SYP Trustees are at the forefront of our work. Your role would include deciding which applications are successful against the strategy you help to create. You would build relationships with two or three organisations each grant round, encouraging them to share ideas with our community of grantees, and witnessing the work they do first hand through visits and events.
SYP Trust aims to bring about positive change where it is needed in the lives of children and young people in London. We do this by providing grants of up to £10,000 to around 15 small organisations each year. These organisations are often providing exciting and innovative interventions with the potential to bring significant and long-lasting changes to the children and young people they serve.
If you would like the opportunity to join our small charity, we would love to hear from you. Applications are welcome from all sectors of the community. People with lived experience of disadvantage, and the youth sector in London, are strongly encouraged to apply. SYP Trust is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion and eliminating unlawful discrimination among our employees, beneficiaries and our Board of Trustees.
Through our grants we aim to:
- Reach children and young people who may be disadvantaged due to their physical or intellectual capacity, citizenship status, race, health and life expectancy, sexual orientation or previous criminal activity.
- Reach children and young people who fall between the gaps of high and low attainment and privilege, who are often left without access to opportunities and whose potential is frequently overlooked.
- Encourage organisations to be flexible and creative in their approach, to be bold and try innovative and untested ideas that have the potential to have meaningful impacts and bring young people into their leadership and decision making.
What are my responsibilities?
As a Trustee you are jointly responsible for the financial running of the charity and the management of our Grants Manager and the delivery of our charitable objects. This covers a wide range of skills and experience; however we are currently particularly interested in recruiting new Trustees with lived experience of any of our priorities areas, and any of the below:
- Youth Work
- Grant Funding/Philanthropy
- Finance
- Social Care
- Education
- Health (particularly mental health)
- Governance