Gloucestershire Community Foundation
Trustee for Gloucestershire charity - Volunteer
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Trustee Vacancies – Gloucestershire Community Foundation
We’re seeking dedicated trustees to reinforce our exceptional work within Gloucestershire communities. Our Board of Trustees embodies a culture of "we are here to serve" and passionately supports the Gloucestershire Community Foundation (GCF) in driving positive change.
Why Your Role Matters
As a trustee, you’ll act as an ambassador and advocate, elevating GCF’s work across Gloucestershire while joining our strategic journey to empower local communities. This involves shaping our roadmap around three pillars:
- Encouraging philanthropy
- Investing in communities
- Increasing our impact countywide
Key Attributes We’re Looking For
We’re seeking diverse talent with expertise in areas including business development, fundraising, events, and digital. Ideal candidates will demonstrate:
- Commitment to GCF’s vision, mission, and values, including leadership within an organisation (or the equivalent in young people/community engagement)
- Availability to dedicate time to trusteeship, including supporting GCF events and local visits
- Tact and diplomacy, ensuring fair, confidential decision-making
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with confidence, warmth, and passion
- Strategic insight and independent judgement, complemented by personal gravitas
- A clear understanding of and adherence to the legal duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of trusteeship
- Deep commitment to diversity, inclusion, sustainability, and equality in all foundation work
- The ability to collaborate effectively as part of a diverse board
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Role Responsibilities
Trustees represent Gloucestershire’s varied communities and fulfil both governance and advocacy functions. As a registered charity and company limited by guarantee, the board holds legal responsibility for managing the organisation’s operations while ensuring its public benefit mission is realised.
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Strategic Contributions
Trustees play a vital role in financial, operational, and strategic oversight, including:
- Raising interventions: Influencing policy, increasing awareness of the critical role charities play in Gloucestershire’s future
- Funding and impact: Ensuring equitable distribution of our ambitious £1 million/year commitment to communities, both now and permanently
Community Engagement
overset a positive sense of place by rallying residents and sectors alike around Gloucestershire’s shared values, encouraging giving in all forms (funding, volunteering, skills, education, sector leadership).
The board operates on a hybrid basis, allowing flexibility provided timescales and deadlines are met.
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