Charity Treasurer (Trustee)

Charity Treasurer (Trustee)

Kingsgate Workshops seeks applications to join its Board of Trustees as the Charity's Treasurer.

Job Description

Trustees are unpaid volunteers for the charity (registration number ) who are responsible for making sure the charity does what it was set up to do and who oversee its management.

Trustees provide support, advice, and guidance to the management team of this Kilburn-based studio provider and exhibition project space.

There is no obligation for you to have previously served on a board before becoming a Trustee at KWT. We are currently looking to recruit a trustee with financial experience to become the board's treasurer.

They will be responsible for working with the Director to present and explain KWT's state of finances to Trustees, to identify risks and recommend how to mitigate against them. Your background is likely to be as an accountant, finance manager or similar. The charity's turnover is under GBP0.5m.

Job Responsibilities

From 2025, the Board of Trustees will meet 4 times a year. Board meetings take place on a weekday evening between 6.30-8.30pm, in person at the charity's premises in London NW6.

Additionally, the Board holds a bi-annual Awayday to focus on strategic matters and hosts annual Q&A sessions with the studio-holders.

This post has a 3-year term with options at the end of which to be renewed in post.

All Trustees are expected to provide strategic and governance oversight of KWT by working with the other members of the Board to support the Chair and Director of KWT to ensure good governance and help plan and fulfil the strategic aims of the charity as well as:

• Supporting and advising the Executive team in their areas of expertise
• Being collectively responsible for the governance of the charity with the other board members, ensuring that KWT acts in accordance with its governing documents and applicable legislation
• Ensuring that KWT uses its resources exclusively to further its charitable objects
• Exercising control over the financial affairs of KWT and protecting its assets, ensuring that the charity is financially sustainable
• Carrying out their duties and making decisions at all times in the best interests of KWT
• Attending and contributing to Board Meetings
• Attending bi-annual Q&A sessions with the director and KWTs studio users.
• Acting as an ambassador for KWT.

For more information on the roles and responsibilities of a trustee please refer to the Charity Commission guidance - here. KWT would welcome applications from any member of the community.

About Kingsgate Workshops & Project Space

Kingsgate Workshops is a provider of affordable studios and workshops in Kilburn, London NW6 for artists and craft makers. We currently offer 43 self-contained and secure studios within a large Victorian warehouse building located on a residential street. KWT purchased a long lease on our building in 2005. Having paid off our founding loans, we are in the process of re-financing to undertake capital work to ensure the long life of our building.

Our cohort of studio licensees include makers who have been with us for 30+ years and others who are emerging practitioners. Approximately 60% of our studio users are involved in crafts including jewellery, ceramics, glass and furniture making. 40% of our studios are used by painters, sculptors, printmakers and interdisciplinary artists. This mix of skills and methodologies makes Kingsgate a lively and friendly working environment where collaboration and support between makers is common.

Most studios are lone working spaces, some are shared by 2 or more makers, and some studios host regular classes or provide space for supervised and supported access to facilities such as ceramic kilns. Over 100 people use Kingsgate Workshops every week, and arts and craft works by our makers have recently been exhibited in Collect, London; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Compton Verney Museum, Warwickshire; Mendes Wood Gallery, S??o Paulo; Sadie Coles Gallery, London and The British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent. Our makers have also brought joy into many homes through TV shows The Great Pottery Throwdown and All That Glitters.

10% of incomes from studio rents support a programme of public-facing exhibitions, events and residencies that take place at Kingsgate Project Space. This programme works with artists at key stages in their professional development offering critical conversation, production and sharing space for the testing of ideas and art works. Kingsgate contributes to London's artistic landscape, and to its diverse and empowered future, by creating idiosyncratic opportunities for artists who do not, or do not yet have similar opportunities elsewhere.