Help us achieve our aims and objectives as a Trustee!

Trustee / Committee volunteers needed for Parents and Children Together (PACT) in RG1

Our team is growing! We have fantastic opportunities to recruit trustees to join Parents And Children Together to support our work and help us drive our ambitions forward.

Our beneficiaries make up the wider PACT family and are supported through a number of community projects for individuals facing multiple disadvantages including domestic abuse, homelessness, debt and victims or perpetrators of crime. Our current projects include the Alana House women’s community programme and Bounce Back 4 Kids, a therapeutic domestic abuse recovery programme for families.
At PACT, we are ambitious about our service development, ensuring that we are responding to the needs of our beneficiaries. In recent years we have enhanced our service provision through developing innovative digital services providing support across the country with our successful online support platform: www.theadopterhub.org

Our trustees play a very important role here at PACT. They are responsible for governing PACT, providing strategic oversight of the charity’s operations and helping us to achieve our aims and objectives.

We are at an exciting phase of growth and now looking to bring new trustees to join our PACT family who are excited by the work we do. Building on our existing successes, we are keen to hear from individuals that bring different experiences, knowledge and ideas alongside a desire to develop their personal and/or professional skills in a team of experienced and dedicated Trustees, volunteers and staff.

As a community, we are committed to fostering inclusion and promoting diversity across all levels. Our Board is envisioned to be representative and supportive of the diversity of our current and prospective service users, volunteer community and our wider eco-system.

We welcome interest from individuals of all ages, backgrounds, cultures and levels of experience. In particular, we recognise that we are missing out on contributions from people from Black, Asian or other minority ethnic communities, people of different faiths, people living with a disability and people from LGBTQ+ communities.

We are particularly looking for individuals with:

  • skills in Finance to become our next Treasurer
  • a background in HR to ensure PACT continues to be a great place to work

The role of trustee is a voluntary position for which we pay reasonable expenses. The time commitment will be approximately a day per month made up of quarterly board meetings and time to input on other charity matters. The Board aims to offer flexibility and tries to accommodate personal availability wherever possible.

What would you get as a PACT trustee?

  • Satisfaction of helping vulnerable children, women and families, and thus giving something back
  • An opportunity to exercise your skills and knowledge, possibly in a different environment or context
  • A chance to contribute to the charity’s strategic growth
  • A chance to augment your experience of charities and gain new skills
  • A boost to your career and CV, if needed
  • An opportunity to work alongside other skilled and committed trustees
  • High-quality induction, training and support from us and other charity-support organisations
Contact person firstname
PACT
Lastname
HR
Contact person's position
HR
Their phone number?
0118 4021681
Location address line 1
7 Southern Court
Line 2
South Street
Town
Reading
County
Berkshire
Postcode
RG1 4QS

Map
Location description
Reading
Wheelchair accessible?
Not specified
Car parking for the volunteer?
Yes
Secure bicycle parking?
Yes
Near public transport?
Yes
How much time?
A few hours a month
What times and days of the week?
Mon AMMon PMTue AMTue PMWed AMWed PMThu AMThu PMFri AMFri PM
Availability required
Any of these times
Task type?
Trustee / Committee
Will suit someone like this:
Analytical thinkingPrecise and methodicalDecisiveBusiness orientatedLeaderNetworkerSupportiveCommunicator
Post suitable for supported volunteering?
Not specified
Is training given?
Yes
Is support given?
Yes
Are expenses paid?
Yes
Will I need my own transportation?
No
Will the volunteer be CRB or DBS checked?
Yes
Are references required?
Yes
Will there be an interview?
Yes
Are they properly insured?
Yes
Minimum age
18
Do they need a specific gender?
No
How many volunteers needed?
2
Opportunity added on
10 August 2021