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Becoming a non-profit trustee means taking on a vital role within a charity or non-profit organisation. As one of the trustees, you'll be responsible for helping guide the charity's mission, making strategic decisions, and ensuring that resources are used effectively. Your input shapes the charity's future and directly impacts its success in achieving its goals. It's an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to a cause you care about and make a tangible difference.
Ready to take the leap and become a trustee? Check out some of our board and trustee roles below!
🏢 Voluntary Action Reigate & Banstead (VARB) provides advice and practical support, including volunteer recruitment advice, to voluntary, community & faith organisations in the Borough of Reigate & Banstead. We are currently recruiting new Trustees to join our board and bring new skills, experience, and diversity. We are also looking for a Treasurer, the main responsibilities for this role is to oversee financial management and planning in the organisation and ensure we have robust financial procedures in place.
🏫 School Appeals Service, Surrey County Council is a small, friendly, hardworking, independent team at Surrey County Council looking for Panel Member Volunteers to sit on admission appeal panels for a variety of schools in Surrey, working closely with the Team for the benefit of parents, children, the Local Authority, Schools and Governing Bodies.
💰 Watercolour Community Space is part of the Watercolour Estate, which has existed for 14 years and comprises of over 600 flats and houses. It benefits from a children's nursery, a vet, a pharmacy, a doctors surgery and a Tesco Express. The nature reserve is also close by offering spectacular walks and views, as well as an array of wildlife. Trustees will work together to ensure that the long-awaited Community Space can become a vibrant hub of the development, offering the ability to bring residents together. They are looking for a Treasurer to join their monthly trustee meetings for about 90 minutes and be available initially for an extra 2-3 hours a month to get things off the ground.
🌿 Growing Redhill is a community gardening group for Redhill and the surrounding area. They are looking for a Chairperson to lead the trustees and help them meet their goals. By joining, you are helping local people to get into gardening.
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🚗 Lingfield and Dormansland Meals On Wheels provide and deliver a hot meal for their clients Monday to Friday. They are looking for Drivers to work in a team of two once per month. They are also looking for Cooks / Vegetable preparers to join their team to provide healthy nutritious meals to housebound residents.
👫 Surrey Independent Visitor Service - What is an independent visitor? An adult who befriends and advise a child or young person in care who are looked after by Surrey County Council and live in foster care or residential homes, and takes them out once a month. They are not social workers or foster carers but volunteers. They would greatly welcome some new Independent Visitors to join their team. Open Evenings are to be held in 2024, dates to be confirmed. The introductory two day training course to become an Independent Visitor will be held around the same time (travel expenses paid).
☎️ Welcare East Surrey are based in Redhill and are a charity that works with local families, with children up to the age of 13. They are a busy and friendly center and run a selection of weekly groups for families and their under 5's. As a Receptionist Volunteer, you will sit on reception welcoming people and answering the phone amongst other things.
💻 Merstham Community Facility Trust (MCFT) are also looking for a Receptionist Volunteer to work with the public, signpost users, answer phones and general admin etc. MCFT work to improve social welfare, health, education, employment and the general quality of life of members of the local community. Based in the vibrant Merstham Hub, MCFT provides a safe, accessible space for individuals to receive inclusive access to provisions and opportunities.
