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Opportunities

We currently have two vacancies. Please note, for both of these voluntary roles, we are looking for candidates with lived experience of homelessness. This is to enable us meaningfully embed lived experience in our governance, strategy, and decision making.

• St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity Trustee (click for full role description)
• Member of St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity’s Grants Committee (click for full role decription)

Opportunity to help and share your experience – join our Board of Trustees or Grants Committee

St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity works year-round and across the UK to tackle homelessness. We are working to ensure everyone has a safe place to call home.

We are looking to recruit a new Trustee and a new member of our Grants Committee to help us deliver our mission and work. We want to prioritise recruiting people with lived experience of homelessness to help strengthen, inform and diversify our Board and ultimately ensure we make the best decisions for those we exist to serve.

We believe that diversity of thought, background and experience leads to stronger governance and decision-making and better outcomes for people who are and have been affected by homelessness. 

We welcome people from a wide range of perspectives – there is no right or wrong candidate and you do not have to have been a Trustee before.  The ideal candidate will bring energy, enthusiasm and resilience to the role, with an eagerness to support the Charity and its work to tackle and prevent homelessness. In turn, we will provide a range of support to help you.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in, you can find out more through our online information sessions.

How you can find out more – Candidate information sessions (online)

Expert Link, with St Martin’s in the Field Charity, will be hosting two short online information sessions for anyone interested in applying. These sessions are informal and open, a chance to ask questions and get a feel for what being a Trustee with lived experience is like in practice. You do not need to have been a Trustee before to attend.

• We will cover what governance involves day to day, what to expect in meetings, and the support available. We’ll also talk about why lived experience is valued in trustee roles, and how the insight people bring translates into trustee strengths, for example asking grounded questions, spotting risks and unintended impacts early, bringing a strong focus on dignity and outcomes, and helping test whether plans will work in practice.
• Expert Link is a peer-led organisation that facilitates people with lived experience to influence change and helps organisations to meaningfully embed lived experience in governance, strategy, and decision making.
• These sessions will be held online via Zoom at 12pm on Thursday 5 March or Tuesday 10 March 
• Please email: shannon.johnstone@expertlink.org.uk for the details and to sign up.

How to Apply:

If you are interested in becoming a Trustee or a member of the Grants Committee (or both) please look at the role descriptions attached above. We ask you to submit:

• A CV detailing your skills and experience, including any work or voluntary activity you have undertaken (maximum two sides of A4)
• A short statement setting out (maximum one side of A4)
  • Why you think you would like to be a Trustee or a member of the Grants Committee (or either) of St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity
  • What you would seek to bring to the role, drawing on any experience personal, professional or other that you think is helpful and relevant – please refer to the “Who we are looking for – Person Specification” sections in the role descriptions above to help you
  • Any support you might like to enable you to best fulfil the role of a Trustee.

You can do this in writing or we would be happy to accept a video application covering your responses to the same questions (maximum 5 minutes please)

Please submit your application to info@stmartinscharity.org.uk by 10am on Monday 23^rd March.

We look forward to hearing from you!