Home-Start Preseli is asking people with professional skills to step forward and be volunteer trustees to help guide and oversee its work supporting local families with young children.
The charity, one of 337 local Home-Start schemes across the UK, helps families with children under five. Parents may be finding it hard to cope because of bereavement or a multiple birth or due to the disability or illness of themselves or a child or even because they are very young, or separated from their own families.
The appeal is part of the charity's UK-wide 'We're Asking' campaign which aims to recruit a further 500 volunteer trustees. According to the National Centre for Volunteering, 11 million people would volunteer if asked: Home-Start is asking.
Tina Webb, of Home-Start Preseli, said: "We need people with a broad range of skills to become members of our board of trustees, from managers of small businesses and lawyers, to people with an understanding of information technology, human resources, finance or accounting.
"Being a Home-Start trustee is all about governance. The trustees don't run the scheme on a day-to-day basis - that's the job of paid staff - but are responsible for the vision and strategy of the scheme, as well as its finances, staff and property. And whilst this is a serious commitment with legal and financial responsibilities, they have no personal financial liability as each Home-Start scheme is either already a company limited by guarantee or is about to become one.
"In return for volunteering for up to 10 hours a month, trustees will be able to enhance their own skills, knowledge, self-confidence and professional networks and know that they have made a real difference to families in their own community."
For more information about becoming a trustee, contact Home-Start Preseli on (01348) 872 727 email [email protected]">[email protected].