Exciting opportunity to help the badger charity for England and Wales
- Badger Trust Staff Team
- Nov 26, 2024
- 4 min read
Do you have charity fundraising experience? Join our active board as a Trustee.
Established over 30 years ago, Badger Trust exists to promote and enhance the welfare, conservation, and protection of badgers, their setts, and their habitats. We are the leading voice for badgers in England and Wales, with a network of around 50 local voluntary badger groups and supported by thousands of supporters and followers.
We seek a new Trustee to join our Board to support the current Trustees and Chief Executive in continuing to deliver the charity's objectives and ensure we have the right mix of skills, experience, and people to achieve even more for badgers in the coming years.
For this vacancy, Badger Trust is particularly interested in people with charity fundraising experience to help us achieve our goals in this area, building on our research, citizen science, and campaigning work.
For an informal chat, please contact Chief Executive, Peter Hambly, on 01273 033440. Please send your CV to Susie@badgertrust.org.uk by 10 January 2025.
Your skills
Especially useful in this role would be an ability to take a strategic view on fundraising and offer support through one or more of the following:
Helping to identify and contact major donors and corporate partners
Help in writing bids for grant and trust application
Advice in planning and delivering fundraising strategies and campaigns
You must be committed to and passionate about badger welfare and conservation.
We encourage members of badger groups to apply to ensure the group network is effectively represented.
We are looking for applicants whose professional knowledge will add value to our Board. You will be a good strategic thinker, can work collaboratively, and will engage with the broader role of Trustee.
Badger Trust embraces diversity and we aim to diversify our Board in terms of skills, background, and life experience. We welcome all applications, particularly individuals from racially diverse backgrounds and people with a disability, as they are currently under-represented on our Board. We also welcome applications from individuals who reflect a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds in the UK.
Time Commitment
The Board usually has four to six meetings a year, which are usually held on Saturdays. Most of these meetings are virtual, with in-person meetings twice a year.
However, there may be a need to attend virtual meetings outside the normal cycle.
We also hold an AGM, which Trustees are expected to attend and support. The head office is based in Brighton, but in-person meetings are usually held in central England for ease of access for all.
Past and present Trustees have also led or contributed to work outside of routine Board business based on their skill set, aptitude, and interest. For example, our planning and development guide, our updated guide to badger rescue and rehabilitation, and recruiting and interviewing specialist staff.
Our Mission
Our mission is to promote and enhance the welfare, conservation, and protection of badgers, their setts, and their habitats.
Our Vision
Our vision is a world where badgers are respected as part of our rich wildlife heritage, safe from persecution
Chair, Rosie Wood, joined the board in 2021:
“Being on the Board of Badger Trust brings with it plenty of opportunities to learn and collaborate with people of a like mind, that much I hope you would expect. But it also brings chances to open conversations with different decision-makers able to drive change. It gives me scope to remake our arguments in fresh and compelling ways informed – in my case –by sharing the background of those I need to engage with.
While we need people committed to protecting and conserving badgers, we also need them to understand those who can best help – funders, policymakers, lawmakers, and communicators. Don’t expect it to be a passive role – badgers need active friends and advocates. But it will rapidly build up your skills, your professional networks, and your CV, and we will do our best to match your interests and availability to the Charity’s needs."
Badger Trust Vice-Chair, Phil Loveday, who joined the Board in 2023, encourages you to get in touch:
“I joined the Badger Trust board as I just love badgers and am a member of my local badger group. I also bring lots of organisational, education and people skills gained during my career in teaching, including as a head teacher at large secondary schools in the Midlands.
I feel passionately that we need the next generation to have the chance to enjoy nature and to do that, we need to protect it now — that’s what Badger Trust is all about. We need more experienced people willing to help guide the charity in the years ahead.”
Further information
You can find out more about our work by visiting our website where you can also see details of our current Board. You can find us socially on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X and YouTube.
We are a registered charity, a limited company, registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office for data protection compliance, and with the Fundraising Regulator for fundraising compliance. We are also members of the Small Charities Coalition and NCVO for best practice, guidance and support as part of our aim to be an effective and efficient charity.
We encourage applicants to ensure they are familiar with the legal responsibilities of a charity Trustee, and more information can be found on the Charity Commission’s website. See Badger Trust’s registration with the Charity Commission.
Trustee roles are voluntary and without remuneration. Expenses incurred for Board business will be reimbursed in accordance with our expenses policy. Final appointment to the Board is subject to the election of recommended Trustees at the AGM of Badger Trust by the member groups.
How to apply
If you would like to apply to be considered as a Badger Trust Trustee, please review the Trustee role description to ensure you meet our criteria and can offer the skills and experience we need. If so, we'd love to hear from you.
Please complete the Trustee application form (provided as a Word document) and send it back as a pdf, with a copy of your CV, to Susie@badgertrust.org.uk by 10 January 2025.
If you have any questions in advance of your application or would like an informal chat, please contact the Chief Executive, Peter Hambly, in the first instance on 01273 033440.
