Image: CLT Network Staff and Board Strategy Day, July 2025

Why join us?

Would you like to join a dynamic organisation supporting a growing movement for land justice and community power? Will you enjoy working in a pioneering and committed team of trustees that help inspire, guide and drive our small staff team’s ambition and achievements? We are looking for two trustees to join our board this year to help shape the future of our growing and ambitious membership network.

Community land trusts (CLTs) are a democratic, non-profit form of community ownership, defined in law. They give ordinary people the means to steward land and ensure it is used, and developed, for local wellbeing. They are established for a neighbourhood or parish, are controlled by their members who live or work locally, and hold land and assets in trust for the local community in perpetuity. They own affordable homes, community centres, shops, orchards, renewable energy systems and space for nature.

Details of this appointment

Currently we have seven trustees. We would like to recruit two new trustees so that there are nine in total (the maximum under our constitution). The role is voluntary and unpaid. There are opportunities to specialise in particular areas of interest such as joining the finance committee, representing CLTN at conferences or becoming a sponsor/adviser for one of CLTN’s projects.

About the role

Working with our existing team of trustees you will ensure that the Community Land Trust Network has the right strategy and resources to achieve transformational change, that we are well run and thrive as an organisation. 

Key tasks and accountabilities are

• Ensure the charity acts for public benefit, meets its objects set out in the constitution and retains its ethos and values.
• Ensure the charity has a clear vision and strategy, and a business plan that can deliver that strategy
• Oversee the chief executive’s discharge of the Network’s business plan through agreeing performance targets, supporting them and holding them to account for achieving this efficiently and effectively
• Manage resources responsibly and ensure the viability of the organisation
• Act as guardians for the charity’s assets and ensure the stability of the organisation 
• People: responsibility for and to staff, members and volunteers
• Act with reasonable care and skill and in the charity’s best interests by understanding your responsibilities and complying with the Trustees Code of Conduct
• Develop and ensure the maintenance of a properly constituted, balanced and competent Board
• Oversee the discharge of all legal, regulatory and contractual obligations and requirements, and ensure the charity is accountable.

To apply

Expressions of interest should be submitted by midnight on 31st August. Informal interviews will take place in late-September and we aim to appoint new trustees in October, being formally co-opted by the board of trustees at the 15th October board meeting and elected by the membership at our AGM on the 28th November.

Please find details of how to apply by downloading the Trustee Recruitment Pack. This includes a link to the expression of interest form, which asks you to upload a cover letter and CV.