Trustees, Old Diorama Arts Centre

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Old Diorama Arts Centre


Job: Trustees, Old Diorama Arts Centre

Job: Trustees, Old Diorama Arts Centre

Organisation: Old Diorama Arts Centre

Postcode: NW1 3FE

  • Job Title: Trustees, Old Diorama Arts Centre
  • Salary: Unpaid
  • Hours:
    Part time
  • Artform: Combined arts
  • Role: Admin, Secretarial & PA
  • Contract: Permanent
  • Closing date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026

  • Location:

    London

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Job Summary

Old Diorama Arts Centre is looking to recruit three or four new Trustees to join the Board, able to lend their experience, perspective and guidance to elements of our activity, programmes and identified needs for organisational development.

Job Description

We are looking to recruit three or four new Trustees to join the Board, able to lend their experience, perspective and guidance to elements of our activity, programmes and identified needs for organisational development.

As a registered charity (Diorama Arts Centre), ODAC is governed by a Board of Trustees – a group of volunteers who lend their professional and personal experience to oversee the organisation. While day-to-day management and programmes are delegated to the staff team, the Trustees are ultimately responsible for the finances and direction of the charity.

We need a truly diverse team at all levels that reflects the communities that we serve. ODAC is committed to developing a team at all levels with diverse skills, backgrounds and lived experiences.

We are looking for people with some of the following professional experience (not in order of priority):

  • Commercial theatre, TV, film production and business

  • Supporting people with lived experience of homelessness

  • Senior leadership of a subsidised-sector arts organisation

  • Leading business financial growth and organisational scaling

  • Artists / socially-engaged artistic practice

  • Public health, social prescribing or ‘creative health’

  • Urban development/planning

  • Communications and marketing

  • Charity fundraising

Job Requirements

As a registered charity (Diorama Arts Centre), ODAC is governed by a Board of Trustees – a group of volunteers who lend their professional and personal experience to oversee the organisation. While day-to-day management and programmes are delegated to the staff team, the Trustees are ultimately responsible for the finances and direction of the charity.

The roles and responsibilities of Trustees in charities include:

Being the Legal Directors of the company, and those related responsibilities

Decision-makers / approvers

Scrutineers of decisions and finances

Overseers of good practice and compliance

Challengers and advisors (specialist and non-specialist)

Connection and opportunity builders

Cheerleaders for the charity / narrative-builders for its importance and relevance

Representatives of the charity’s stakeholders and communities

Representatives of our beneficiaries’ communities

Supporters of the staff, and the collective line manager for the CEO

Fundraisers

How to Apply

For full application info, please download the recruitment pack here: https://olddiorama.com/news/trustee-recruitment-2025

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