Hestia

Join us to make a difference! Hestia’s expertise and experience is in supporting people to recover from crisis and trauma. Hestia began providing support to adults in crisis in 1970 after founder Jim Horne experienced street homelessness in London. He started a soup kitchen run for men and women living on the streets and worked with local authorities to provide accommodation. Within the year, over 800 people were provided with a safe space to sleep at night.

Today our 750 staff  continue that mission primarily across London and the southeast. We also campaign and advocate nationally on the issues that affect the people we work with. This includes people with mental health struggles, victims and survivors of modern slavery and domestic abuse, adults involved in the criminal justice system, care leavers and older people. From finding someone a home, to helping them to get the right mental health support, we support people at the moment of crisis and enable them to build a life beyond a crisis. We are supported by over 600 volunteers whose generosity with their skills and time enable us to provide these essential services.

Working in collaboration with commissioners and partners , we strive to ensure that everyone whom we support is enabled to lead a life with safety, hope and purpose. Our staff and volunteers build honest, respectful relationships with our service users to support and encourage them to lead their own recovery process. In everything we do we seek to be: respectful; genuine; dedicated; collaborative; and courageous.

We have recently launched our 2024-29 strategy, a key element of which is to diversify existing partnerships and grow our philanthropic income to be able to support more people across London and the southeast.

It is in this context we seek to appoint a Trustee who, in addition to carrying out their governance responsibilities, will bring valuable knowledge and experience of grant-making and philanthropy.  Our new Trustee will challenge us to be ambitious in our thinking around income-generation and add to our understanding of what we need to do to elevate our fundraising from circa £1.7 million currently to £3.2m by 2028/9.  Together with other board colleagues, you will work with our Chief Executive, Director of Fundraising and Communications and the wider team as we look to build our capacity, reach and impact.

We are champions of diversity and believe in the power of a wide range of backgrounds and ways of thinking to enrich our organisation and our outputs. We welcome applications from people with the widest possible range of backgrounds.

Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to Hestia on this appointment. For further information about the role, including details about how to apply, please visit www.saxbam.com/appointments using reference RAQAQC. Alternatively telephone +44 (0)20 7227 0800 (during office hours). Applications should be received by noon on Monday 27 May.