Sing Live Foundation

We are now nearer to setting up our Sing Live Foundation. The purpose of this is to support small local charities in our Sing Live Areas. We will shortly be requesting nominations for charities but first we are looking for volunteers for various roles within the Foundation. All volunteers will work under the guidance of the Grant Co-Ordinator Rachel Mellalieu. Michael Beard will be the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Laraine Cowgill will be the Secretary. Linda will chair the Trustees Meetings.

The foundation will be operated as follows

Grant Co-ordinator – will be responsible for vetting all applications and submitting them to the Board and for monitoring how the donations have been used.

The Board of Trustees – will be the decision makers for the charity.

The Fundraising Board – will be responsible for creating and co- ordinating all fundraising activities.

The Grants Panel – there will be a representative from each Sing Live Area who will support the Grant Co-ordinator with their local knowledge and visit charities to present grants and perform follow up visits.

We are looking for the following:-

The Board of Trustees - two positions
1 Treasurer – who would be required to submit the accounts to the Charities Commission, therefore an accounting or bookkeeping background would be useful.
2 Ordinary member – to be part of the decision making process – decisive, articulate, wise and impartial

In brief these two people would need to attend several initial
meetings and attend one meeting per month for the first six months.
Thereafter attend quarterly meetings. All meetings to be in the Leeds Area. The focus of the Board of Trustees is to select the charities, i.e. the grant recipients, actively promote the foundation, and liaise with the fundraising board.

The Fundraising Board - five positions

Five members are required – Creative, productive, capable, focused, determined, motivated with vision.

In brief these five people will need to

1 Liaise with the Board of Trustees
2 Liaise with the Panel Members
3 Liaise with the Grant Co-ordinator
4 Promote the Foundation generally
5 Create, Instigate and Co-ordinate all fund raising activities
6 Comply with Charity Commission Guidelines
7 Attend meetings in Leeds – possibly two initial meetings followed by bi-monthly meetings in the early stages

The Grants Panel – nine positions – one from each Sing Live Area

Nine members are required – Good communicators, outgoing, sensitive, kind, good co-ordination skills, capable.

In brief these nine people will need to

1 Be impartial
2 Commit to maximum 4 meetings per year in Leeds
3 Represent the foundation at local level with grant recipients
4 Co-ordinate, visit, present and follow up with the charity
5 Work with the Grant Co-ordinator on follow up
6 Feed in to area decision making process with Grant Co-ordinator.

The above descriptions are intended as guidelines only. It is impossible at this stage to be specific about the number of meetings etc.

All applications for the above posts to be received in writing or e- mail by 28th April to admin@singliveuk.com – headed Sing Live Foundation Posts or to 62 Thirsk Road, Northallerton, North Yorkshire DL6 1PL. Please give us your name, age range, which company you sing with or are connected to if you are not a singer and why you think you would be suitable for the post you are applying for. Let us know if you have any previous experience or involvement with other charities.

Please note that we hope to be inviting nominations for the local charities by the week commencing 21st April.