26.02.2025
North West
Deadline: March 14th, 2025
Cheshire Dance seeks New Board Members!
Passionate about community and the arts?
Cheshire Dance wants you to help us bring the transformative power of dance to everyone, regardless of background or ability!
Cheshire Dance is a registered Charity founded in 1976 with a core mission to offer everyone – regardless of age, background, ability / disability – access to dance and the chance to benefit from its transformative power. A specialist in dance participation, 97% of our programme seeks to address the systemic issues around inequalities of opportunity and health and focuses on those who identify through protected characteristics.
Cheshire Dance is currently seeking people with broad experience from ALL walks of life to join its Board. This includes those who identify through protected characteristics, disabled people (including hidden disabilities or neurodiversity such as autism and dyslexia), people from the global majority, LGBTQIA+ and Young People aged under 25 amongst others.
As a Board Member, you’ll play a vital role in contributing to strategic direction and ensuring effective governance of Cheshire Dance, safeguarding our values and maintaining financial stability, championing Cheshire Dance, advocating for our mission and much more!
We are a supportive and collaborative group of people who embrace new ideas, constructive challenge and big-picture thinking. We respect one other and value generosity, honesty and a sense of humour in how Board of Trustee members share their views.
Ideal Board members share our passion for our work in underrepresented communities and our mission to ensure everyone has access to dance. It is not vital that you have active experience in the dance world, but you will share the passion for our purpose. We’re particularly interested in those who can strengthen our expertise in:
This is a voluntary role that offers the opportunity to give back to your community whilst gaining a wealth of transferrable personal and professional skills that will empower, enrich and enable you to extend your network in the creative, cultural, public, voluntary, education and health sectors.
How to Apply
For more information, please download a Board Recruitment Info Pack.
To apply, submit your CV and Expression of Interest to Adam Holloway, Director, at adam@cheshiredance.org, answering these questions:
Call 01606 861 770 or email adam@cheshiredance.org for an informal chat about the role.
