Important to remember

This role is voluntary and unpaid. Reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.

If you have no experience, don’t worry!  We will provide buddy support, training and development for you in the role of trustee.  We don’t expect you to be experts.  We can teach you how organisations operate.

We would also love to attract experienced candidates who are familiar with Arts Council England’s governance requirements, with a good knowledge of its Let’s Create strategy and policies, or candidates with experience of being on the board of another National Portfolio Organisation.

Passion matters more than experience. We are seeking passionate, engaged and willing-to-learn people who may be at the start of their creative careers and would benefit from finding out just how the arts and creative industries work from the inside.

This voluntary advisory role is for both disabled and non-disabled applicants.  The role is about scrutiny, not programming or production, so the Trustee roles are governance, not operational.  Your role as Trustee is about holding the Executive team to account and interrogating strategies, as well as bringing wider advice, lived experiences, reflections on the world, professional expertise and opinions and so on, to the board.

If you want to apply but certain things are not clear, please feel free to ask for an informal chat with other board members before you apply, where we can match up your skills/expertise with the relevant board members too.

Your time commitment: half a day every three months where you will be learning about the UK arts industry and join us on an exciting journey!