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At Sound Lab, we believe ‘music matters’ and that music and creativity should not just be available for those who can readily access and afford it; it should be available to everyone. Our vision is that, irrespective of age, gender, race, ethnicity or economic background, everyone should have equal access to the resources and support they need to fulfil their creative potential. We work to overcome barriers that can prevent people accessing opportunities in music by providing expert music-making education and mentoring support. We focus on children and young people who often do not receive the same opportunities as their peers, specifically care experienced young people; children with disabilities; and young people from an unaccompanied, asylum-seeking or refugee background. In recent years, in a challenging external funding context, we are proud to have carefully maintained a steady growth as a small charity. We have recently recruited a fantastic new staff team who are taking our programmes and operations to the next level, and helping to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for our programmes. We are recruiting for a new treasurer to help steward and maintain our financial good health at this exciting point in our journey. This is a voluntary role with travel and other subsistence expenses paid.
The Treasurer will help to monitor and steward the financial position of The Sound Lab, maintain processes to ensure financial stability and ensure that the Board of Trustees fulfils its duties in safeguarding the sound financial health of the charity.
Detailed Responsibilities:
• Oversight and strategic guardianship of Sound Lab’s legal and financial integrity
• Reporting to the Board of Trustees on issues of cash-flow, forecasting and the overall management of Sound Lab’s financial resources
• Preparation and approval of payment runs in conjunction with the Programme & Development Manager
• Lead on ensuring all Sound Lab’s strategic plans are financially appraised and budgets are aligned to both short-term and long-term objectives each year.
• Keeping accurate financial records and invoice management.
• Use of Bank of Scotland online platform for payment runs and updating account signatories as required
• Assisting in the preparation of grant funding applications on an ad-hoc basis.
• Ensure our annual accounts and report are prepared and submitted to OSCR on a timely basis
• Liaise with an external examiner in relation to the annual preparation of our financial accounts
• Develop and maintain reserves policy to safeguard the organisation’s finances, ensuring the board are kept informed of the position regularly and given financial forecasting advice
• Understand Sound Lab’s business plan for and support the Board of Trustees and other volunteers to help achieve its aims
• Attend six Board meetings per annum, or as required.
To arrange an informal chat with our Chair, Paul Sullivan, or current Treasurer, Joe Lee, please contact Erica Gilchrist at thesoundlab@live.co.uk, or call Paul directly on 07870745107. Or apply directly by sending a CV and one-page cover letter detailing why you are interested in the role to thesoundlab@live.co.uk by 5pm on Monday 10th June. After initial expressions of interest,
informal interviews will be held in min-late June.
If you are interested, please click the ‘Apply’ button below (available when logged in and registered). You will then be contacted by the coordinator by email or phone call. If you have not heard back after 5 working days, the first step is to contact the organisation with the contact details provided. You could also check your junk/spam folder on your emails just in case the response is there. If that doesn’t work out, then please feel free to contact Volunteer Glasgow on info@volunteerglasgow.org.
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Home-based volunteering, One-off volunteering, Board/trustee role
A wide range of opportunities are available and include:
Fosterers – a spare room to care for a cat until a new home is found. All equipment and food etc provided.
Home checkers – visiting prospective new cat owners.
Fostering support and co ordination – helping fosterers and organising cat food distribution, equipment etc
Equipment inventory – keeping an up to date list of all equipment and its location.
Helpline – taking phone calls from the public.
Food store coordinator – making sure fosterers have sufficient food of an appropriate type and caring for supplies.
Kitten socialising – assisting fosterers to socialise young kittens to meeting different people and get used to them.
TNR Trap, Neuter and Return – trapping feral cats, taking them to the vets to be neutered and then releasing them back to site. Involves learning about the colony and getting them used to being fed in a trap; arranging neutering with the vets; keeping the cats safe until fully recovered and able to rejoin the colony; arranging for kittens young enough to be socialised to be fostered.
Transport – cats to vets etc; goods and equipment to where needed.
Collecting and sorting donated goods.
Storing donated goods, equipment and cat food.
Fundraiser – to organise fundraising events.
On line auctions – organise online auctions of donated goods.
Stall helpers – assisting on stalls.
Crafts – making crafts to sell.
Grant applications – find and apply for appropriate grants and funding.
Sunday tea staff – assisting at Sunday teas.
Trustee – joining the trustees.
Marketing.
DIY – DIY skills to help maintain pens and equipment
Shetland Women's Aid are looking for women to join us in promoting the safety and wellbeing of women and children in Shetland who are affected by domestic abuse and gender-based violence. SWA is a registered charity funded by local and national grant aid to provide safety planning, counselling, refuge, advice and guidance about housing, finance and legal issues to women. There is also a children and young person's service focused on offering therapy and support to children and young people. The aim for Shetland Women's Aid is 'An equitable society in which women, children and young people are valued participants, able to determine their own future and are free from all forms of abuse.'
