Trustee - Personal Best Foundation

England Athletics; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A registered charity is seeking a Trustee to leverage fundraising expertise and support business development. This strategic role involves guiding sustainability efforts and impacting young lives through athletics. Ideal candidates will have senior experience in fundraising and business development. The role is voluntary with expenses reimbursed and requires a time commitment of 1-2 days per month, including Board meetings and events.

Benefits

Reasonable expenses reimbursed

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in fundraising strategy and income generation.
• Business development or start-up growth experience in a charity setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide insight, advice, and guidance for sustainability and growth.
• Oversee governance and strategy as part of the Board.
• Support and challenge the leadership team.

Skills

Fundraising strategy development

Business development

Income generation

Voluntary sector experience

Job description

Trustee Opportunity - Fundraising / Business Development Expertise

Home based, Expenses Only

Personal Best Foundation is seeking a new Trustee to help us scale and sustain our impact. We exist to change young lives through the power of athletics - breaking down social inequalities and improving health and wellbeing for children and young people from disadvantaged and underserved communities.

The Personal Best Foundation is an independent registered charity, affiliated to and supported by England Athletics, providing strong links and credibility within the athletics and wider sport sector.

We are at an exciting stage of growth, having adopted a mixed fundraising model and recently launched our first major corporate partnership, with strong potential to grow in the years ahead.

To help us achieve our aims, we are seeking to recruit a new Trustee with expertise in fundraising strategy or business development to join our esteemed Board. This is a strategic role providing insight, advice and guidance to help us build long term sustainability and growth.

We are particularly interested in individuals who have:

• Senior-level experience in fundraising strategy and income generation - e.g. shaping fundraising propositions, developing a compelling case for support, influencing funders, and/or designing income generation strategies;
• Business development or start-up growth experience - ideally with a background in scaling organisations, developing partnerships, or building sustainable business models that could transfer into a charity setting.

The Role of our Trustees: Our Trustees play a vital role in ensuring the charity achieves its purpose, overseeing governance, sustainability, and strategy. Just as importantly, our Trustees act as a critical friend to the leadership team - supporting, advising, constructively challenging and when appropriate, leveraging their networks to strengthen the Foundation’s impact.

Time commitment is around 1-2 days per month, including Board meetings, sub-committees and key events. The role is voluntary, with reasonable expenses reimbursed.

This is an opportunity to use your expertise to help shape and scale a young charity with huge potential - and make a lasting difference in the lives of young people.

For further details and to apply for the role, please visit www.englandathletics.org/about-us//careers/ . Please upload your CV and a covering letter which details what you think you can bring to the role and why it appeals to you.

Closing date for applications is 5.00pm, Friday 24th October 2025. Interviews will be held in London on Friday 7th November 2025.

The Personal Best Foundation actively encourages applications from suitably qualified and experienced candidates regardless of gender, gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, age, religion or belief, parenting, caring or marital status. We recognise the potential that every individual brings.