Trustee

Trustee

We are seeking new Trustees to bring fresh perspectives, lived experience and professional expertise to help shape the future of a vital community charity.

Role: Trustee
Salary: Voluntary, unpaid role
Location: Huddersfield
Hours: Voluntary commitment
Closing date: Please apply as soon as possible

About the role

This is an opportunity to join Huddersfield Mission at an important point in its development. Following the departure of several long-standing Board members, the charity is looking to refresh and diversify its governance and welcome people who can bring new ideas, challenge and experience.

As a Trustee, you will help turn the Mission’s vision of ‘Serving People, Changing Lives’ into action, supporting an organisation working with people facing homelessness, poverty, mental health challenges and other complex needs.

You will work alongside fellow Trustees and the leadership team to:

• Help shape the charity’s strategy, direction and future services.
• Provide constructive challenge, insight and good governance.
• Support plans to develop more sustainable income through fundraising, the community café and venue hire.
• Help strengthen partnerships and connections across Huddersfield.
• Contribute to areas such as Finance, HR or Marketing and Communications, depending on your experience and interests.
• Help the charity explore opportunities to tackle the underlying causes of disadvantage, including housing, health, wellbeing and specialist advice.

About you

You do not need previous Trustee experience to make a valuable contribution.

We are particularly interested in hearing from people with lived or professional experience of homelessness, mental health, poverty or addiction, as well as those with expertise in:

• Advice, information and guidance
• Communications and marketing
• Income generation and fundraising
• Business
• Housing

Most importantly, you will care about the Mission’s purpose and be willing to contribute your experience and perspective to help it make the greatest possible difference.

Trustees do not need to be Methodist. Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds, faiths or none, provided they are supportive of the charity’s objectives.

To apply for this post: - Please send your CV and covering letter to paul.bridges@huddersfieldmission.org.uk. We will respond to all applications sent in.

About the organisation

Huddersfield Mission is an independent Methodist charity with more than a century of social action in the town. It provides an inclusive, non-judgemental place where people can access immediate practical help alongside longer-term advice, advocacy and support.

Its services include a community café serving around 11,000 meals each year, a five-day-a-week drop-in advice service supporting more than 900 people annually, community health activities and a busy building used by around 1,000 people each week.

This is a chance to use your skills, professional experience or lived experience to help shape what comes next for an organisation firmly rooted in its local community.

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Board Member, Charity Trustee, Non-Executive Director, Community Trustee, Lived Experience Trustee, Communications Trustee, Marketing Trustee, Housing Trustee, Mental Health Trustee, Fundraising Trustee, Income Generation Trustee, Advice Services Trustee.