An exciting opportunity exists at British Gymnastics Foundation for new Independent Trustee who can offer guidance, support, expertise and an objective perspective on the key matters of Commercial & Sponsorship.
In order to expand and compliment the highly skilled existing Board, British Gymnastics Foundation is looking for a leader, with a myriad of experiences across either business, sport or both. We have ambitions to support next generation leaders, so although helpful, previous Board experience is not essential for the role; and we have a good induction process to support all new Board members.
Growing our Impact.
The past 12 months has seen the British Gymnastics Foundation grow its impact, with an increase in the number of people supported within our public benefit programmes. Most notably, the Foundation’s Love to Move programme, which is an age and dementia friendly chair-based gymnastics programme, delivered all over the UK to benefit the most vulnerable older people in our communities. Love to Move now has over 960 trained deliverers.
The Foundation’s Hardship Grants programme has also awarded £395,725, saving 1,182 individuals from dropping out of the sport they love due to significant financial hardship.
Your experience.
If you have experience at Director or Senior Management level, British Gymnastics Foundation would like to encourage you to apply for this position which, will require an investment of time annually of approximately 4 – 8 days to help British Gymnastics Foundation deliver a Strategic Plan that will build on our successes and further develop the charity; helping us to reach out to more people who are most in need, transforming their lives through gymnastics. To complement our current Trustee skills, we are ideally looking for candidates with commercial acumen and expertise in attracting and developing commercial sponsorship. A working knowledge and experience of environmental sustainability would also be advantageous.
Representation matters to us.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups, as we value the importance of diversity and inclusion. We encourage disabled people and those with long-term health conditions to apply. Your lived experiences will immeasurably enrich our strategic discussions.
British Gymnastics Foundation is committed to equal opportunities and aims to provide a discrimination-free environment for staff, volunteers and everyone involved in our work. We are committed to policy and working practices which are in line with the Equality Act 2010; and we warmly welcome the opportunity of working with a diverse range of people in all that we do. We are very proud to have advanced the inclusion, equality and diversity agendas through the work of our programmes to date; and this work has been recognised as contributing to the achievement of the Advanced Level of the Equality Standard for Sport, for British Gymnastics & the British Gymnastics Foundation.
Our Board meetings take place four times per year in March, June, September and December. If any candidates have accessibility requirements, we are committed to doing what is needed to ensure that they can participate in every aspect of our Board.
To apply for this exciting and challenging opportunity, please send a CV and covering letter to:
Patrick Bonner, Head of British Gymnastics Foundation
E-mail: [email protected]
If you would like to have an exploratory conversation regarding the role,
please email us and we will be happy to arrange a discussion with you.