Join the Board of Borders Music Festival, formerly Melrose Music Festival.
The Borders Music Festival (BMF) celebrates creativity, collaboration and community. Each September, we bring world-class artists and locals together, inspiring audiences and young people with music of the highest quality.
We are building a dynamic Board of Trustees to help us realise our vision to bring world-class music to the Borders while creating meaningful impact for local people, especially young people.
Who We’re Looking For
We welcome applications from people who are passionate about culture, music, and the Borders community. Previous board experience is not essential — we value energy, commitment, and the ability to bring new perspectives.
All trustees should be:
- Supportive of BMF’s vision and values
- Strategic thinkers, willing to contribute to planning and decision-making
- Advocates for the festival, helping raise our profile and connections
- Collaborative and community-minded
Priority Skills for 2026 Recruitment
We are particularly seeking trustees with expertise in:
- Fundraising & Development – experience with sponsorship, philanthropy, and the development of progressive funding streams
- Marketing & Communications – skills in PR, audience development, and digital media
- Finance & Governance – financial oversight, charity governance and business management
We also welcome interest from those with experience in:
- Community & Local Partnerships – strong connections to the Borders region
- Artistic and Cultural Sector Experience – insight into music, festivals and the arts sector
Why Join Us?
- Shape the future of an emerging festival with national ambitions
- Strengthen culture and community life in the Borders
- Build new networks and contribute your expertise to a growing organisation
- Be part of a supportive and collaborative Board team
- Support our growth as we change to become the Borders Music Festival in 2026
Help Shape the Future for Unpaid Carers in East Lothian.
Are you passionate about supporting unpaid carers and making a lasting difference in your community?
Would you like to use your skills, insight and experience to help a local charity grow, strengthen and thrive?
Carers of East Lothian has been championing unpaid carers since 1996 — and as we celebrate 30 years of making a difference, we’re just getting started.
As a leading third sector organisation, we support, empower and amplify the voices of unpaid carers across East Lothian. With demand for our services growing and an ambitious new 5-year strategy launching, there’s never been a more exciting time to get involved.
Join our Board and help shape the next chapter of our journey — your experience, insight and passion could make a real difference.
Why Join Our Board?
As a Trustee, you’ll play a vital role in shaping the future of our charity. Working collaboratively with fellow Board members, you will provide strategic leadership, governance and oversight to ensure we remain true to our mission and values.
You will:
- Help shape and influence our long-term vision and strategy
- Contribute to meaningful discussions at Board meetings
- Ensure strong governance and compliance with legal responsibilities
- Oversee financial sustainability and organisational resilience
- Support and constructively challenge senior staff and volunteers
- Act as an ambassador, championing our work and building partnerships
This is a rewarding opportunity to make a tangible impact in your community, develop your leadership skills, and gain valuable experience in charity governance. Previous Board experience is not necessary.
Who We are Looking For?
- An individual with commitment to the mission, vision, values and objectives of the charity
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Integrity and sound judgement
- Think and apply knowledge creatively and strategically
- Experience of or an understanding of the demands on unpaid carers
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. We are especially keen to hear from individuals who can bring diverse perspectives or lived experience connected to unpaid caring.
While we would particularly value skills in finance, law, fundraising, communications, or HR, enthusiasm, commitment and a genuine belief in our mission are just as important.
If you want to help create a stronger future for unpaid carers in East Lothian, we’d love to hear from you.
Top job! Head of Legal Services
- Full time
- £48,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh or Glasgow with requirement to regularly visit our other office
- Closing 5th April 2026
The Head of Legal Services will provide line management, leadership, and professional support to legal staff, strengthening child-centred practice and building confidence and capacity across the team.
You will ensure the legal team is equipped to deliver high-impact, child-centred legal services that empower children and young people to use the law to make positive change in their lives.
The role will oversee the effective management of legal resources and the day-to-day operation of the legal practice, ensuring the smooth delivery of Clan’s services. These include child-centred legal outreach, the Children’s Rights Helpline, lawyer-led training, Legal Support for Advocacy, and the Lawyers for Children programme.
You will provide operational leadership across legal practice management, including finance and compliance, case-flow and resource planning, project delivery, partnership and stakeholder relationships, and the monitoring and evaluation of service impact.
The Head of Legal Services will also contribute to the strategic planning and development of Clan’s services, strengthening the organisation’s role within the communities we serve and supporting Clan’s strategy to work alongside others to improve children’s access to justice and their ability to exercise their rights.
