Job Description

Chair for Children’s Equine Charity – Windsor Horse Rangers Limited

Windsor Horse Rangers enhances life skills through horse skills. We offer equine education in a safe and supportive environment that engages and empowers, developing wider life skills, emotional resilience and positive wellbeing.

What difference will you make?

We are looking for a supportive leader who can bring experience from a charitable or commercial environment. Your responsibilities include providing leadership and ideas for the organisation, giving strategic direction to ensure a sustainable future, representing the charity as spokesperson, chairing and facilitating trustees' meetings, and acting as a champion for our mission.

Responsibilities

• Safeguard and promote the charity’s mission
• Act as the senior representative and spokesperson for Windsor Horse Rangers
• Ensure annual and longer‑term strategic plans are developed, monitored and executed
• Ensure the Board operates to a high standard of governance and financial probity
• Ensure trustees have relevant skills and backgrounds

Skills and Experience

• Desire to empower young people to improve their skills, independence and self‑esteem
• Leadership skills to facilitate collaboration with trustees, staff and volunteers
• Strategic and financial management skills
• Governance experience at board level with voluntary/non‑profit organisations
• Working understanding (or willingness to learn) of UK charity law and legislation

Networking within the equine community or charity sector desirable.

What will you be doing?

Our committed team of trustees are looking for a volunteer chair to lead and support the team, help with decision‑making to deliver our mission, challenge us and bring fresh thinking to the role. We would like our new chair to hold us accountable for actions from the strategic plan and ensure it is developed, monitored and executed.

We meet quarterly in person and communicate via WhatsApp between meetings.