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Manchester, England, United Kingdom

7/24/2025

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Trustee

LGBT Foundation is governed by a board of trustees who also serve as directors of the company. Our various arrangements for governance are brought together in one place within our governance manual, which is reviewed on a bi-annual basis, and amended as and when applicable. This helps to ensure we remain responsible, robust and resilient.

The board of LGBT Foundation is the first and last decision-making mechanism of the charity and trustees also constitute the membership of the charity. The board has several mechanisms in place to consult with key stakeholders, (such as staff, volunteers and service users), to inform our work and decision-making.

All new trustees are required to undertake an induction programme, including the provision of an extensive induction pack, staff presentations, and peer mentoring as desired. Trustee training needs are assessed, and a programme of internal and external training arranged on an annual basis to meet these needs.

Trustees are not remunerated, but reasonable expenses to attend meetings can be claimed.

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Key Information

Closing Date: 9am, Wednesday 10th September 2025

Interview Dates: Between Wednesday 24th September and Wednesday 1st October 2025

New Trustees will be confirmed at our Annual General Meeting on Saturday 18 October 2025.

About The Role

Trustees are ultimately accountable for the organisation and their governance responsibilities include:

• Setting and maintaining vision, mission, and values
• Developing strategy together with the CEO
• Ensuring suitable policies and documents exist
• Ensuring compliance with the law, the governing document and charitable objects
• Maintaining proper financial oversight
• Maintaining effective board performance including board appraisals
• Promoting the organisation and protecting its reputation
• Recruiting and supporting the CEO
  
  

Role Accountabilities

Trustees are expected to contribute around 8 hours per month, including:

• Quarterly Board meetings (usually on a Saturday, occasionally a weeknight evening, in person)
• Annual AGM (quarterly preceding October’s Board meeting, in person)
• Service on 2 standing committees (4-6 times per year, remotely, weeknight evenings)
• Participation in selected events, learning, or campaigns
  
  

Trustees need to allow enough time to prepare for meetings by reading the paperwork, and doing any other preparatory reading, research or thinking to fully engage and contribute to robust discussion and decision-making.

To support the work of our board, we have three committees. These are:

Fundraising & Marketing Committee – maintains an overview of strategic fundraising, marketing, and communications.

Finance, Audit, Risk & Governance Committee – maintains a scrutiny and review role to ensure effective financial, people and systems management and ensuring that effective governance structures are in place across the 6organisation.

People, Performance & Resources Committee – maintains an overview of project, people and programme performance, ensuring that (i) quality is maintained and/or increased; (ii) set targets are achieved; and (iii) ideas for innovation are explored.

Person Specification

We seek trustees who offer a blend of technical expertise, values-driven motivation, and community alignment.

Personal Attributes

• Commitment to and deep resonance with LGBT Foundation’s mission and values
• Strong commitment to championing equality, inclusion and human rights
• Commitment to the values of accountability, probity, openness and equality of opportunity
• Ability to listen sensitively to the views of others
• Willingness to challenge and question
• Ability to work as an effective member of the board, of whose members are equally and jointly responsible for its decisions
• Clear understanding of the responsibilities of a trustee and sufficient time/commitment to fulfil the role
  
  

While the trustees are not the day-to-day executive team for LGBT Foundation, similar professional skills and experiences are required, such as finance, HR, communications, fundraising, representation and networking across the private, voluntary and public sectors.

To complement the existing skills and experience of the Board, we are particularly looking for applicants with experience in:

• Financial management, audit, risk and procurement
• Fundraising
• Legal and regulatory expertise (charity, employment, governance)
• HR, organisational culture, and inclusive leadership
• AI and technology
  
  

LGBT Foundation actively seeks to maintain a diverse board representative of the communities we serve. We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other racially minoritised communities, trans*, non-binary, younger (aged 30 and under) and/or older people (aged 50+), disabled people, and people with experience of navigating asylum or refugee systems, to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities on our board.

• Trans is an umbrella & inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross-dressers, and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.
  
  

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