Volunteer as a Trustee
Many voluntary organisations are desperately in need of trustees. Can you help?
If you have a passion and an interest in the aims of any of the organisations listed and you have experience in management, business, finance, HR, legal or marketing, please get in touch with the organisation you are interested in. Please use the direct contact details for each specific organisation.
If your organisation would like to appear on this list, please contact Alan Crawford at BVSC, email alanc@bvsc.org
Organisations Needing Trustees
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Name |
Organisational Background |
Positions Available |
Contact |
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Council of Black Led Churches |
Council of Black Led Churches is a strategic agency serving the church and the wider community |
Board member |
Sharon Pennant |
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Heart Research Uk |
Heart Research UK (Midlands) is a visionary charity leading the way in funding ground-breaking, innovative medical research projects into the prevention, treatment and cure of heart disease. We also encourage and support healthy lifestyle initiatives that explore many ways of preventing the causes of heart disease throughout the community and promote medical research into heart disease and related disorders. |
Board Member |
Lee House |
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Cadbury Atheletic FC |
Progresses young people into adult football and level 1 coaching. |
Board Member |
Les W Healey |
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Sound It Out Music |
Sound it Out is the regional community music development agency for the West Midlands. We are Birmingham based and provide music making opportunities to individuals and communities throughout the region, although predominantly within Birmingham. The organisation develops music making opportunities in four key sectors - Health, Inclusion, Training & Development and Youth |
Board Member |
Matthew Daniels |
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Birmingham Focus on Blindness |
Our services include Low Vision Assessment, information and advice, living aids, rehabilitation, volunteer support, multiple disability work. |
Board Member |
Vicky Bullett |
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Cruse Bereavement Care |
Cruse Bereavement Care exists to promote the well - being of bereaved people and to enable anyone suffering bereavement caused by death to understand their grief and pain and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people. The charity provides support and offers information, advice, education and training services |
Chair |
Paula Backen (chair) |
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Shenley Field Pre-School |
Provides top-quality care for children aged 2-8 years at an affordable price that their parents may not otherwise be able to afford, including breakfast club, preschool, after-school club, holiday club. |
Board Member |
The Annex, |
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BRAP |
Brap are Birmingham's leading Equalities charity. While 'race' equality remains central to what we do, Brap has for some years now been working to actively extend the boundaries of equalities work and in particular is interested in the potential for cross strand 'equalites' working and human rights approaches to equalities. We aim to help people, communities and organisations that serve them to turn equalities into reality. |
Board Member |
Asif Afridi |
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Good Hope Hospital |
We are a NHS Foundation Trust |
Board Member |
Mona Campbell |
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Health Forum Member |
Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) forums. PPI Forums are groups of volunteers who have legal powers to monitor the NHS with the aim of improving services for the local community. |
Board Member |
7th Floor, |
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Mobility Advice Line |
Help alleviate the suffering and distress of people with disabilities, their families and carers by the provision of advice through a combined telephone, email and web-based service. |
Board Member |
Duncan White |
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AB Plus |
ABPlus is a support group organised by people for people infected and affected by the HIV virus. We offer counselling and peer support to those living and suffering deprivation and exclusion from society (inc. employment) due to their health status and disabilities. This support extends to partners, close family and friends. |
Board Member |
29/30 Lower Essex Street |
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4 Kids Who Care |
We provide a city-wide service to young carers aged 4-17 years who have a significant role within their family unit. They may be caring for a parent or sibling with an illness, disability, mental health problem or issues around drug /alcohol use. We offer young carer activity groups where young carers get the chance to have fun, meet people they can talk to and be put in touch with any specialist support they need. We can organise a one-to-one worker for those carers with higher needs. We make sure that care-receivers are receiving the services they need. We will support families to develop emergency plans specific to their circumstances. We offer family group conferences to make plans for some of the young carers. |
