Trustees - Making Space

For more than 40 years, Making Space has been supporting people with care needs and their carers to live independent and fulfilling lives. From Cumbria to Cambridge, we deliver support where people need it — in their homes, local communities, and through specialist services. We cater to people with a variety of health and social care needs, from complex mental health challenges and learning disabilities to dementia and older age. With a talented workforce of 1,000 people and a turnover of c£35 million, we are able to support around 10,000 people every year.

Our trustees have played an integral part in our success to date. We are now recruiting three new board members to help us to continue to develop the charity in supporting more people to lead great lives.

We are interested in your skills and experience but also your drive and passion. We are keen to speak to people from a broad range of sectors and professional backgrounds. Do you have any of the following experience?

• Lived or professional experience of the communities we serve

• Senior leadership experience within Local Government

• Strategic IT within complex organisations

• Business Development at a strategic level

We are also always keen to welcome people who have lived experience of caring for the people we support or accessing services similar to those we provide. Your approach as a strategic, values-driven leader is ultimately most important to us, whatever sector/s you have worked in.

You will need to bring experience of working at a senior level, with some Board level exposure but you may well not have been a Trustee before. That experience will have given you an ability to apply your commercial skills and behaviours to an organisation passionate about delivering its mission. Ours is a complex charity and we need Trustees who embrace and enjoy working with organisations which are multi-faceted, challenging to run, yet which deliver amazing and highly rewarding outcomes.

To reflect our ambition and commitment to be more representative at Board level, we particularly encourage and welcome applications from people with a disability, people from minority ethnic backgrounds, and people from the LGBTQ+ community.  

For more information on these exciting roles, please click here or for an informal confidential discussion with our recruitment partners at VBS, please call Rob Hilyer on 07952 316 654 or by email at makingspace@vbsearch.co.uk.