Charity Trustees at Evolve Counselling
Closing: 12/05/2025
Trustees required at Evolve Counselling CIO (1181861)
Location: remote/Cambridgeshire area
Voluntary role: reasonable expenses paid
Time commitment: 0-5 hours per month (estimated), mostly outside office hours
Term: negotiable, e.g. interim/three years/extendable by re-election
Application closing date: 12 May 2025
The Role:
Dynamic Trustees needed with charity and commercial skills to support mental health CIO. With an ambitious development programme up and running, we need to expand our Trustee Board. This is an exciting opportunity to join us at a crucial time of growing demand for our services.
About Us:
Evolve Counselling is a long-established charitable social enterprise, providing low cost, affordable or funded mental health counselling to adults in mainly Cambridgeshire and surrounding counties. Our counselling community is made up of 50 – 60 qualified self-employed practitioners, working part-time. We deliver talking therapies to adults – online and in person. Our service delivers around 500 counselling sessions per month to a broad range of individuals, many of whom would not otherwise be able to access counselling support. Evolve also provides supervision, reflective practice, critical incident support, and mental health awareness and related training, to organisations and businesses large and small.
What We’re Looking For:
Our Trustee Board is currently drawn from the counselling and therapies community, plus commercial and other charity backgrounds. Now, with crucial development of the CIO ahead, we are looking for new members to expand the Board to its maximum ten places and to gain skills and insight from an equal, diverse and inclusive group that takes in business skills, knowledge of charities, and experience of not-for-profit finances to make growth plans a reality.
The Board will keep us on track with good governance through oversight of our work and will also help our keen new CEO to secure a sound financial base from which to grow our operations to meet the ever-increasing demand for our services.
We welcome applications from individuals with backgrounds in any of the following areas:
Business strategy and planning
Commerce/industry
Governance
Working within the charity/CIO sector
Financial management
Legal expertise
Health and wellbeing services
Mental health counselling
Health service commissioning or delivery planning
Advocacy or advice services
Data protection/GDPR knowledge
Adherence to the Nolan Principles of Public Life
Application process:
Please email Margaret at projectssupport@evolvecounselling.org.uk with your CV and letter of application, stating why you’d like to become a Trustee at Evolve Counselling and how your skills and experience align with our plans for growth.