Become a Trustee

Welcome from Richard Dyton, Chair

Thank you for your interest in London Legal Support Trust.

The Trust raises funds to enable Law Centres, local Citizens Advice and other advice agencies to continue to help vulnerable people access legal advice. Those that the advice centres help include families facing homelessness, older people requiring community care, trafficked women and children, people with disabilities, refugees, people who are facing unemployment, discrimination and those with mental health problems.

Our funding has never been more vital. Many vulnerable people cannot afford to pay for advice or enforce their rights. The legal advice agencies we support provide life-changing free legal advice to people who face issues such as housing, debt, domestic violence, immigration and benefits. Our funding enables them to access the help they so desperately need.

Trustees play a key role in supporting the charity to achieve its aims and objectives through a professional staff team.

We seek to appoint trustees with a vision, energy and passion for access to justice. We welcome applications from people who share our passion and values, and we would particularly like to hear from those with the following experience:

• Fundraising and communications, particularly with individual and major donors’ fundraising expertise
• Financial management
• Legal advice sector experience
• Corporate law firms’ expertise — senior partners at law firms/barristers
• Judiciary

Having a board that reflects the diversity of the communities that our grants support is also important to us. We are therefore always keen to hear from people with range of backgrounds and experiences. 

Register your interest with LLST

If you would like to register your interest in becoming a trustee, please email your CV and a cover letter to [email protected].

Closing date for the applications: Sunday, 5^th January 2025.

Initial interviews with shortlisted candidates: w/c 13^th  January 2025.