Trustees

Help shape SPEAR’s future as a Trustee, bringing your skills, experience or lived insight to help make homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring.
SPEAR is a well-established homelessness charity supporting people across London to find secure accommodation and work towards a positive future.
We are looking for new Trustees to join our Board at an important point in SPEAR’s development. With several existing Trustees approaching the end of their terms, we want to bring new skills, experiences and perspectives to the Board as we deliver our new three-year plan.
We are particularly interested in people bringing accounting or audit, fundraising, safeguarding, or lived experience of homelessness.
You do not need to have been a Trustee before. We welcome first-time Trustees and particularly encourage applications from people currently under-represented on charity boards.
Who we are looking forWe want to hear from people who share SPEAR’s commitment to helping people experiencing homelessness find secure accommodation and work towards a positive future.
We are particularly seeking people with one or more of the following:

• Accounting or audit expertise, ideally as a qualified accountant or auditor with the capability to Chair our Audit and Risk Committee
• Fundraising experience
• Safeguarding expertise, with the ability to act as the Board’s Safeguarding Lead
• Lived experience of homelessness, or a close relationship with someone who has been affected by homelessness.

Alongside this, we are looking for people who can work collaboratively, listen and debate, express their views constructively and contribute confidently to collective decision-making. You should be comfortable acting as an ambassador for SPEAR and committed to equity, diversity and inclusion.
We want our Board to better reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and particularly welcome applications from women, people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds, and people from a wider range of age groups.
Previous Trustee experience is not essential. We welcome first-time Trustees who can bring new skills, experiences and perspectives.