Trustees

Trustees

Glasspool Charity Trust

Location: UK-wide, quarterly meetings in London

Salary: Voluntary (unpaid)

Opportunities:

We are excited to be recruiting two new trustees to join our committed team at Glasspool.

We have been making a meaningful difference to the lives of individuals and families facing financial difficulties since 1939. We focus on alleviating immediate financial pressures through grants to frontline service delivery organisations, to help people across the UK navigate challenging times with dignity and a renewed sense of hope.

We are looking for one new trustee with investment management experience, and one new trustee with senior experience in the voluntary sector. We particularly welcome applications from younger people, disabled people, and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, as these groups are under-represented on our board.

Key Responsibilities:

At Glasspool you will be expected to work collaboratively with your colleagues on the trustee board to:

• Provide strategic direction, setting overall policy, defining goals, setting targets and evaluating performance for Glasspool
• Ensure that we use our resources (including our investments) appropriately to achieve our purpose, ensure our financial stability and grow our impact
• Ensure that Glasspool fulfils its objectives as effectively and efficiently as possible, in accordance with our governing documents and charity and company law.
• Adopt a balanced approach to risk that protects us, but does not hold us back from developing
• Safeguard our reputation and live our values
• Appoint and support the Chief Executive Officer and monitor their performance
• Use your specific skills, knowledge and lived, learned and practiced experience to help us reach sound decisions.

Expected commitment:

We currently have eight trustees who meet face to face four times a year (once every quarter) in London. Papers are provided electronically and we expect you to review them carefully and ask any questions you might have before the meetings. There are also three sub-committees (Finance, Grants and HR) who meet remotely four times a year, and you will join at least one of these. Appointed for a five-year term, trustees can currently serve up to three terms if they choose to. Although this role is unpaid, we reimburse travel and other expenses.

Skills and experience:

This year we are specifically looking for people with either:

1. Experience of managing investments, including asset allocation or fund selection (fixed income, multi-asset or alternatives), in line with an agreed policy and balancing financial returns with risk, liquidity needs and ethical considerations to support Glasspool's long-term mission; or
2. Experience of working in or managing front line service delivery charities, ideally in the advice or poverty relief sectors, including managing grant funding - or experience as a participatory grant-maker working with service delivery charities.

As well as this specific expertise, we also want to appoint rounded candidates who:

• Bring a variety of experiences, expertise and perspectives to our existing trustee group
• Are passionate, enthusiastic and enjoy building relationships with others.
• Are willing to share their views and respect the views of others, even if they have different ideas and opinions.
• Have an understanding or willingness to learn about the legal duties and responsibilities of trustees.
• Are able to work effectively as a member of a small team and make decisions for the good of the charity.
• Will actively promote our purpose, values and strategy.
• Will understand the need for, and will actively demonstrate, confidentiality.
• Are comfortable in the use of IT including video conferencing.
• Can be relied on to give the time and commitment needed to carry out the role.

Further information

Full application details are provided in the attached trustee information pack. Please send your CV with a covering letter via the button below, addressing the following questions:

1. Why are you interested in becoming a trustee with us?
2. What skills, knowledge or experience would you bring?
3. How do you meet the personal qualities outlined above?

Please also confirm that you are eligible to be a trustee under Charity Commission guidance.

If you'd like to have an informal chat to find out a bit more, please contact Rachael Badger, Chief Executive Officer by an email.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 3rd May 2026.

Interviews with a recruitment panel made up of existing trustees will take place w/c 1st June 2026.

Successful candidates may be appointed as Board Observers for a short period until a trustee vacancy arises.