THE LEICESTER COUNSELLING CENTRE
Trustee - Volunteer
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Contribute to the Wellbeing and Positive Mental Health of Your Local Community
Join the Board of The Leicester Counselling Centre and help shape strategy, support good governance, and ensure affordable counselling remains available across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.
What Difference Will You Make?
As a member of our board, you will help us deliver our vital service to clients seeking affordable long-term counselling. NHS provision is extremely limited, and we are one of a very few local charities providing such a service.
As a trustee, you will play a critical part in ensuring that we can function effectively. You will use your skills, experience, wisdom, and judgement to shape and support our service as it continues to evolve and respond to local need.
What Are We Looking For?
Our trustees play a vital role in shaping strategy, supporting good governance, and providing effective oversight. We are looking for people who:
- Have an interest in mental health and wellbeing and a commitment to providing an effective and affordable service to individual clients.
- Can work as a member of a team.
- Live in or have connections with our area.
- Can commit time to working on specific initiatives, as well as the wider business of board meetings.
- Have local connections that may support our fundraising efforts.
- May have skills and experience in governance, safeguarding, fundraising, change management, and mental health service management.
- May have been a former service user of a counselling service.
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What Are We Looking For?
We are looking to appoint more than one trustee and particularly value skills and experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Communications/social media
- HR/volunteer management
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Fundraising/community engagement
- Data analysis / impact measurement
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive Board that reflects the communities we serve. We particularly encourage applications from people whose voices are under-represented in charity governance and from those with lived or professional experience relevant to our work.
What Will You Be Doing?
The Leicester Counselling Centre is a thriving charity that is highly thought of and attracts trainee counsellors from across the Midlands. We are a warm and supportive organisation, ambitious to improve our reach and impact over the coming years.
Our trustees play a vital role in shaping strategy, supporting good governance, and providing effective oversight. The Leicester Counselling Centre is a thriving charity that is highly thought of and attracts trainee counsellors from across the Midlands. We are a warm and supportive group, ambitious to improve our reach and impact over the coming years.
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- Contribute to the strategic direction, governance, and financial oversight of the charity
- Work with fellow trustees and senior staff to support effective decision-making and sustainable development
- Ensure that the charity operates in line with its charitable purposes and relevant legal and regulatory requirements
- Promote good safeguarding, confidentiality, and ethical practice across the organisation
- Act in the best interests of The Leicester Counselling Centre and the people it supports
This is an opportunity to become part of a well-established local charity with an excellent reputation and to help ensure its continued success for future generations.
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New trustees will receive an induction to help them understand the charity's services, governance arrangements, and priorities. Relevant training and ongoing support will be available to help trustees contribute effectively in the role.
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