Volunteer Join Mimbre’s Board 2025

What will you be doing?

Mimbre’s Board of Trustees provide oversight and strategic direction to the organisation. The number of Trustees at any one time varies between five and nine people, and we always seek to have a mix of different kinds of people to get different views. Additionally: 

Mimbre’s Board of Trustees are also its Directors under company law and have ultimate responsibility for the direction and governance of the organisation, although day-to-day management is delegated to the Artistic and Executive Directors.  Trustees are appointed for a term of three years, and can be reappointed just once to a maximum of six years.  Mimbre’s Trustees are volunteers and typically do not receive payment for their time, although travel and accommodation expenses for Board meetings will be reimbursed. However, if not receiving payment for your time is a barrier to you becoming a Trustee, let us know, as it is possible to make exceptions.  All Trustees must make a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of the young people that Mimbre work with.  We ask each board member to contribute financially during the year to the charity – this can be as little as £1, but means that we can say in our annual report that everyone contributes.  We offer training and a buddy system to make sure that new Trustees feel supported. 

The Board meets four times a year in east or central London and over Zoom, and in addition the Trustees are asked to offer some specific advice, networking or help in their areas of expertise outside of these meetings. Once a year, to coincide with a board meeting, the board also attend a half day ‘away day’ to discuss Mimbre’s strategy in more depth. Mimbre also encourages Board members to attend local performances and events.

What are we looking for?

We’d love to speak to anyone with an interest in the arts and/or supporting young people, who’s willing to give up some of their time to support our organisation. We’re looking for trustworthy, positive, helpful people who are able to be critical when necessary but who will also help us improve. You don’t need to have any experience of being on a Board.  At the moment, to make sure our Board covers a range of skills, we’re interested in new Trustees with experience in Outdoor Arts, circus, and producing & touring. But also, as our board members rotate regularly, we are continually looking for new people, so if you have other skills and experience that you’d like to contribute to our company we’d love to hear from you now as well.  Mimbre strongly believes in diversity and to make our board more representative we would really like to encourage applications from people who identify as disabled, people from the global majority (black, Asian or other minority ethnic backgrounds) and people who are working class.

What difference will you make?

Mimbre's board offers invaluable oversight and strategic direction to the organisation and help us to strive for excellence and inclusion to exist hand-in-hand. In all our work we want to support people from under-represented groups as artists, creators, audiences and participants and you can help us do that.