New trustee opportunities at Coram Family and Childcare

About our trustee positions

We are looking to appoint new trustees to the Coram Family and Childcare board to help steer the organisation through its next phase of development, ensure that the organisation meets legal and financial requirements, strives to achieve best practice and is financially stable and effectively administered.

Candidates are particularly sought with backgrounds in childcare provision (e.g. nursery manager, childminder, practitioners), SEND, and policy/business development and with lived experience of using childcare services. Coram is an equal opportunities employer and actively encourages applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other backgrounds/protected characteristics to join our teams and boards of trustees/directors.

Each trustee attends four board meetings and serves for a term of four years (renewable for a further four years). The position is unpaid and, when in person, meetings take place at Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Registered Charity No. 312278.

If you would like to have an informal conversation about the position, please contact Head of Coram Family and Childcare, Lydia Hodges, at Lydia.hodges@coramfamilyandchildcare.org.uk.

To apply please send a letter outlining why you would like to join the board and what you could contribute, along with your CV to Oliver.Rose@coram.org.uk by 8 March 2024. Interviews will take place in person in mid March.

About Coram Family and Childcare

Coram Family and Childcare is part of the Coram group of charities and works to make the UK a better place for families by bringing together what we learn from our on the ground parent-led programmes and our research to campaign for solutions that parents want and need. We focus on childcare and early years to make a difference to families’ lives now and in the long term including through our annual Childcare Surveys, the definitive source of information on childcare prices and availability in Great Britain. Find more information about Coram Family and Childcare at www.familyandchildcaretrust.org.

We are Coram. Better chances for children. Now and forever.

Coram is the first and longest continuing children’s charity, helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year. More information about Coram Group is here www.coram.org.uk/difference-wemake/our-impact.

Our vision is bold and ambitious – to be the Institute for Children, driving insight into impact, creating better chances for children child by child and changing the odds of the next generation through policy, legal and practice development.