Looking to Recruit a Secretary for the Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and personable individual for the role of Trustee Secretary. The main activity at Swansea Community Workshops (SCW) is to provide facilities for hobbies, recreation, and leisure time occupation in a socially interactive and practical environment, where there are skills sharing, learning of new skills, and helping community-based projects. As we are a charity, these facilities are for public benefit, specifically targeting socially excluded members of the local community in Swansea.

You will have a passion for community, creativity, and crafts. This role takes overall responsibility for leading the charity to enable it to fulfil its purpose, to ensure an effective relationship between: the charity and the staff/volunteers and the charity and the external stakeholders/community, acting as a spokesperson and figurehead as appropriate, to supervise and support the Centre Manager.

You can view the full Role Description here: SCW Secretary Role Description (Sept 24)

This is an ongoing recruitment with no fixed deadline for registering your interest.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Bradley Ewers (Chair) on bradley@sccw.org.uk.

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Looking to Recruit a General Trustee for the Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and personable individual for the role of General Trustee. The main activity at Swansea Community Workshops (SCW) is to provide facilities for hobbies, recreation, and leisure time occupation in a socially interactive and practical environment, where there are skills sharing, learning of new skills, and helping community-based projects. As we are a charity, these facilities are for public benefit, specifically targeting socially excluded members of the local community in Swansea.

You can view the full Role Description here: SCW Trustee Role Description and Person Specification (Sept 24)

This is an ongoing recruitment with no fixed deadline for registering your interest.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Bradley Ewers (Chair) on bradley@sccw.org.uk.

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Looking to Recruit a Treasurer for the Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and personable individual for the role of Trustee Treasurer. The main activity at Swansea Community Workshops (SCW) is to provide facilities for hobbies, recreation, and leisure time occupation in a socially interactive and practical environment, where there are skills sharing, learning of new skills, and helping community-based projects. As we are a charity, these facilities are for public benefit, specifically targeting socially excluded members of the local community in Swansea.

You will have a passion for community, creativity, and crafts. This role takes overall responsibility for overseeing the financial affairs of the organisation and ensure they are legal, constitutional and within accepted accounting practice, ensure proper records are kept and that effective financial procedures are in place, monitor and report on the financial health of the organisation and oversee the production of necessary financial reports/returns, accounts, and audits.

You can view the full Role Description here: SCW Treasurer Role Description (Sept 24)

This is an ongoing recruitment with no fixed deadline for registering your interest.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Bradley Ewers (Chair) on bradley@sccw.org.uk.

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NOW EXTENDED! Centre Manager Vacancy

The Board of Trustees are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and personable individual for the role of Centre Manager. The main activity at Swansea Community Workshops (SCW) is to provide facilities for hobbies, recreation, and leisure time occupation in a socially interactive and practical environment, where there are skills sharing, learning of new skills, and helping community-based projects. As we are a charity, these facilities are for public benefit, specifically targeting socially excluded members of the local community in Swansea.

You will have a passion for community, creativity, and crafts. This role takes overall responsibility for the operations of the charity, based at our facilities on the High Street in Swansea. You will oversee our 4 craft studios in: pottery, sewing, glass, and woodwork. SCW is in a crucial growth stage, and this would be our first appointment in this position, so there is a huge amount of opportunity for the appointee to help develop the role and take a lead on the further development of SCW. We see the focus of this new role in the first 6 months as helping the Board to establish a sustainable budget, develop and implement our Membership plans, and generate new business and increase SCW’s reach.

You can view the full Job Description here: SCW Centre Manager – Job Description.

Application deadline is Friday 17th May, 2024. We’re looking to interview during week commencing Monday 20th May, with a decision by Tuesday 28th May.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Bradley Ewers (Chair) on bradley@sccw.org.uk.

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