CAS – Community Action Southwark

CAS are recruiting for new trustees! 

Could you donate your time and expertise to help us support Southwark’s voluntary and community sector?

CAS seeks to equip Southwark’s voluntary and community organisations with the tools and information they need to achieve their objectives.  We provide training and one-to-one support on a wide range of topics to empower our members to develop and grow, and we represent our members to local government and more widely. 

CAS has a growing membership with over 200 members joining since June 2011.  We have a dynamic and committed staff team who are enthusiastic about supporting the local voluntary sector.  CAS has recently recruited a new Chief Executive Officer, Gordon McCullough and has a three-year contract with Southwark Council to deliver high quality infrastructure support across the borough.

CAS is currently looking to recruit up to four new Trustees to the Board, both to replace recent departures and to ensure that the Board is representative of the groups it works with and of the diverse communities in Southwark.  We are therefore particularly seeking applications from younger applicants and from BME applicants.  The CAS Board needs to be strong and show effective strategic leadership to CAS and the wider sector and we have also identified that we need to strengthen the Board’s skills around dealing with property / premises issues and around campaigning.  We are therefore looking to recruit these skills.

By becoming a trustee for CAS, you would play a crucial role in helping Southwark’s voluntary sector to thrive during difficult times; to represent your community and to ensure that the voices of vulnerable communities are heard within local decision-making.  It is an opportunity to build relationships across the voluntary and statutory sectors, and to influence policy. 

In return for your time and expertise, CAS will offer you a full induction with on-going training and personal development.  You will be fully supported within a friendly environment to gain new skills, make useful contacts within the borough, and take on stimulating challenges. 

To be a CAS Board member you will need;

• Knowledge of the issues that the borough faces, the challenges of living and working in this populous and diverse borough
• An interest in the contribution that the voluntary, faith and community sectors make to local people
• Commitment to the organisation
• Willingness to devote the necessary time and effort
• Strategic vision, wanting to make a difference in the world
• Good, independent judgment
• Understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship
• To be a member of CAS, or eligible and willing to become a member (for full details of CAS’s membership policy, visit the “Join Us” page of the CAS website.

For more information about what it means to be a trustee, you can look at Charity Commission guidance “The Essential Trustee” here:

 http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Library/guidance/cc3text.pdf  

Download the application pack below:

Trustee Code of Conduct extract for recruitment

Trustee JD

letter to trustee applicants v2

Trustee_application_form v3

CAS EW Equal opportunities policy and monitoring form (2)

Closing date: Friday 2nd March 2012, 12 noon