Trustees
Involve
Voluntary basis
The role requires approximately 8-10 days per year.
We’re the UK’s leading public participation charity. Our mission is to lead the UK in making participation and deliberation an everyday, integral part of democracy, to help meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Our purpose is to change the system to shift power in practice, to create a better democracy with people more involved in setting the agenda of power. And this will help bring about our vision; a vibrant democracy where everyone can shape a society that works for us all.
THE ROLE
Involve has an important opportunity for strategic impact – embedding institutionalised participation and deliberation at national, devolved and local levels.
In recent years Involve has developed to meet this opportunity. While it was always respected, it has become more influential. We have explicitly grown our advocacy and capacity building skills, and begun to work at grass roots levels as well as with institutional commissioners. We have a new impact framework which draws attention to the mindsets and capacities needed, and shows how our high quality projects create change in institutions and in democratic norms.
Our Board of Trustees has shown visionary leadership and helped the charity step up into a leadership role for the UK. We are looking for two new Trustees, who can strengthen our Board and bring an interest in participatory decision making.
Please join us on the next stage of Involve’s journey, and steward a confident, maturing organisation looking to grow its impact significantly. Help us to shift power in practice, foreground the voices of those systemically undervalued, and move the UK to a place where deliberative and participatory approaches are a normal, everyday part of democracy.
