Disability Arts Online
- Job Title: Trustees
- Salary: Unpaid
- Hours:
Full time - Role: Creative
- Contract: Permanent
- Closing date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025
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Location:
UK-wide
Job Summary
Job Description
Are you passionate about a society that is fair and equitable for everyone? Would you like to help ensure disabled people thrive in arts and culture?
Join Disability Arts Online’s (DAO) Board of Trustees and make a meaningful impact, using your skills and experience to support a charitable organisation in achieving its mission.
Disability Arts Online is dedicated to increasing the number of disabled people in arts and cultural governance. Through our constitution our board committed to 80% of trustees identifying as disabled. Every time we look for new board members, we want disabled people to apply.
We acknowledge that institutional racism, discrimination and inequality exists in our sector and understand that disability is an intersectional experience. As such, we are strongly committed to ensuring that people from diverse backgrounds and protected characteristics help steer our organisation. We are actively seeking to increase representation of young people (under 30) and people from global majority backgrounds.
If you are interested but would like a chat with a trustee or Trish Wheatley (CEO) before applying, please contact mailto:[email protected] – [email protected]
Job Requirements
We are looking for people who:
- are interested in volunteering their time and share the benefit of their lived experience and expertise
- share our vision of widespread appreciation for the richness and diversity of disability arts and culture
- support our mission to champion disability arts and culture through nurturing creativity, connection and critique
- share DAO’s values of Empathy, Learning, Rigour, Accountability and Social Justice.
- are committed to ensuring disabled people thrive in arts and culture and a wider society that is fair and equitable for everyone.
You don’t need previous experience of being on a board to apply, but having commitment and enthusiasm is essential. We will provide induction and training tailored to your needs and experience.
DAO is particularly looking for applicants who bring knowledge and expertise in any of the following areas:
- AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Legal
- Digital archiving
- Software, systems and web development
- Policy development and
How to Apply
Read, watch or listen to the Trustee Pack from the Disability Arts Online website.
Send your CV and a letter of application (max 2 pages of A4) detailing:
– Why you would like to join Disability Arts Online’s board of Trustees
– What skills you bring
– How your lived experience and expertise would inform your contribution to the board
Please also complete an equal opportunities form.
Feel free to send your application in writing or as a video or audio if this is more accessible for you.
Send these to [email protected] before 5pm on Thursday 31 July 2025.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend DAO’s board meeting at 12-2pm on Friday 5th September.
- Contact name: Trish Wheatley
- Contact email: [email protected]
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