Board Member |
Isabelle Daniels |
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School Governors One Stop Shop |
Recruiting Governor's with management skills for schools that need them most |
School Governor |
Unit 11 Shepperton House |
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The Fields Millenium Green Trust |
Raises funds to ensure its maintenance and organises community events there |
Board Member |
Margaret Sweet |
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Brumcan |
Brumcan was established in 1991 by Friends of the Earth and CSV (Community Service Volunteers). Brumcan works with local schools and community groups to increase recycling in the city and set up its commercial operation Brumcan Recycling Limited (BRL) to help fund these projects through office recycling services. |
Board Member |
Web: www.brumcan.co.uk |
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Shenley Green Centre |
To cater for the social, recreational, educational and welfare needs of the community and residents in the neighbourhood, enabling them to develop individually and collectively and improving their quality of life. |
1. Company Secretary 2. Someone with legal background 3. Someone with finance expertise |
Ian McCardle |
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Change Birmingham Brief Therapy |
CHANGE Birmingham Brief Therapy has been in existence as a charitable agency since 1993; we provide a confidential counselling service. We were the first voluntary agency in the UK to specialise in Solution-Focussed Brief Therapy Counselling. Change aims to relieve persons suffering from emotional or psychological problems, in particular by the provision of solution focus brief therapy counselling service, and to advance the education and training in the practice and use of that therapy amongst it's counsellors and the general public. |
Treasurer |
Donna Bowes-McLeggan |
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Warstock Community Centre |
We are a community centre, so we serve our local community; we have local hobby groups that meet at the centre (Line dance, Dark Horse, Photographic group, Art Class, Dance groups, Dosti group, Good companions, Local Councillors advice bureau, Luncheon clubs, Neighborhood Tasks (Police) Rainbows, Woman and Essence (Sure start), we help run NRF projects, we run Education courses Food Hygiene we are also popular venue for parties and we are trying to expand the centre to have a stage area in our main hall. |
Treaurer/Secretary |
Graham Proffitt |
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BVSC |
We provide information, advice, and guidance to voluntary and community organisations. This includes promoting volunteering and active citizenship by finding individuals appropriate voluntary work, and helping organisations to identify and support volunteers. In addition, we support public and private sector organisations in their efforts to engage effectively with the third sector. |
Treasurer |
Jasbir RaiCorporate Services and Finance Director |
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Mothers In Pain |
The 'Mothers in Pain' group started when two parents were struck by tragedy; one being fatal. The two mothers - Thelma Perkins and Barbara Sawyers, found they had no-one to turn to who would be culturally understanding of their wants and needs; so set about trying to bridge that gap within the afro -Caribbean and wider community. The idea was born to set up an organisation to support mothers who were going through the pain of losing a child or who had suffered near death experiences and to support those brothers and sisters left behind to deal with bereavement, feelings and fears for their future, and to reach out to the extended families that are often forgotten. The organisation has now been in operation since May 2004. |
Chair, Treasurer, Secretary |
Thelma Perkins |
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Inheritance Project |
An ongoing project concerned with the exploration, celebration, and support of the mixed race community, |
Various Board Roles |
Tracey O'loughlin |
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South West B’ham Community Association |
Representation - to enable effective and accountable representation of the voluntary/community sector in the South West area of Birmingham. Liaison - to encourage networking and enable the South West Voluntary/community sector to share knowledge, information and skills. Our mission is to support small local voluntary and community organisations to develop so that they can serve their community effectively and efficiently. |
Board Member inc Treasurer |
Carole Lowe |
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Community Integration Partnership |
Community Integration Partnership (CIP) was established in September 2002. Our aim is to see women achieve their full potential. We work specifically with refugee and ‘newly arrived’ women and their children, to build skills, knowledge and confidence to ultimately progress into employment. |
Board Member with Financial Skills |
Shain Akhtar |
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Angling Unlimited (Get Hooked on Fishing Midlands) |
