Volunteer Trustees

What will you be doing?

Longfield provides a range of services to people living with life limiting conditions, terminal diagnoses or with a need for end of life care, alongside supporting their families, carers and loved ones.  As a trustee you will play a crucial role in shaping our strategic direction, ensuring that our services remain responsive and effective. This includes, 

Ensuring we have a clear vision, mission and strategic direction and are focused on achieving them. Having clear oversight of organisational performance. Supporting the development of a healthy organisational culture.  Ensuring all legal and regulatory compliance. Ensuring organisational governance is maintained to the highest possible standard. 

Time commitment The board meets every quarter, as do each of our committees. Meetings take place both online and face to face and last approx. 2 hours. Time commitment is meeting attendance, time before meetings to read papers and occasional ad hoc discussions, strategy and planning sessions or events.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for people with experience of one or more of the following,

Enterprise & business development: Entrepreneurial and innovative with business expertise and income generation experience. Insights into commercial activities such as repurposing facilities or partnering with other providers, to maximize the use of resources for long-term sustainability. Fundraising & Income Generation: Broad understanding of income generation, particularly in engaging major donors and corporate partners, with a strong focus on diversifying income streams for financial sustainability.  Retail: Commercial or charity retail experience, with a genuine interest in sustainable practices. IT: Strategic guidance on maximizing  effective use of IT, driving IT innovation and ensuring strong cybersecurity measures across the charity. Finance: Finance background with experience in managing or being part of a finance team. 

What difference will you make?

Our services are needed now more than ever -  are you eager to make a real impact? It’s an exciting time to join the board at Longfield as our new five-year strategy will formally launch in April next year. We're focused on evolving, developing, and growing to reach more patients, with the goal of becoming a recognized centre of excellence in our field. Innovation will be at the heart of our approach, and we invite you to be part of this transformative journey.