Trustees for financial hardship charity - Volunteer

Trustees for financial hardship charity – Volunteer

Join to apply for the Trustee role at Independent Age.

We are seeking trustees with the following skills, to help us end poverty for older people across the UK.

• Fundraising
• Brand / marketing / engagement
• Business development / transformation / innovation / technology

What difference will you make?

Like all charities, we are run by a Board of Trustees that sets our overall direction. Our trustees also provide detailed oversight of our fundraising, finance, risk, investments, governance, impact services and policy work through Board committees.

What are we looking for?

• Concerned about the growing impact of poverty in later life on our society, and able to bring us any of the following skills: finance, fundraising, brand / marketing / engagement, business development / transformation / innovation / technology.

We particularly encourage applications from people who have backgrounds, characteristics or perspectives that align with the priority groups we have identified (please see pack).

What will you be doing?

You would be joining a strong, experienced Board who are working together with our dedicated charity staff to tackle poverty in later life. As we head into 2026, the final year of our current strategy period, we will continue to build on the strong foundations we\’ve established, with the expectation that a new strategy will be approved at our September 2026 Board meeting. As well as being Board members, trustees generally serve on at least one of our Board committees.