Angling Unlimited is the trading name for Get Hooked on Fishing Midlands a Charity which has developed a number of programmes which uses the ‘tool’ of angling (fishing) to help people of all ages. For example: 1. Get Hooked programme: a diversionary scheme for young people ‘at risk’ and has seen a 98.5 success rate of non-reoffending. 2. Totally Hooked programme: a therapeutic scheme to help adults & the elderly recovering from Strokes, brain injuries, bereavement, depression, etc by providing indoor & outdoor angling experiences. 3. Education Action Zone: an indoor angling education programme to help young people with numeracy, literacy, Geography and science. 4. Angling related Open College Network course: used to re-engage young people with education. 5. Volunteers Programme: aimed mainly at unemployed adults and provides new skills, an NVQ qualification in Sports Leadership in Coaching, greater self-confidence and employable skills. 6. Peer Coaching programme: for young people to be trained as Peer angling coaches. |
Chair & Board members |
Andy Walker (0121) 475 2288 |
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ENTA |
Enta CIC is a not-for-personal-profit organisation that has been working across Birmingham since 1977 providing learning opportunities, training and guidance to help people overcome barriers to learning and prepare for paid employment. Enta employs 65 full and part time staff, has a turnover of £2.5million and operates from 5 sites in Birmingham. The organisation is about to move its headquarters and training centre into newly refurbished premises on the edge of the city centre and has just successfully bid for an important Working Neighbourhood Fund contract to provide back to work support for unemployed people in Erdington ward. Enta also runs a range of social enterprises and the Lakeside Children’s and Family Learning Centre, Kingstanding. |
Board Members |
Please contact Kevin Hayes, Enta CEO for a Job Description and further information. Tel 0121 200 1096 or email info@entapeople.com or visit www.entapeople.com/vacancies.aspx |
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Birmingham Tribunal Unit |
BTU is voluntary organisation and registered charity which provides free advice and representation at appeals relating to welfare matters for those living in Birmingham. In addition we provided accredited welfare rights training to advisors both locally and nationally. |
Board Members who live or work in Birmingham who have an interest in poverty and welfare rights and have experience in either social welfare law, finance, management, or fundraising. |
Maxine Reid
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Communisave |
CommuniSave (South Birmingham Community Credit Union) is the Community Credit Union for anyone living or working in South/South West Birmingham. It is managed by volunteers and is community based with a core purpose of providing a speedy, simple and secure service for local people who wish to manage their personal finances by regular saving and responsible borrowing. CommuniSave operates through our own shop and office at the centre of the Common Bond, and through Service Points situated strategically across the Common Bond. |
We are looking for professional, retired, semi-retired individuals or people with lots of enthusiasm that have a few hours a month available to help carry on the work of the Credit Union. Ideally you would have experience in: Finance, Governance, Marketing, Management issues, leadership & partnership working. |
Contact |
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Parkfield AFC |
Parkfield AFC is a local amateur chartered standard football club (Parkfield A FC) based in Sutton Coldfield. We are in the process of developing the club, which for 80 years was a solely an adults team club, into one that also has a youth development programme. Over the last three years we have established three junior teams and have successfully been awarded £30,000 for an extension to our changing rooms. |
Chair, Honorary Secretary |
Craig Edmondson craig@parkfieldafc.co.uk or on 07946 819787 |
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Perry Beaches Swimming Club |
We are a swimming club based in North Birmingham. Please visits www.perrybeechesswimming.co.uk for more information. |
Treasurer |
Mandy Blizard, MBlizard@unistrut.com |
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St Pauls CDT |
St. Paul’s Community Development Trust was initially established in 1979 as a charitable group to create a better future for the local community in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. Since then it has grown into a complex social enterprise providing a range of community education and development services. As well as serving the general community, the Trust specialises in working with, and benefiting, people that public sector organisations often find hard to reach, support or relate to, such as excluded pupils. It also specialises in providing difficult services such as extended hours childcare. Some of the Trust's services are delivered on behalf of Birmingham City Council, Connexions, Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust, the Learning and Skills Council and the National Probation Service. |
None specific |
Marion Ridsdill 0121 464 4376 |