Board Member Trustee

Closing date: 26th September 2025    

Preliminary interviews: Thursday 2nd October 2025, via MS Teams    

Final Panel interviews: 17 October 2025, in person and venue TBC  

It’s an exciting time to be joining the Trust as one of our Board Members!   

This is a great opportunity to play a key role in our future development as a leading social and green care provider. We support adults with learning disabilities, autism, mental health support needs, within magical rural and urban community settings. We are now looking for someone who brings a strong background in unlocking growth opportunities and in long term financial planning and modelling. You will complement the skills, abilities and lived experiences of our Board members, and like all of our Trustee’s, you will bring  a real passion for social and health care, respecting the unique relationship between people and nature.   

We are seeking a Trustee to sit on our Board and to also be an active member of our Audit and Risk Committee.  

We're looking for those who can work constructively with the Chair, other Board members and staff of Camphill Village Trust to support the good governance of the Trust, ensuring that the purpose of the Trust is fulfilled, that it is well managed and financially viable and that it works within the requirements of the law, regulation and its funders. You'll support the Trust to realise its vision and strategic objectives.  

Main responsibilities:   

• Support the delivery of the Corporate Strategy ensuring that the purpose and long-term strategic direction of the Trust is formulated and regularly reviewed.   

• Drive high performance management in governance, setting standards to ensure a high quality service is delivered through a culture of co-production with the people we support, enabling the delivery of the Trust’s vision and key objectives.   

• Establish sound constructive working relationships with the Chief Executive and Directors and a supportive partnership with staff, people we support and their families and carers across the Charity. 

• Actively support the Charity in its fundraising goals  

Our Charity creates thriving communities that enable friendships, independence, creativity and meaningful work opportunities. You will demonstrate a deep commitment to our ethos and insights into the lived experience of those that we support, ensuring that the Charity can demonstrate the impact and outcome of a Life of Opportunity. You will have strong financial acumen and may well have operated at strategic level supporting growth alongside long term financial planning and modelling.  

What you’ll bring to the role    

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who brings a strong background in unlocking growth opportunities and in long term financial planning and modelling and a real passion for supporting social care and health operations, in particular learning disability and autism services.     

You will be passionate to be part of a Charity with a track record in delivering high quality, co-produced health and social care services, who can support our team to deliver great quality outcomes for all of those we support. Your ability to think creatively and innovatively about how we continue to deliver exceptional impact on the lives of those in our communities and their families will be an invaluable asset to us.        

First time Trustees will be considered and supported if appointed.  

Key experience, skills and attributes required:  

·                Senior level experience in a non-executive or executive capacity; ideally has either reported to or been on the Board of Trustees of a charity or similar not for profit organisation.   

·                Lived experience and/or Insight into the issues and opportunities that face adults with a wide range of support needs. Ideally, to have relevant, lived experience aligned to the Charity purpose/ the people we support.  

·                Proven track record at contributing effectively to the leadership and development of an organisation.  

·                Sound understanding of good governance, in particular of reporting and monitoring at a governance level.  

·                Understanding of the regulatory and compliance requirements in the sector.   

·                An effective communicator, emotionally intelligent and self-aware.    

In return we will offer you a stimulating and collegiate Board environment with high quality colleagues who are engaged and committed to delivering co-produced person centred support. We are a well led organisation, and you will enjoy a Board culture which is in tune with our values and aligned with our practice. If this sounds like a role for you, and you’d like to find out more, please do get in touch.  

Location & Travel - Remote based  

The Trust holds Board and Committee meetings and other events, both in person at our various communities and virtually via Teams. Trustees are expected to attend meetings and events held in person. In addition, we encourage Trustees to visit our communities outside of scheduled meetings / events. The Trust’s nine communities are located in Yorkshire, Middlesbrough, Stourbridge, Gloucestershire and Hertfordshire. Access to the main travel corridors of the M25, M40, M1 and M6 would be required    

We encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly those underrepresented within our board. If you require any reasonable adjustment to the process due to disabilities, please let us know.     

Excited? Read our pack, look at our strategy and know that you would be joining an amazing Trust, a brilliant team and that you would have the ability to make a real difference.     

Established in 1954, Camphill Village Trust is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health challenges. In our 70th year we honour our past, provide for the present and will lead the future. 

Our focus on humanity and nature was inspired by our past and remains as key to the Trust’s ethos today. This is reflected in our focus on social and green care integration, valuing everyone’s contribution, enabling personal pathways to development, celebrating the changing seasons, and respecting the rhythm of natural life.

We operate in both rural and urban communities, building on our care (social) farming legacy. Our historical focus on enabling potential for people with support needs through farming, organic horticulture and enterprise centred on nature and traditional skills, continues to play to our strengths.