Trustee

Our Trustees steer and support Young Barnet Foundation to achieve its objectives. As a Trustee, you will act as an ambassador for YBF.

I am delighted to invite applications to join Young Barnet Foundation’s Board of Trustees. If you are passionate about creating opportunities for children and young people to thrive, please consider applying. You will be joining an organisation that exemplifies Generous Leadership: encouraging members, partners and residents to work together for the greater good. This approach has seen YBF thrive since we were founded in 2015.

YBF’s incredible team brought the community sector together to respond quickly and effectively to the impact of Covid-19. We are now at an exciting point where the organisation is building strong strategic relationships with partners in the borough through Barnet Together. Over the next three years we will be delivering projects to build our members’ capacity; raising more money for the sector locally; doing work to help us communicate more effectively about our own and our members’ impact, and developing projects which bring our members together with our partners to address the issues we know children and young people in the borough are facing: from holiday hunger, to mental health, to loneliness. 

You will be expected to attend Trustee meetings every other month (having read the papers beforehand) to join our operational or sub-committee meetings (currently every other month) and support the YBF team to deliver particular pieces of work relevant to your expertise. Being a Trustee means you are legally responsible for ensuring that YBF is run properly.

We are looking for four new Trustees and are particularly interested in candidates with the following:

• Experience of working within a HR environment;
• A financial background, with the expertise to become our treasurer;
• Fundraising knowledge, especially community fundraising, corporate fundraising and/ or fundraising from trusts and foundations;
• The skills and passion to become the Secretariat of the Board (keeping accurate minutes, papers and actions), this is a great introduction for someone wanting to find out more about being a Trustee

We hope that all Trustees will have:

• Local connections within Barnet – with local businesses, schools, faith groups, local government & councillors;
• Experience of the youth sector, as a service user, volunteer or employee.