About you
Showing a genuine commitment to the mission of Clan Childlaw you will be a proactive, solutions‑focused, confident leader who shapes positive team culture through integrity, clarity, and consistency. With a solid background in legal practice management or senior operations within professional services, you will have experience of leading operational change and allocation of resources to multiple workstreams to balance demand, sustainability, and staff wellbeing. You will be someone who delegates effectively and works alongside their team, taking ownership of performance, compliance, and effectiveness to ensure the teams success.
You will have the ability to deliver on plans and reporting frameworks for legal services that strengthen accountability and demonstrate impact. You will have experience of using insight from data, financial reporting, and feedback to drive continuous improvement and inform operational and strategic decisions.
About Clan Childlaw
Clan Childlaw stands with children and young people when they stand up for their rights.
Clan is an award-winning, independent children’s charity that actively supports children and young people to take ownership of their rights.
We are the only charity in Scotland that provides free, independent legal representation exclusively for children and young people, which is child-centred by design. Because our lawyers work directly with children and young people whose lives are affected by legal decisions, we bring that unique practice-based knowledge to every aspect of our work. This includes our specialist training, our helpline supporting others who help children to use their voices and their rights, and our work to influence children’s rights respecting changes to practice, policy and law.
What We Do
We stand with others who help children use their rights – Through our membership and training for legal professionals and in legal education we are making being a “children’s lawyer” an accredited legal skill set in Scotland. Our practical training and helpline and support for advocacy in Children’s Hearings provides adults that support children and young people information and guidance that they can use to empower young people to stand up for their rights.
We stand out through the excellence of our work – We want our work to have as much impact as possible. We listen to what children and young people tell us about what they need from lawyers and others who support them to use their rights. We use what we learn to develop and design the services they need and talk about why young people’s rights matter, and why children and young people need lawyers.
We stand for change – We are lawyers for children and young people representing children and young people in court, at Children’s Hearings, and in important meetings working to give them equal opportunity to heard and use their rights. We take cases that make change for individual children and young people and help shape better rights respecting policy and practice. We use our knowledge of the law, and experience as practising lawyers for children and young people, to ask decision makers and lawmakers to change the law and the way the law is used to make sure that children and young people's rights are respected, protected and fulfilled.
Our Values
Our values are the principles we uphold in all our work, no matter what. They are the foundation of our workplace culture. Everyone who works at Clan shows our values in all they do and say.
We are supportive: We listen and respond, we provide encouragement and emotional help to children and young people, to others who support young people, and to each other.
We are bold: We are confident and courageous in amplifying the voices of children and young people. We are prepared to take risks when we need to, to defend children and young people’s rights.
We are dynamic: We are always active, always progressing. We are positive, full of energy and new ideas. We ask for change where it is needed.
What we can offer you
Clan Childlaw’s mission is very important to us, but our people are important too. We recognise the importance of a good work-life balance and a friendly supportive work environment. We offer:
- 33 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays) increasing to 35 after 2 years’ service
- Auto-enrolment into our pension scheme after 3 months service
- Offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the option to choose the base location that works best for you.
- Flexibility around your working day and the option to work from home some of the time.
- Access to our employee counselling service.
Learning and development is important to us and our team. We hope it’s important to you too. You will be encouraged to engage in learning and continued professional development.
"I have never worked in such a lovely organisation before! I feel valued, seen and heard as an individual here." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
"I love my job at Clan. It's busy and varied and no two days are ever the same. We have a great team here and everyone is really supportive." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
Head of Lung Cancer Information & Support Services
- Full time or Part time
- £30,000 – £36,000
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 30th April 2026
About the team
The Information & Support team is based in Glasgow and Liverpool and offers a range of services to people affected by lung cancer across the UK. The team works closely with our Research, Finance, Income generation and Marketing teams based in Liverpool. Our main activities include distributing information designed to support medical understanding and psychological coping; delivering our Ask the Nurse service which provides support and advice; supporting people affected by lung cancer face to face via our Support Group network and Information Days; and our Connect online and 1-1 support services, promoting awareness of signs and symptoms and the benefit of early diagnosis of lung cancer.
About the role
You will be working in the department dealing directly with people affected by lung cancer. The post holder will provide operational management and engagement for our growing range of information and support services. This role will focus on building our service capacity, systems and profile. It will contribute to the involvement of people affected by lung cancer in the services, advocacy and policy reach of the charity.
Bold Studio is looking for an organised and driven Studio Co-ordinator to keep work moving, stay on top of the detail and ensure clients are kept in the loop. We are an award-winning social enterprise design studio producing creative work with purpose. We deliver rebrands, campaigns, animation and websites that help organisations with social and environmental aims grow their impact and win hearts and minds. You’ll work across multiple projects as part of a small, experienced creative team and be at the heart of a studio that is busy, collaborative, ambitious and grounded in making a difference through work that improves lives, communities and the environment.
