Wigan Parent Carer Forum
Trustee – Finance - Volunteer
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Trustee – Finance - Volunteer
We're strengthening our board and need a finance trustee to lead our financial oversight. If you have a head for numbers and want to help protect an organisation that supports SEND families across Wigan, we'd love to hear from you.
What difference will you make?
Without sound financial oversight, even the best-run organisation is exposed. Right now, the board manages its financial responsibilities carefully, but without a trustee who can lead confidently in this space. Your involvement changes that.
You'll give the board the financial literacy and confidence it needs to make well-informed decisions about spending, reserves, risk and longer-term sustainability. You'll ensure our accounts are properly overseen and that our financial controls are appropriate for an organisation of our size and complexity.
That matters enormously. The families we support across Wigan depend on the forum being here for the long term. Strong financial governance is what makes that possible.
What are we looking for?
We need someone who genuinely cares about what we do for the SEND families in Wigan, we're here to support, and who brings that commitment to the table alongside their professional skills. You don't need personal experience of the SEND system, but you do need to understand why the forum's work matters and take your role in safeguarding it seriously.
Professionally, we're looking for someone with a solid background in finance or accounting. You'll be confident in reading and presenting financial statements, comfortable with concepts such as reserves, risk, and cash flow, and able to lead the board's thinking on our financial position. Ideally, you'll have some familiarity with charity accounting, though we'd consider someone keen to get up to speed quickly if they're strong in every other respect.
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Just as important as your technical knowledge is how you communicate it. Our board includes people from a range of backgrounds, and not everyone is financially fluent. We need a finance trustee who can explain things clearly to non-specialists and help the whole board feel genuinely informed, not just the people who already understand the numbers.
We're looking for someone who is rigorous without being inflexible and who understands that financial governance in a small charity is as much about judgment as it is about process. The questions we face aren't always straightforward, and we need someone who can hold complexity and still help us make clear decisions.
If you have experience in the voluntary or community sector, that's a definite advantage. Charity finance has its own rhythms and pressures, and familiarity with that world helps. Experience of supporting an organisation through a period of change or growth would also be particularly valuable.
No previous trustee experience is needed. We'll provide a full induction and make sure you feel supported from day one. We're a small, collaborative board that takes governance seriously and genuinely values what each trustee brings.
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What will you be doing?
Wigan Parent Carer Forum has a small board of trustees and employs a dedicated staff team who deliver our work day to day. We are currently in an active period of trustee recruitment, working to build a board with the range of expertise our organisation needs, and a finance trustee is a priority.
As our finance trustee, you'll lead the board's financial oversight. Our day-to-day finances are managed operationally, but it's your role to make sure the board properly understands and acts on our financial position. That means presenting and interpreting financial reports at board meetings, overseeing the annual accounts process, and helping us keep our financial policies, including our reserves policy, up to date and fit for purpose.
You'll also play an important role in how we think about financial sustainability. Like many voluntary organisations, our core funding comes from a single government source, and building greater resilience over time is something the board needs to take seriously. You'll help us think clearly about risk and planning in that context.
Beyond your finance specialism, you'll contribute fully as a trustee by joining board meetings, engaging in strategic decisions, and helping shape the direction of the forum.
This is a meaningful moment to join. We're investing in our governance and building a stronger board to carry the forum forward. Your expertise is central to that.
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