Chair of the Board of Trustees for Windsor Horse Rangers

Windsor Horse Rangers is looking for a new Chair to lead our Board of Trustees. Based in Fifield near Windsor, Berkshire, we are a charity which aims to empower young people through horsemanship. Our tag line is enhancing life skills through horse skills. The trustees, staff and volunteers are focused on providing a sustainable, inclusive and educative environment for 8–18 year olds to develop skills to ride and care for horses.

We have 180 Horse Rangers attending weekly to learn horsemanship working with our 25 horses. We offer equine education in a safe and supportive environment that engages and empowers and which develops wider life skills, emotional resilience and positive wellbeing. Many of our rangers have gone on to careers in equestrianism.

Our committed team of trustees are looking for a volunteer chair to lead and support the team, help with decision-making to deliver our mission, challenge us and bring fresh thinking to the role.

We are looking for a supportive leader who can bring experience from either another charitable environment or the commercial world. Your responsibilities will include, providing leadership and ideas for the organisation and giving strategic direction to ensure a sustainable future. You will represent and act as a spokesperson for the charity and chair and facilitate meetings of the trustees. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual looking to apply their own skills and experience to enhance the life skills of young people and support a charitable institution. A love and knowledge of horses is a bonus but not a pre-requisite.

The ideal candidate would live locally so could attend face to face trustees meetings.

Responsibilities

• • Safeguard and promote the Charity’s mission
  • Act as the senior representative and spokesperson for Windsor Horse Rangers
  • Ensure annual and longer-term strategic plans are developed, monitored and executed.
  • Ensure Board operates to a high standard of governance and financial probity
  • Ensure the Trustees have relevant skills and backgrounds

Skills and Experience

• • Desire to empower young people to improve their skills, independence and self esteem
  • Leadership skills to facilitate collaboration with trustees, staff and volunteers
  • Strategic and financial management skills.
  • Governance at Board level with voluntary/non-profit organisations
  • Working understanding (or a willingness to learn) of UK charity law and legislation
  • Networking within equine community or charity sector desirable

Proficient in written and spoken English