Trustee - Children's Charity - Volunteer

Help children as Trustee of an innovative North East Charity that supports families, children and children in care through family help, fostering and a planned residential home. Help us transform children's lives. As a minimum, you will also join finance or people and culture committee. What difference will you make? 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. What are we looking for? At this time we are specifically looking for Trustees with some of these areas of skills or experience Management Business finance Finance HR / People and culture Service quality and development Audit and risk management Hybrid What will you be doing? 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. You will joint at least one committee. Optionally, you may join the "services" committee as well. You will provide support and challenge to the management team. You'll contribute 2 to 6 hours a month. The Charity board meets every quarter and committees every 8 to 52 weeks depending on which. There is an annual in person away day which Trustees are asked to attend in person. 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. We are looking for experienced professionals who share our values and want to help.