- Role: Board Trustee
- Duration: Ongoing
- Hours: Voluntary
- Application deadline: Open
Job description
Join us as a Trustee
Everyone is invited
ABOUT US
Wildworks is the UK’s leading landscape theatre company. We make site-specific theatre locally, nationally and internationally.
Our official company name is Travaux Sauvages Ltd, trading as Wildworks. We were founded by Bill Mitchell in 2010 and are an independent registered charity.
We started in Cornwall, which remains our emotional and physical home. Many of our company members, Trustees and associates live here and we draw inspiration from Cornwall’s extraordinary natural and post-industrial landscape.
Our work attracts people who do not go to the theatre. We’re to be found on beaches and in woodlands, car parks, nightclubs and disused quarries, derelict department stores, castles, and further afield in medinas and refugee camps. We turn Cornwall’s lack of infrastructure into a benefit, working in the landscape rather than traditional venues.
Our practice is shaped by the defining features of Cornwall: a place in which artists naturally collaborate across artforms and with communities; a peninsula somewhere on the edge that looks outwards to the world.
The lived experience of local people is at the heart of our work. Without their participation, our work cannot happen. Our process starts with a conversation, often with marginalised communities. Local people help us shape the telling of universal, everyday human stories in ways that are familiar and re-imagined.
To date, Wildworks has delivered 33 projects in 21 countries, with over 45,000 participants performing to audiences of over a million.
Our small but mighty team is based at the Hall for Cornwall in Truro. Our talented staff are led by the Executive Director and Executive Producer.
We have a team of Founding and Associate Artists that contribute to our creative programme. We work alongside freelance artists and creatives drawn from Cornwall, the UK, and internationally.
An important part of our purpose is to support the next generation of landscape theatre makers and artists.
We are financially and organisationally stable. We are proud to be a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO), with regular funding from Arts Council England until 2026. We are also a Creative Client of Cornwall Council with funding in place until 2026.
In 2024 we are delivering our most ambitious programme to date, We Are Shining.
WHAT OUR TRUSTEES DO FOR WILDWORKS
Our Trustees are vital to the smooth running of the company.
We have no fewer than 3 Trustees at any given time, and a maximum of 7. Membership is confirmed at the annual AGM.
Trustees advise us, hold us to account, and champion our work in Cornwall and beyond. Our current Trustees have expertise as theatre makers, in business, the public sector, education, marketing, community engagement and accounting.
Some are Cornwall-based and others are further afield. Geography is not a barrier; we meet online and in-person.
As a Trustee you will:
- Commit to the Wildworks vision. Everything we do is measured against our values of being human, brave, fluid and experimental
- Take part in the board’s collective decision-making
- Scrutinise business planning and ensure robust financial management
- Accept the legal duties and responsibilities of trusteeship
- Be an ambassador for Wildworks, championing our work and helping to secure new partners and sponsors
- Attend four board meetings a year including the AGM and an away-day
- Provide advice and support to the executive team
- Attend events including our landscape theatre shows
WHAT WE OFFER
The role of Trustee is voluntary, however we provide the following:
- Financial expenses including travel, subsistence and accommodation to attend board meetings and shows
- Complimentary tickets to all Wildworks projects
- Any access support required for the role
- Training if required
- The opportunity to build your professional profile and network
- The satisfaction of sharing your expertise and passion
- That great feeling you get from contributing to something special
Trustees are appointed for a three-year term and may be reappointed for a second three-year term at the discretion of the Chair. Trustees are free to step down at any time
ABOUT YOU
You will be someone who can offer us time, commitment, valuable skills and passion
Previous experience as a Trustee is not essential. Training and support are available, including mentoring if appropriate
We welcome applications from everyone. We want our board to be as diverse as the communities we work with, so if you have any commitments or barriers which you feel exclude you from becoming a Wildworks Trustee, please get in touch. We want to learn from you how to make it possible for you to be involved.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
Please email us a written statement on one side of A4 or a two minute video or audio recording, telling us how your professional or lived experience, knowledge and skills match up to the role of a Wildworks Trustee.
Tell us what you could bring to the company, what excites you about it, and how you can help us.
You are welcome to attach your CV.
Please send your application to Julia Webb-Harvey, Chair of the Trustees – Email: juliawebbharvey.gmail.com
Julia is available for an informal chat or to answer any further questions, or you can speak to Gwen Scolding, Executive Director on gwen@wildworks.org.uk
If you’re interested but now isn’t the right time for you, let us know in any case so we can keep you in mind when we have further vacancies.
MORE INFORMATION
Email: info@wildworks.org.uk
