Trustee with Local Business Connections or Family Experience of Disabilities

Trustee with Local Business Connections or Family Experience of Disabilities

Trustee/Governor
J103506
At a glance

Skills

  • Marketing strategy
  • Business development / Sales
  • Commissioning / Contracting
  • Fundraising events
  • Legal
  • HR
  • Volunteer management
  • Property management

Where

Warwickshire, CV22 7AN
Mainly at the office
Travel limit? N/A

Time

Either in or out of office hours Estimate of time needed:
0-5 hours / month
4 Board meetings a year (circa 2.5 hours) & up to 4 sub group meetings per year

Deadline

16 Sep 2025

Make a Real Difference - Become a TrusteeTrustee with local business connections wanted to help this Rugby based charity supporting vulnerable people including those with Learning disabilities, Autism, ADHD and Mental Health issues .

What will you be doing?

We are preparing to celebrate our 75th year of providing accommodation and support within the town of Rugby and our incredible journey and growth in that time. We have ten board members currently with backgrounds in Finance, HR, Local Government, private business and education.

We have successfully expanded our supported living and residential care home provision over the last few years and have plans to develop even more respite provision to meet the growing need we are seeing from local families.

New Directions Rugby supports over 100 people on a daily basis to live as independently as possible and employs over 200 people from the local area.

We have a Finance and Development Sub Group and a Quality and Policy Sub Group and all Trustees are asked to join one or the other of our sub-groups in addition to the regular attendance at our quarterly board meetings.

What are we looking for?

Working within a management role in a registered social landlord, like a housing association or private provider:

  • Focus on key issues and support the organisation in reaching positive outcomes
  • Provide guidance on new initiatives, in particular within your fields of expertise
  • Partnership work
  • Knowledge of effective business planning, governance, management
  • Ability to analyse risk and assist with scrutiny of business plans
  • Experience of overseeing or being involved in new developments

What difference will you make?

We have developed our provision and support over the last 5 years and as we enter a new 3 year strategic planning period we would like to recruit a trustee who has connections to the local business community or has family experience of disability to help bring this additional expertise to our current board of Trustees.

Before you apply

Join our board of Trustees to make a difference to the lives of the people we support. Please contact us for a link to our application form. 

Causes
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Learning disabilities / difficulties
  • Local / community
  • Older people / later life
  • Social care
  • Organisation type: 
    Charity

    We are a vibrant local community charity that supports vulnerable people with learning and physical disabilities and their families/carers in Rugby and the surrounding areas.