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We are a dynamic and forward-thinking charitable organisation rooted in North Lanarkshire, supporting children and adults with disabilities and additional support needs. We are looking for committee members to assist us in delivering our services – check us out at:
No experience is required, as we are looking for individuals with life experience. However, experience of Social Services (as a service user), or skills in finance or social media, would also be welcomed.
The position is unpaid, but expenses are covered.
As part of our Board, you will help shape how the charity moves forward and be involved in delivering our services. As a Trustee, you will have a real opportunity to offer your unique skillset to help shape the progression of our work, while contributing your input and experience to the community.
Induction and training are provided, and we welcome applicants who have had no previous experience of being a Board member, but who would like to benefit from the experience.
The Croft Family Support - Supporting Visitors at HMP Barlinnie
Welcoming, Connecting and Supporting Families and Visitors is at the core of what we do here at the Croft
Providing practical and emotional support, information and advice to the families who come into contact with HMP Barlinnie, improving the visits experience and through an earlier intervention model, supporting complex needs, easing often extremely difficult life circumstances for children and families - including the multi-faceted impacts of deep poverty.
Role
Do you want to help make a difference to the lives of families affected by another’s imprisonment – this is a group of people, including many children, often marginalised and severely impacted, practically, emotionally and financially by the actions of another. Want to learn new skills in the process? - you can by becoming a volunteer Board Member for the Croft at HMP Barlinnie and help us to lead and guide the Management Team and staff to deliver the ambitions sets out in our 5 year strategy.
What we are looking for
We welcome applicants from any background and experience, including people who have been personally impacted. We welcome all skills but do have particular skills gaps we would love to bring aboard –
- Communications Experience - to further guide and help us develop work we have already undertaken to improve our communications offering as we grow and diversify our work
- Commercial business experience (particularly Social Enterprises / Community Interest Companies) – to support the further development of our Social Enterprise ambitions - supporting a more self-sustaining approach to our funding
- Bookkeeping / Accounts – finance – as we grow and diversify what we offer we find ourselves managing more complex funding arrangements
- Other experience and skills will always be welcomed – a cross section of skills is what makes our Board such a great environment to work in
What you get from being a Board Member
- The chance to give something back into the community and make a real difference to the lives of families impacted by imprisonment - Becoming a Trustee is a fantastic way to give something back to a cause you care about. You’ll be playing an integral part in the way the charity is run, ensuring it remains sustainable and financially viable. The help you provide will be invaluable.
- Meet new people - joining a new organisation or charity is a fantastic way to meet new people from a range of different personal and professional backgrounds. There will be meetings to attend (the Board itself meets quarterly), projects to get involved.
- Learn new things - getting involved as a charity Trustee is a great way to put your professional skills to use, but can also be a fantastic opportunity to learn new things. You’ll get great insight into what’s involved in the management of charities and gain skills on working well within a leadership role.
- Improve your CV and enhance your professional development - from learning how organisations are run to planning finances and attending meetings, this experience can be the perfect way to boost a CV and set you apart from the crowd.
Background
For more information about the Croft and its work see:
Visit our new website: Home | The Croft HMP Barlinnie Visitors Centre | 81 Lee Ave, Glasgow City, G33 2QX
Visit our Facebook page: facebook.com/CroftVisitorsService
Good Food Scotland is looking for new Trustees to join the Board as the organisation moves into its next stage.
Across Glasgow we run nine community food shops, employ 19 staff and spend more than £350,000 each year on food for our members. The scale of the work is significant and it reflects the scale of the challenge facing many households across the city.
Most of our shops are based in communities experiencing some of the highest levels of deprivation in Scotland, including areas ranked among the most deprived on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. In many of these neighbourhoods access to affordable, healthy food is limited, while wider pressures around housing costs, debt, energy bills and low income continue to shape everyday life for many families.
Food poverty rarely exists on its own. More often it reflects wider poverty and inequality. Our approach starts with food, but it does not stop there.
Food is often the reason someone first walks through the door. After that, the aim is to make sure people can access the wider support that helps them feel more secure, more connected and better able to cope with the pressures they are facing.
Our shops provide access to affordable, nutritious food and they also act as community spaces where people can meet others, find advice and connect with local support. We work alongside partners such as Govan Law Centre, One Parent Families Scotland and energy advice services, while the shops themselves are delivered in partnership with housing associations including Wheatley Group, Linthouse Housing Association, Sanctuary Scotland and Southside Housing Association. Through these partnerships members can access help with issues that often sit behind food poverty in the first place.
Until now the work has been delivered as part of the Feeding Britain network. We are now establishing Good Food Scotland as an independent Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation, while continuing to work closely with Feeding Britain as a partner. This is an important step for the organisation, and it brings an opportunity to strengthen governance and shape how the charity develops over the coming years.
