Communications & Marketing Trustee - Volunteer

We are looking for the next Communications & Marketing Trustee to join our board and help lead the strategy, developing the core team to continue growing our support for young refugees across the UK.

What difference will you make?

How This Role Will Help Breadwinners

This role comes at a pivotal moment for Breadwinners.

As we grow our wholesale model and increase the number of young refugees we employ each year, our communications must do more than raise awareness — they must strengthen income, influence public narrative, and build long-term trust with customers, funders, and partners.

The Communications & Marketing Trustee will help us

• Develop a clear, confident, and values-led voice in an increasingly polarised media and political climate.
• Strengthen our brand positioning so that customers choose Breadwinners not only for high-quality organic products, but because they believe in our mission.
• Ensure young refugees’ voices are amplified ethically and meaningfully, shifting narratives from vulnerability to talent, contribution, and entrepreneurship.
• Align communications strategy with commercial growth, enabling us to expand wholesale partnerships and create more paid work opportunities.
• Protect and enhance our reputation as we scale.
  
  

Ultimately, stronger strategic communications directly translate into greater social impact. Increased sales mean more employment opportunities. Clearer storytelling means greater public understanding.

By joining our Board, the Trustee will not simply advise on marketing — they will help shape how young refugees are seen, heard, and valued in our communities.

Their contribution will influence both our Impact directly on young refugees accessing our programmes, and significantly influence the wider context of UK narratives towards refugees.

What are we looking for?

Ideal candidates attributes

• Passionate about supporting refugees and young people seeking asylum.
• Knowledge and experience of Communications and Marketing best practices for Charities and Social Enterprises.
• Expert Knowledge of Social Media, Branding, Website, Ads, PR.
• Experience in supporting the voices of young people.
• Strong Strategy thinking.
• Risk awareness (reputational risk, safeguarding in communications, ethical storytelling).
• Ability to communicate clearly, driving strategic conversations.
• Self-starter with commitment, motivation and drive to upskill as needed to support the charity.
• Capacity to support the Managing Director and team to deliver best-in-class Comms and Marketing for the organisation with a limited budget.
  
  

Hybrid

What will you be doing?

About Our Board And This Opportunity

Breadwinners’ Board brings together experience across social enterprise, finance, safeguarding, impact, and organisational development. As a growing charity and social enterprise based in East London, we are entering an exciting new phase of scale — expanding our wholesale model while strengthening our brand, impact measurement, and long-term sustainability.

Over the past eight years, Breadwinners has supported more than 797 young refugees into work, further education, or volunteering through our market stall and wholesale social enterprise model. We are proud of our grassroots origins at Victoria Park Market and the community that helped shape us. Now, as we grow our earned income and influence, we face new opportunities and challenges

• Strengthening and sharpening our brand positioning
• Growing wholesale and B2B partnerships
• Navigating an increasingly polarised media and political climate around migration
• Ensuring our communications reflect ethical storytelling and safeguarding best practice
• Aligning marketing investment with measurable commercial and social impact

Amplifying young refugees’ voices and helping shift dominant narratives toward one of contribution, talent, and opportunity

We are seeking a Communications & Marketing Trustee to play a key strategic role at this pivotal moment.

The successful candidate will

• Provide Board-level oversight of our communications and marketing strategy
• Offer constructive challenge and guidance to the Managing Director
• Support the development and Board approval of our annual Communications & Marketing Strategy
• Help ensure young people’s voices are meaningfully represented in our storytelling, strengthening participatory and dignity-led communications
• Guide the organisation in developing a confident, values-led voice in a polarised media environment
• Monitor reputational risk and brand positioning in a changing external climate
• Review key performance indicators and ensure communications are aligned with income growth and impact
  
  

The Trustee may be invited to chair or sit on a Communications or Growth subcommittee (subject to Board structure), helping to shape priorities between Board meetings.

This role is particularly exciting because communications at Breadwinners is not simply about visibility — it directly enables impact. Stronger positioning and brand clarity mean more wholesale customers, stronger partnerships, greater public trust, and ultimately more paid work opportunities for young refugees.

At a time when public discourse around migration is often divisive, this Trustee will help us champion young refugees as entrepreneurs, colleagues, and leaders — shaping a positive, evidence-based narrative that reflects their talent, resilience, and contribution to society.