Vranch House

Position - Trustee

Location - Exeter

Salary - Unremunerated

Vranch House- principal activities and organisation of our work:

The charity is constituted as a company limited by guarantee and is therefore governed by a memorandum and articles of association.

The charity's objects and principal activities continues to be those of:

• Promoting and providing facilities for the care, education, training, treatment and welfare in their respective aspects of disabled children.
• Advising, helping or catering for the needs of the parents or others having the care of disabled children

The core activities arising from these aims are the education of children with physical difficulties from the age of 2 to 18 at Vranch House School in Exeter, and the provision of paediatric therapy and clinical treatment to children as outpatients at locations throughout Devon.

The Vranch House Limited is registered with the Charity Commissioners as Charity Number 1002700 and with Companies House under the Registered Number 2599511

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an engaged leader to join an ambitious and dedicated board and utilise their diverse skillset or wide scope of charity knowledge to provide responsible and appropriate oversight, governance and leadership for the organisation. The trustee will ideally be someone who has proven experience working closely or a desire to work with and on charity Boards, and will be able to offer the Board and Senior Management Team (SMT) insight into a professional areas of knowledge ranging from charity governance, charity finance, HR and fundraising to data compliance etc.

About You

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate at least one of the following:

-An eagerness to be an active board member who will offer guidance and expertise when relevant.

-Direct trustee experience on a charity board and can provide insight into how to achieve the highest standard of governance within a charity.

- An ability to utilise past experiences working on or closely with charity or other management boards to encourage best practices and transparency between the board members, the SMT and staff

- That you are committed to making a difference to children with physical difficulties and supporting their families and carers.  That you feel passionately that children's right to access education, therapies and play is important for the health and development of the children of Devon.

That you have an ability to provide support in at least one key area from the following skill set: financial, education, development, HR, business skills, safeguarding or health, contracting or law

Time Commitment

Board Meetings: Currently 4-6 meetings a year, 2 hour board meetings.

Possible Sub-Committee Meetings: Quarterly

Please send your CV to [email protected] and we will then provide the recruitment pack with more information about the role and how to apply.

Closing date for all applications is October 2024