As a trustee you will be instrumental in helping us realise our vision and mission. Part of your role will be to ensure that our day to day operation fulfils our strategic vision.
If you decide to join Shetland Women's Aid, you can make a real difference to the women and children who experience domestic and sexual abuse.
Borders Care Voice, a charity based in Galashiels, is looking for a new Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees to help guide and advise us on financial matters.
We would be keen to hear from someone who would like to become part of our dedicated and passionate team of Trustees and staff. You should have a finance/accounting experience and knowledge of financial systems and reporting.
Main responsibilities:
Overseeing, approving and presenting budgets, accounts, financial statements and financial reports to the Board of Trustees
Ensuring that the financial resources of the organisation meet its present and future needs
Be involved in developing and implementing financial, reserves and investment policies
For more information visit https://borderscarevoice.org.uk/treasurer/
Save By The Bell is a project that encourages children and young people to develop a savings habit. We run weekly collections in participating primary schools across Dundee, where pupils can deposit money into their savings account. Our trained primary 6/7 pupils act as 'tellers' and are supervised by adult volunteers. We need more adult volunteers to support and monitor our pupils during these collections, helping them to develop their cash handling and numeracy skills. There are positions available in various schools and collections usually last no more than one hour. All volunteers will be required to commit to attending one collection per week and to undergo a Disclosure Scotland check. Support and training will be provided by Save By The Bell staff.
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Home-based volunteering, Board/trustee role
Avenue is an Aberdeen based charity dedicated to providing comprehensive support services to families and individuals across the North-East of Scotland, with a focus on relationships, wellbeing, and children. Avenue supports people in Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, and Morayshire, occupying two sites with a large team offering a range of expertise.
Their mission is to encourage personal development, strengthen relationships, promote family wellbeing, support children, and enable healthy environments for all. Guided by their six core values – effectiveness, integrity, respect, credibility, independence, and innovation – Avenue are working towards a world where individuals experience happy, harmonious, and respectful interactions in all aspects of their lives.
The role of Treasurer is critical to both compliance and viability. As the Treasurer, you will provide support and advice in relation to board and financial matters. You’ll monitor Avenues financial activities and performance, ensuring that proper accounts are kept, and financial resources are spent and invested in line with good governance, legal and regulatory requirements. Working closely with the CEO, Chair and Trustees you’ll provide reports, advice, and clarity of the financial performance of Avenue with the aim of ensuring long-term stability.
We are seeking a highly experienced individual with a strong background in a finance-based role such as an accountant, financial controller/director or similar. The ideal candidate will have a pragmatic approach to robust financial management, with the ability to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
You should be committed to Avenue’s mission, impact and have a genuine empathy for their cause. Knowledge or experience within the third sector would be advantageous, while good communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
The Board of Trustees meet four times a year, normally for two hours in the evening, this includes an AGM. The time commitment for the incoming Treasurer will be approx. 4 hours per month. Board meetings are held in person, however virtual attendance can be accommodated.
For more information please contact Rebecca Robertson, Administrator at email: recruitment@brucetaitassociates.com or telephone: 07498605064.
Tayside Cancer Support offers the opportunity for anyone affected by cancer in Tayside to receive emotional, social and practical support, either on an individual basis or in a group setting.
The charity has been in existence since July 1994, and is made up of an Executive Committee of voluntary Trustees, one part-time paid employee and approximately twenty volunteer befrienders plus other people who support our events. We work with cancer patients, their families, carers and friends. We do this alongside healthcare professionals and other charities and support groups to provide vital support and information.
We are funded through donations and fundraising events, and we spend the majority of our income on complementary therapies for our clients in the form of counselling or other therapies. We pay subsidised rent in our offices, one part time salary and lastly refreshments for our drop in cafes and to keep our volunteers going!
Anyone can utilise our services who, either has cancer or is supporting someone on their cancer journey, e.g family or friends. They don’t need a specific referral, they can just get in touch. There are no costs associated with our services.
Our annual numbers in a story:
● Roughly 20 befrienders working with clients for around 30-40 hours a month.
● We spend around £1,000 a month on counselling and therapies for our clients, this is roughly 20 clients who are benefiting
● The Drop-in Café has had visits from around 50 people over the year.
We have big ambitions to grow our support to help more clients throughout Tayside and the surrounding area and therefore we need to raise our profile and in turn raise more funds. We are looking for anyone with relevant financial qualifications or experience who is interested in becoming our Treasurer. We are open to how many hours a week but we just require regular commitment and consistency to ensure that specific tasks get completed regularly.
The role will ideally encompass the following but we are very open to any conversations if your skill set is similar to this and you feel passionate about what we do:
Be passionate and advocate on behalf of Tayside Cancer Support
Be a self-starter who is highly organised and happy to take the initiative to get stuff done!
