Honorary Treasurer Vacancy

Honorary Treasurer Vacancy - About the role

Our trustees are the people that have overall oversight of the charity. They are not involved in running the charity on a day to day basis as we have a team of staff and volunteers that do this. However, our Board of Trustees collectively makes decisions about the approach that Foothold will take and its future direction.

They make sure that, as an organisation, we have the policies and procedures we need to ensure we're complying with our legal obligations. They provide support, ideas and constructive challenge to our staff team to test our thinking and help Foothold to achieve the best it can for our service users and demonstrate the difference that we make.

The Charity Commission describes the role of trustees as follows:

"Trustees have overall control of a charity and are responsible for making sure it's doing what it was set up to do. They may be known by other titles, such as: directors; board members; governors; committee members. Whatever they are called, trustees are the people who lead the charity and decide how it is run."

Role Description

As a member of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee, the Honorary Treasurer will have the expertise to ensure the strategic oversight of Foothold's finances and to support appropriate decisions and good governance by the Board. This includes:

• Overseeing and presenting budgets, management accounts and annual financial statements;
• Providing advice and information to the Trustees on their financial responsibilities;
• Leading in the Board's duty to ensure that proper accounting records are kept and financial resources are properly managed, controlled and invested, in line with good governance, legal and regulatory requirements;
• Acting as the link between the Trustees and the management on financial matters;
• Keeping under review the effectiveness of all internal control systems, including financial operational and compliance controls;
• Liaising through the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee with staff, including CEO and Head of Business and Volunteering and with Foothold's accountants and independent auditor.

Please submit your application form, CV, and a supporting statement of no more than two pages explaining your interest in this post, and how you meet the points in the person specification, via the vacancy page on our website: Work with us - Foothold.

Closing date: applications should be submitted by 4pm GMT on Thursday 22 January 2026.

Interviews: will be held on Wednesday 4 February in the afternoon in person at a central London location.

Interviews will only be taking place on this date and in person.

Reasonable travel and subsistence expenses can be reimbursed.