuring the agency manages the risks associated with growth and investment in new services.
After expressing an interest through the site, we'd welcome an initial conversation with our CEO and/or Chair. After that, we usually take applications to the Board for consideration. This is usually quite a quick process.