Guide and advise the board on the key assumptions and financial implications of Tayside Cancer Support budgets, operational and strategic plans
Ensure that the organisation has an appropriate reserves policy and a realistic budget that meets the services’ needs
Ensure that annual accounts are prepared in compliance with regulations and submitted by the deadline to the Charity Commission and/or Registrar of Companies, and make arrangements for them to be audited or independently examined as required
Have financial qualifications or experience in a financial role
Some overall knowledge or experience of charity finances, fundraising, financial consequences and pension schemes
Effective communication skills and willingness to participate actively in discussions!
Ability to understand and accept the responsibility and liability of being a member of the board
To find out more please contact Lucy-Rose Walker at: office@taysidecancersupport.org or phone 07904 292766.
Ninewells Community Garden is looking for a new trustee to support our Charity to grow and develop. Would you like to join the Board of a local charity which works to improve the health & wellbeing of children, young people and adults?
Ninewells Community Garden is a small local charity and exists to promote physical activity and mental health through community gardening. It sits within the grounds of Ninewells Hospital and Medical School and within the Menzieshill and Charleston communities.
Despite being a small charity we consistently achieve remarkable outcomes with minimal resources and are often told we have improved people’s lives. We rely on a dedicated team of staff, trustees and volunteers to maintain our garden and develop and deliver new opportunities.
We are seeking an additional trustee to be our Treasurer. The Board is currently made up of 8 members and meets every 6 weeks and is looking to recruit a new member. You will be part of a small and friendly team of trustees and staff who are passionate about how gardening & being in green space increases our feeling of wellness and reduces social isolation.
The main duties are to maintain an overview of the charity’s financial affairs and ensure its financial viability; control expenditure; maintain proper financial records and procedures; and fulfil regulatory reporting requirements. You will work with our current Treasurer who wishes to step down from the role in the New Year.
As Ninewells Community Garden does not employ a finance officer or company secretary, this is a hands-on role covering the full range of financial, accounting, regulatory and governance issues.
Our trustees are all volunteers, most of whom live or work in the local community, and all of whom use their skills, knowledge and experience to help guide and govern our service, shape strategy, and give direction to the charity. This is an opportunity for you to make a real difference to the charity and to the local community.
Treasurer Role
· Oversee the financial affairs of the organisation and ensure they are legal, constitutional and within accepted accounting practice.
· Ensure proper records are kept and that effective financial procedures are in place.
· Monitor and report on the financial health of the Charity
· Oversee the production of necessary financial reports/returns, accounts and audits
Contact chair@ninewellsgarden.org.uk to express interest Visit our web site for more information https://ninewellsgarden.org.uk/. And see lots more news on https://www.facebook.com/ninewellsgarden/.
We are currently seeking a new finance director to join our board and we hope to find someone who has experience of financial management and accountancy. We would like our Board to be representative of our local community and so would welcome approaches from people who live locally or have lived experience of issues facing our clients. We encourage applications from all sectors of the community and you do not need to have board experience to apply, we will support you with tailored training based on your level of experience.
Role and responsibilities:
As well as bearing all the fiduciary duty of a board officer, the finance director is the person specifically entrusted with overseeing the management of the bureau funds. They will work with the bureau manager in the day-to-day financial business. The finance director is also responsible for ensuring that accurate records are maintained and the board is informed of all relevant financial matters.
The tasks associated with this post are:
• liaising with and advising the Manager and Board on financial matters
• controlling and accounting for the bureau’s finances, ensuring that full financial records are kept for all
transactions and carrying out all approved banking transactions
• ensuring that proper financial procedures and accounting practice are in place to safeguard the bureau’s
resources
• preparing financial statements for board meetings and for the annual general meeting
• liaise with the appointed Independent examiner for the annual review of accounts
• preparing an annual budget and advising the board of its financial requirements for the year ahead
We are currently seeking a new finance director to join our board and we hope to find someone who has experience of financial management and accountancy. Our current finance director will remain on the board and will be a source of support for the new finance director. We would like our Board to be representative of our local community and so would welcome approaches from people who live locally or have lived experience of issues facing our clients. We encourage applications from all sectors of the community and you do not need to have board experience to apply, we will support you with tailored training based on your level of experience.
Role and responsibilities:
As well as bearing all the fiduciary duty of a board officer, the finance director is the person specifically entrusted with management of the bureau funds. They will deal with much of the day-to-day financial business and will play a key role in planning a clear fundraising strategy. The finance director is also responsible for ensuring that accurate records are maintained and the board is informed of all relevant financial matters.
The tasks associated with this post are:
• liaising with and advising the Manager and Board on financial matters
• controlling and accounting for the bureau’s finances, ensuring that full financial records are kept for all
transactions and carrying out all approved banking transactions
• liaising with the payroll administrator on monthly salary payments to paid staff
• ensuring that proper financial procedures and accounting practice are in place to safeguard the bureau’s
resources
• preparing financial statements for board meetings and for the annual general meeting
• liaise with the appointed Independent examiner for the annual review of accounts
• preparing an annual budget and advising the board of its financial requirements for the year ahead