The UK's youth movement for people with refugee backgrounds to build community, become leaders and flourish in the place they call home.
As we embark on an ambitious 3-year strategy, we’re looking for passionate and skilled trustees to join our Board and help shape the next chapter of our journey.
With residential trips, leadership training, youth hubs, and one-to-one support, we are creating a peer-led social movement, and have welcomed over 500 young people from 47 different countries on our programmes since 2018.
The next few years for OSH will be about:
Growing our impact
As well as our bases in London and Bristol, we intend to have 3 new regional OSH Hubs in the UK. We also want to deepen our impact in the places where we are already active.
Creating pathways for leadershipWe pride ourselves on offering meaningful leadership opportunities for the communities we serve, and want to expand these, and be thought leaders across the sector on lived experience leadership.
Embedding our culture
Our ambition of growing into an organisation with national scope cannot come at the cost of diluting the things make our activities so special. We will embed a culture that is robust and can withstand organisational transition.
A new income generation plan
We rely on trusts and foundations for three quarters of the funds to do our work. To unlock the growth that we want, we must have a more diverse mix of funding streams with donors and partners to make this possible.
We are particularly looking for trustees with these backgrounds
ABOUT YOU
What you gain – being a trustee is an opportunity to:
Our Second Home is an equal opportunity organisation, committed to fostering diversity and inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups, particularly those who have lived experience of the asylum system.
Through our new strategy, we aim to become the fastest-growing youth charity in the refugee sector – one that places inclusion, empowerment, and impact at the heart of everything that we do. This progress would not be possible without the leadership and dedication of our trustees.
You will help us to reach 1,000 young people a year with refugee backgrounds by 2028.
Please provide a CV and a cover letter detailing why you are interested in this role and your relevant experience. Interviews will be an informal Zoom chat with CEO and trustees.
