Trustee Board Member Role

Trustee Board Member

Join Sport 4 Life UK as a trustee and help change young lives.

We are seeking passionate and committed individuals to join our Board of Trustees. As a trustee, you will play a crucial role in shaping our strategic direction, ensuring good governance, and safeguarding the financial health of the organisation. You will work alongside a team that is dedicated to changing lives and making a tangible impact on young people across the West Midlands.

You don’t need prior trustee experience—just a passion for making a difference and a commitment to our mission. We are particularly interested in individuals with expertise in:

Legal and governance
Fundraising and income generation
HR and people development

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Role summary

Contract type

Voluntary

Number of vacancies

Length of term

3 years

Application deadline

Midnight 18th May 2025

Interview date

26th May – 13th June 2025

Induction period

July

Role description

Board Member

Each of our board members is jointly and severally responsible for the overall governance and strategic direction of the charity and financial health, probity of its activities, developing the organisation’s aims, objectives and goals in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association, legal and regulatory guidelines. All Board Members should be aware of and understand their individual and collective responsibilities and should not be overly reliant on one or more members in any particular aspect of the governance of the charity.

Our main responsibilities are:

To promote the vision, mission and values of the organisation.
To ensure that the charity and its representatives function within all legal and regulatory requirements applicable, and in line with the Memorandum and Articles of Association, continually striving for best practice in governance.
To maintain the fiduciary duty invested in the position, undertaking such duties in a way that adds to public confidence and trust in the charity.
To take appropriate professional advice in all matters where there may be a material risk to the charity, or where the members may be in breach of their duties.
To determine the overall direction and development of the charity through good governance and clear strategic planning.
To avoid any personal conflict of interest.
To manage and use the resources of the charity so as to optimise its potential.
To ensure robust systems are in place for internal financial control and protection of the charity’s funds and assets.
To undergo a thorough induction upon appointment, and ongoing training to remain alert to, and aware of, our duties and responsibilities, and of the environment in which we operate.
To achieve the purpose of the charity and to pursue the charitable objects, and provide public benefit.

Our main duties are:

Ensuring the charity complies with legislative and regulatory requirements and acts within the confines of the Memorandum and Articles of Association and in the furtherance of its charitable objects.
Acting in the best interest of the charity, beneficiaries and future beneficiaries.
Promoting and developing the charity to help it grow and maintain its public benefit, recognising that there may be a situation when it is more appropriate to wind the charity up, where there is no longer a need for its services or because the charitable objects are no longer relevant to contemporary social situations.
Maintaining sound financial management and control of the charities resources.
Ensuring a fully effective and appropriate system for the recruitment, appointment and monitoring of the work and activities for the CEO and the members of the senior management team.
Ensuring the effective and efficient administration of the charity and its resources, striving for best practice in good governance.
Maintaining absolute confidentiality about all aspects of trustees’ business.

Person Specification

General

Understanding of Sport 4 Life UK’s operating environment and the key governance requirements for board members

Strategic Leadership

Ability to analyse the environment, set and prioritise objectives
Ability to make own views known and make decision in a group environment and in line with strategic objectives

Communication

Ability to listen intently, carefully and objectively
Ability to convey ideas, information and opinion clearly and concisely

Teamworking

Respects the roles of other board members, the CEO and key stakeholders
Ability to challenge the views of others appropriately
Ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders

We recognise the importance of diversity within our teams and are fully committed to embracing and maximising talents. See also our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement. We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments, where possible, to recruitment, workplaces and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, please contact us.

How to apply

To apply for this role you need to complete the online application form below. You will also need to upload the following documents:

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