Join Our Board of Trustees

2025 is an exciting year for Wiltshire Community Foundation. It marks our 50^th birthday, a significant milestone celebrating five decades of connecting people who care with causes that matter. We are also reaching the end of our 2020-2025 organisational strategy, which has seen significant change, development and achievement within our organisation.

We are now finalising our new five-year strategy, which has been developed in consultation with our staff, trustees, donors, grantees, the wider voluntary sector and other key stakeholders. As we enter this exciting new chapter, we are looking to appoint some new trustees to our board, to help us continue to inspire philanthropy and enable our local voluntary sector to help people in our communities to thrive.

Who are we looking for?

We want to reflect the communities we support by bringing a range of diverse voices, skills, backgrounds and experiences to our board. We would encourage people who would usually not consider themselves in this role to apply or contact us to find out more.

Candidates do not have to have previous experience of sitting on a board. You don’t need a charity background or a university degree to be a trustee, or to have reached any particular stage in your career.

What’s important to us is a keen interest in Wiltshire and Swindon, a commitment to creating positive change for our local communities, and a willingness to contribute time, attention and passion to the role, to our thinking and to the future success of our organisation.

Some of our trustees are in their final term with us and will be leaving the organisation in the next 12 – 18 months. To make sure we have continuity in the balance of skills and experience on the Board, we are currently particularly interested in hearing from people with either:

• an accountancy or audit background or
• a voluntary sector background

If your skills don’t match this, but you are interested please get in touch as other vacancies for trustees may arise in the future.

Apply here

For a full role description, person specification, and details on how to apply, please read our recruitment pack in full here

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment that reflects the diversity of the communities across Wiltshire and Swindon. This includes our board of trustees, staff team, volunteers, donors and grant recipients.

All applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.

Wiltshire Community Foundation is committed to continuing our journey of self-reflection and development. We are taking steps to ensure we are educated and understand our responsibility to do more to drive change. If you would like read our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Policy you can do so here.