Trustee - Volunteer

Overview

Looking for a Trustee to support blind and partially sighted people in Merseyside.

What difference will you make?

Being a Trustee of Bradbury Fields is a hugely rewarding role and what makes us different from other charities is our culture and specialisms. Many of our staff and volunteers are themselves visually impaired.

New Trustees will benefit by learning about visual impairment, the inequalities that exist in access to mainstream services and the impact of those barriers on our beneficiaries / service users.

We are currently looking for several new Trustees to join the Board. As such, we’d specifically like to attract people with experience in:

• Income generation and fundraising
• Communications and marketing
• Finance

Additionally

• Ability to understand and accept the duties and liabilities of being a Charity Trustee
• Strong leadership to achieve the vision, mission and aims of Bradbury Fields
• A willingness and ability to devote the necessary time and effort

We are looking for

• Ability to understand and accept the duties and liabilities of being a Charity Trustee
• Strong leadership to achieve the vision, mission and aims of Bradbury Fields
• A willingness and ability to devote the necessary time and effort
• Helping to formulate strategic, business and corporate partnership plans
• Guide and consult on matters of strategy, governance and finance
• Ongoing assessment of the Charity's legal integrity
• Promoting the Charity's work and reputation amongst contacts
• Championing behaviours around equality of diversity and inclusion

• Ability to think and apply knowledge strategically
• Ability to think creatively
• Ability to keep mission-focused
• Ability to analyse and evaluate management information and other evidence
• Willingness to listen and learn

• Ability to communicate clearly and sensitively and to take an active part in discussions
• Ability to influence and engage
• Ability to work effectively in a group
• Willingness to express their own opinion in a reasoned way, while also listening to the views of others
• Ability to challenge constructively and ask questions appropriately

• Ability to exercise sound and independent judgment
• Willingness to make and stand by collective decisions, including those which may be unpopular
• Ability to manage difficult and/or challenging situations
• Ability to maintain confidentiality on sensitive information