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We are looking for new trustees to join Ad Infinitum’s Board.

We hold a position in the UK’s cultural landscape as a diverse-led company that is internationally renowned, award-winning, and making transformative theatre through a collaborative devising process we’ve refined over 18 years. 

Our purpose is to highlight complex but urgent socio-political issues through theatre which is entertaining and accessible. We create ambitious, experimental productions that contribute to national conversations and provide opportunities for audiences to engage, respond and contribute to lesser heard perspectives on universal themes.

Looking towards an exciting future, Ad Infinitum’s current trustees and the team wish to further transform and develop our board. Through broadening the skills, knowledge and lived experience of our trustees we will ensure Ad Infintum’s board is representative of the work we make and the people we make work with and for. 

In 2024-25, we wish to recruit new trustees to our board from across the following sectors and areas of expertise:

• Artists and freelancers working in the cultural sector

• Teachers or people working in other professions in the education sector

• People with finance, organisational development, fundraising or governance expertise working in the public or cultural sector

• People with experience of working with and in communities, particularly in Bristol and the surrounding area

• People who have experience of working in policy-making, diversity and inclusion, social activism or human rights

The lived experience of our trustees is of equal importance to their professional achievements. We want our board to represent and give a voice to the collaborators we work with, our core team, our city and our audiences. We believe that a diverse board will lead to stronger and more effective governance.

We actively encourage people whose backgrounds, lived experience and skills are underrepresented in the sector to join us and positively impact our organisation. We are particularly keen to receive applications from people from the Global Majority and Deaf and disabled people to join our board.

Download the Trustee Recruitment Pack (see below) for more information.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send a CV, and cover letter which is no longer than two sides of A4 or a video in your chosen language no longer than five minutes, detailing why you’d like to join us as a Trustee, and what skills and experience you could bring to our organisation.

We’d love to hear about:

• Why our work and being a trustee at Ad Infinitum interests you 

• What you think you could bring to the role of Trustee 

• What your passions are and what inspires you

• What you need in order to do your best work. Please feel free to send an access rider if you have one.

We actively encourage applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, heritage, sexuality, gender and socio-economic background. 

Please send your application via email to Polly Davis, Executive Director at polly@ad-infinitum.org with the subject ‘Trustee Recruitment’. Please also contact Polly if you have any questions or would like to chat about the role. Once we’ve received your application we’ll contact you to have an informal chat - either online or in person - and following that will arrange for you to meet the Chair and/or Deputy Chair, Executive Director and Co-Artistic Directors (in person ideally or online if needed). If we think you would make a great trustee, we’ll ask you to attend a board meeting as an observer, before officially joining us. 

Travel expenses for meetings will be reimbursed and as part of the interview process you will be asked to confirm that you are eligible to act as a Trustee for a charity and we will carry out Disclosure and Barring Service checks.