Overview
SILC serves disabled people, older people & carers throughout Surrey. We’re seeking trustees with lived experience of disability to join our board and help shape the future of SILC.
What difference will you make?
Volunteering as a SILC trustee will give you the opportunity to make a difference at a strategic level and ensure that the charity’s resources are used effectively to tackle the issues identified; changing our community for the better.
What are we looking for?
Surrey Independent Living Charity (SILC) Trustee Person Specification
- A commitment to the organisation and a passion for the cause
- A willingness to devote the necessary time and effort we estimate that this would be no more than 2-3 hours per month, but we would welcome more time if desired by the individual for specific projects.
- Strategic vision the Board of Trustees must work with operational management to set a strategy to take the charity forward and ensure its ongoing viability and direction. Having agreed the strategy, the Board of Trustees must take leadership with its implementation
- Good, independent judgement
- An ability to think creatively
- A willingness to speak your mind
- An understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship
- An ability to work effectively as a member of a team
- Selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
- A willingness to be available to all staff for advice and enquiries on an ad hoc basis.
What will you be doing?
SILC is a User Led Organisation that serves disabled adults, older people, children with disabilities and carers throughout Surrey. We believe that every disabled adult, child, older person and carer should be able to live independently with the same choices, opportunities and control over their lives as anyone else.
We are currently seeking to recruit additional trustees with lived experience of disability. We are seeking trustees from the Surrey area who have a passion for our work and would like to help further the aims of the charity.
Minimum requirement is attendance at 6 Trustees meetings a year along with an additional time commitment of 2-3 hours a month. Any additional support would also be highly valuable, welcome and appreciated.
In return you will have the opportunity to work with an established and respected charity, join a small group of friendly, committed, and positive fellow trustees and work with a passionate, experienced, and knowledgeable staff team to deliver on a very worthy cause.
Volunteering as a SILC trustee will give you the opportunity to make a difference at a strategic level and ensure that the charity’s resources are used effectively to tackle the issues identified; changing our community for the better.
As a SILC Trustee you will be able to develop a range of useful board-related skills to support your own professional development such as in strategy, governance, leadership, business management, financial acumen, compliance and risk management, fundraising etc. Board trusteeship is particularly useful if you aim to lead people, set up your own organisation and / or plan sit on boards in future.
Our Chair of Trustees says “During the pandemic I became a local volunteer carrying out activities very different to my day job. What surprised me most was the number of people struggling to stay in their own homes – often not asking for help for fear of losing control over their lives. As a result, I became a Trustee of SILC – a charity that helps people stay in their own homes and in control. Being able to use my commercial skills to support a cause that matters to me has been very rewarding. Finding SILC, and a cause I am passionate about, has provided me with a strong sense of purpose outside of my day-to-day work and I feel better for it!
SILC is an Equal Opportunities employer. We positively welcome applications from disabled people and carers.
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