Woodlands Community Board

Woodlands Community is governed by a volunteer board of charity trustees.

Our trustees are local residents and volunteers who are responsible for making strategic decisions about where we focus our activity to best support our local community. They also ensure that the organisation and its finances are well-managed. We currently have 8 charity trustees:

Michael Weatherhead (chair)

Martha Wardrop (vice-chair)

Yanru Zou (treasurer)

Fiona Hart

Juan Sebastián Sánchez

Lillian Anyadi

Roberta Weber

Sara Jane Mcintosh

We are currently looking to recruit trustees with expertise or experience in:

Fundraising - including non-grant fundraising.
HR/Personnel - to provide support on staffing issues and policies.

We are also keen to recruit a trustee with a particular interest in helping us to develop our Anti-racism work as we implement our Anti-racist Action Plan across the organisation.

Our board meets 10 times per year, usually from 6.30-8pm on the last Wednesday of the month.

The average time commitment we ask for from trustees is around 6 hours per month.

For more information and to register an interest in this role please email our Chair michael@woodlandscommunity.org.uk by Wednesday 21st May.

Joining the Woodlands Community board is an opportunity to be a part of an active board that works closely with the team and volunteers in the delivery of the Trust’s mission and vision. While trustees tend to join because of an interest in one area of Woodlands work, they end up learning and gaining from exposure to the other areas of the Trust’s work. Between the monthly board meetings, trustees can often be found helping in the community garden, attending Woodlands clear ups, popping into our community café or attending a film screening of our anti-racist library. The experience of being on a board, and gaining an understanding of issues around strategy, governance and funding, can also aid people looking to build a career in the charity sector.