We Are Recruiting — Board of Trustees

We Are Recruiting — Board of Trustees

Sunnyside Rural Trust is a Hertfordshire based charity providing training services to adults and young people with learning disabilities. We are a thriving charity and social enterprise offering training and work experience for 174 vulnerable people. We train people with learning disabilities to acquire skills in a number of rural activities. These include beekeeping, looking after chickens, growing a wide range of plants and produce, landscaping and garden maintenance.  We have a focus on the full “plot to plate” cycle, from sowing seeds and nurturing plants to making produce to sell in the farm shops or at markets. We do all of this as environmentally friendly as possible.  Our training and work experience take place across Dacorum in Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Northchurch in a range of tranquil settings. These include ancient woodland, allotments, orchards, greenhouses and cafes and farm shops.

Sunnyside is a charitable trust and currently has a 5 strong Board of Trustees,  a Senior Management Team of 6 led by a CEO and COO plus some 50 staff.  Short biographies of the current Trustees can be found on our website (here).  As Sunnyside continues to grow the scope and extent of the services it provides as well as its geographic coverage, we need to expand and diversify the Board of Trustees to manage that future expansion.   We are looking for new Trustees who share our vision and  who can show commitment to our mission and share our core values.

For information on what becoming a Trustee means, please look at the Joining the Board of Trustees page on our website.