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Chair of Trustees for Playing for Cake - Volunteer
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Playing for Cake Board Chair
Playing for Cake offers both health-focused and fun-based musical sessions in Norfolk. You will play a vital role in helping the charity harness the power of singing to improve lives, strengthen communities, and ensure that everyone can experience the health and wellbeing benefits of singing.
What difference will you make?
As the Chair of the Playing For Cake Board you can ensure we grow our opportunities for growth, partnership and sustainability. Ensuring we are fit for the future and have an even better reputation for effective services, demonstrating our impact to all of our stakeholders, users of services and the wider public.
What are we looking for?
Essential Experience And Skills
- Previous experience of leadership, governance, or serving on a Board of Trustees.
- Strong strategic thinking and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
- Ability to chair meetings effectively and build consensus.
- Understanding of financial oversight and organisational risk.
- Commitment to good governance and the responsibilities of trusteeship.
- Ability to inspire, support, and challenge constructively.
Desirable Experience and Knowledge
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- Experience within the charity, health, arts, community, or social enterprise sectors, particularly in Norfolk.
- Knowledge of the evidence base around singing, arts participation, and health and wellbeing.
- Experience of fundraising, stakeholder engagement, or partnership development.
- Understanding of community health inequalities and inclusive practice.
- Experience of organisational growth or change management.
Playing for Cake is committed to building a diverse and inclusive Board that reflects the communities it serves. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of health challenges, individuals from underrepresented communities, and those who can bring a broad range of perspectives and experiences to the Board.
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What will you be doing?
The Chair of Trustees will play a vital role in helping the charity harness the power of singing to improve lives, strengthen communities, and ensure that everyone can experience the health and wellbeing benefits of singing.
With our founder stepping down but continuing to work closely with Playing For Cake as patron, there is an opportunity to refresh the Board and assess the skills we need to ensure we are as effective as possible. We have already added some crucial knowledge and skills with some new trustees coming on board. But we are still looking for the right person to take the position of Chair to drive the good work that has already taken place.
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You will provide strategic leadership to the Board and work closely with staff, trustees, group leaders and volunteers to consolidate and build on the already strong reputation of the charity as it seeks to build on its impact on health and wellbeing for local people in Norfolk.
This will include reviewing Playing for Cake's vision and objectives and setting a strategic direction for the next stage of the charity's development. And, importantly, inspiring and taking everyone connected with the organisation on the next stages of the journey.
You will be maintaining and building new productive relationships in the area in conjunction with the Charity's patron and other key people.
You must be passionate about singing as a therapeutic approach and have experience of working in health and social care settings. If you have knowledge of health and social care in Norfolk, even better!
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