Our ambition is to build a model that is financially sustainable and capable of growing into other communities across Scotland.
About the role
Trustees play an important part in guiding the organisation and making sure it remains well run and focused on the communities it exists to serve. The Board works closely with the leadership team, offering support, challenge and oversight, helping shape the longer term direction of the charity while making sure strong governance and financial responsibility remain in place.
What we are looking for
As the organisation continues to grow we are particularly keen to hear from people who bring experience in one or more of the following areas.
Commercial retail experience, particularly where you understand how multi site operations work in practice and where improvements to systems, stock management or logistics could strengthen how the shops run.
Finance or accounting experience, ideally someone who may be willing to take on the role of Treasurer and help the Board maintain strong financial oversight.
Legal experience, helping ensure the charity meets its responsibilities and operates within the appropriate governance framework.
Previous board experience can be helpful but it is not essential. Practical knowledge, sound judgement and a willingness to contribute are just as important. We would also welcome interest from people whose lived experience reflects the communities we work alongside.
Why join the Board
Good Food Scotland is already working at scale across Glasgow and making a real difference in communities that face some of the toughest economic pressures in the country. Joining the Board offers the opportunity to contribute to work that is practical, community rooted and focused on long term change.
For those with relevant experience it is also a chance to help shape the organisation as it establishes itself as an independent charity and looks at how the model can grow into other communities.
Time commitment
Trustees attend quarterly board meetings, with occasional input between meetings when needed. Meetings may take place more regularly over the next 12months, with Trustees able to attend in person in Glasgow or online.
If you are interested in using your experience to support communities across Glasgow and help shape the future direction of Good Food Scotland, we would be pleased to hear from you.
Communications & Support Officer
- Part time
- £28,449 pro-rata
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 13th April 2026
The Diocese of Edinburgh is looking for a Communications & Support Officer to join our small administrative team supporting the Bishop to deliver a range of services for the Diocese.
Job Purpose
To support the Diocesan team in the delivery of the priorities of the Diocese, especially in the support for discipleship and ministry, ensuring all aspects of communications, meeting support and general administrative support are delivered. With a focus on support for the work of the Diocesan Mission & Ministry Committee and its Convenor.
Terms
- Salary – £18,966 pro-rata (f.t.e. £28,449)
- Hours – 25 hours per week
- Benefits – 25 days holidays + 10 Public Holidays (pro-rata).
About Us
The Diocese of Edinburgh is one of 7 dioceses which form the structure of the Scottish Episcopal Church, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Each Diocese is run by a Diocesan Bishop who oversees the spiritual and practical concerns of all the clergy and lay (non-ordained) people within their own diocese. The Diocese of Edinburgh covers the City of Edinburgh, the Lothians and stretches from the Firth of Forth down to the English border.
The Diocesan Office supports the Bishop of Edinburgh in the delivery of the priorities of the Diocese. It is accountable for the management and delivery of a range of services for the Diocese, particularly mission and ministry, governance, finance, buildings and communications.
The new role of Diocesan Office Communications & Support Officer has been created to re-align the workflows of the office and increase the efficiency of the small administrative team. There is a friendly culture of sharing and collaboration amongst the staff, along with the diocese’s commitment to both personal and professional development for all staff.
About us
The Super Power Agency exists to help young people write their story and to stay with them while they grow into it.
We are a small organisation with big ideas, grounded in the belief that creative writing is not a ‘nice to have’, but an essential skill.
Writing builds confidence, literacy, empathy and self-expression.
When young people are given the space to imagine freely and the structure to shape their ideas, their worlds open up.
The Role
We are looking for someone who believes in the long game. Someone who understands that impact is not only measured in numbers, but in confidence gained, stories remembered, and lives quietly shaped. Someone who can offer strategic guidance, governance oversight and thoughtful challenge all while holding fast to the values that make this organisation special.
The coming years are significant. We are growing our reach, deepening partnerships, expanding into new communities,
and working towards a long-held ambition: creating a dedicated writing centre where young people can flourish and write freely.
As our Chair of Trustees, you’ll provide leadership, support and a bit of magic to help guide our charity’s vision and direction.
- Lead the Board in shaping our strategy and keeping our mission at the heart of every decision.
- Work closely with the CEO to champion creativity, confidence and sustainability across everything we do.
- Be an ambassador for the Super Power Agency by helping to build partnerships, open doors and spread our story far and wide.
- Ensure our governance and finances are strong, inclusive and focused on supporting young people.
This role is perfect for someone who wants to make a real difference while bringing their leadership, collaboration and
imagination to the table.