JOIN OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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Job Summary

Kingsgate Workshops seeks applications to join its Board of Trustees as the Charities Treasurer.

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Job Description

Trustees are unpaid volunteers for the charity (registration number 1082112) who are responsible for making sure the charity does what it was set up to do and who oversee its management.

Trustees provide support, advice, and guidance to the management team of this Kilburn-based studio provider and exhibition project space.

There is no obligation for you to have previously served on a board before becoming a Trustee at KWT. We are currently looking to recruit a trustee with financial experience to become the board's treasurer.

They will be responsible for working with the Director to present and explain KWT's state of finances to Trustees, to identify risks and recommend how to mitigate against them. Your background is likely to be as an accountant, finance manager or similar. The charity's turnover is under £0.5m.

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Job Requirements

All Trustees are expected to provide strategic and governance oversight of KWT by working with the other members of the Board to support the Director of KWT to ensure good governance and help plan and fulfil the strategic aims of the charity as well as:

• Supporting and advising the Executive team in your areas of expertise

• Being collectively responsible for the governance of the charity with the other board members, ensuring that KWT acts in accordance with its governing documents and applicable legislation

• Ensuring that KWT uses its resources exclusively to further its charitable objects

• Exercising control over the financial affairs of KWT and protecting its assets, ensuring that the charity is financially sustainable

• Carrying out your duties and making decisions at all times in the best interests of KWT

• Attending and contributing to Board Meetings

• Acting as an ambassador for KWT.

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Job Responsibilities

The Board of Trustees meets 4 times per year. Board meetings are conducted on a weekday evening between 6:30 and 8:30pm, in person in London NW6. Trustees should additionally be able and prepared to offer occasional advice and support to the management team in line with that Trustee's expertise and/or to attend bi-annual Q&A sessions with the director and KWT's studio users.

For more information on the roles and responsibilities of a trustee please refer to the Charity Commission guidance  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-essential-trustee-what-you-need-to-know-cc3/the-essential-trustee-what-you-need-to-know-what-you-need-to-do - here. KWT would welcome applications from any member of the community. Addressing the age profile and diversity of the Board is a priority, and we would particularly encourage applications from younger people with experience in the art world.

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About Kingsgate Workshops & Project Space

 

Kingsgate Workshops is a provider of affordable studios and workshops in Kilburn, London NW6 for artists and craft makers. We currently offer 43 self-contained and secure studios within a large Victorian warehouse building located on a residential street. KWT purchased a long lease on our building in 2005. With 3 years remaining until our building loans are fully repaid this is a key time for the organisation to plan for an exciting and secure future.

 

Our cohort of studio licensees include makers who have been with us for 30+ years and others who are newly graduated, emerging practitioners. Approximately 60% of our studio users are involved in crafts including jewellery, ceramics, glass and furniture making. 40% of our studios are used by painters, sculptors, printmakers and interdisciplinary artists. This mix of skills and methodologies makes Kingsgate a lively and friendly working environment where collaboration and support between makers is common.

 

Most studios are lone working spaces, some are shared by 2 or more makers, and some studios host regular classes or provide space for supervised and supported access to facilities such as ceramic kilns. Over 100 people use Kingsgate Workshops every week, and arts and craft works by our makers have recently been exhibited in Collect, London; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Compton Verney Museum, Warwickshire; Mendes Wood Gallery, São Paulo; Sadie Coles Gallery, London and The British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent. Our makers have also brought joy into many homes through TV shows The Great Pottery Throwdown and All That Glitters.

 

10% of incomes from studio rents support a programme of public-facing exhibitions, events and residencies that take place at Kingsgate Project Space. This programme works with artists at key stages in their professional development offering critical conversation, production and sharing space for the testing of ideas and art works. Kingsgate contributes to London’s artistic landscape, and to its diverse and empowered future, by creating idiosyncratic opportunities for artists who do not, or do not yet have similar opportunities elsewhere.

 

All Trustees are expected to provide strategic and governance oversight of KWT by working with the other members of the Board to support the Director of KWT to ensure good governance and help plan and fulfil the strategic aims of the charity as well as:

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• Supporting and advising the Executive team in your areas of expertise

• Being collectively responsible for the governance of the charity with the other board members, ensuring that KWT acts in accordance with its governing documents and applicable legislation

• Ensuring that KWT uses its resources exclusively to further its charitable objects

• Exercising control over the financial affairs of KWT and protecting its assets, ensuring that the charity is financially sustainable

• Carrying out your duties and making decisions at all times in the best interests of KWT

• Attending and contributing to Board Meetings

• Acting as an ambassador for KWT.

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The Trustee with finance experience will be the charity’s Treasurer. S/he will be responsible for working with the Director to present and explain KWT’s state of finances to Trustees, to identify risks and recommend how to mitigate against them. Your background is likely to be as an accountant, finance manager or similar. The charity’s turnover is under £0.5m.

 

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To apply

 

Please feel free to contact us if you have questions, or if you would like to discuss the role with a member of the Board, or with the director.

 

To apply please send a cv and a cover email, outlining why you would like to join Kingsgate Workshop Trust’s Board of Trustees.

 

Please address emails to:   office@kingsgateworkshops.org.uk

 

Thank you so much for considering supporting our work in this way.