Shaw Trust Board Chair search
Our Chair Sir Kenneth Olisa, following the completion of his maximum tenure, will formally step down at the AGM, scheduled for May 2023. Sir Ken has provided visionary strategic leadership during his tenure, overseeing significant growth and diversification to deliver our Child to Career tenet supporting hundreds of thousands of people every year into good employment pathways.
The Shaw Trust board wishes to appoint a successor who has the experience, gravitas, influence, and network to continue to lead our growing and increasingly complex charity and social purpose organisation.
About Shaw Trust
At Shaw Trust we pride ourselves on our ‘charitable heart with a commercial brain’ approach to what we do; quality services that also maximise social value and social investment to communities.
This approach will allow us to meet:
Our Vision
A future where good employment is accessible to all in society irrespective of life circumstances.
Our Mission
To focus our experience, skills, advocacy and passion to deliver the highest quality services for the people we support and to improve opportunities and access to work now and for the long term.
Shaw Trust believes in the right of every person in the United Kingdom to live a decent and dignified life through good employment. We are a not-for-profit social enterprise that seeks to improve life chances for employment for people who face social and economic challenges, or who may also be disabled or have complex needs.
Today we are a charity that remains committed to employment as the core pathway to a better life. However, we recognise that access to good employment is critically dependent on what happens in people’s formative years and the opportunities they then have.
Our Services
Employability pathways and programmes are at the core of what Shaw Trusts delivers. Our framework to enhance contracted employability outcomes will include:
- Education and Skills.
- Children and Young People’s Services.
- Health and Well-being.
Our Ambition
Our ambition is to accelerate our mission and amplify our reach – by 2032, providing more people with the good help that they need to access good work and a good quality of life – and we need people like you to help us. For us, impactful change is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centered on opportunity for all.
Shaw Trust was founded on these principles 40 years ago; for our 3,400 employees and 800 volunteers across the UK, they remain true. In the last financial year, we supported nearly 500,000 people through an annual revenue of £223m. We are now poised for the next era of significant development.
Our vision for the next ten years is built on our Child to Career tenet focusing on joining up our nationwide, multidisciplinary skills and services to provide tailored, people-centered support without profit motive.
We will also use our deep experience to advocate on behalf of those in need. Our new Shaw Trust Foundation uses surplus generated and donations to deliver positive change and our Shaw Trust Institute provides the essential evidence that helps shape national policy.
To help us deliver impact on the scale and of the quality we want to see, we are now looking for an individual with significant professional and personal influence to chair our Trustee Board.