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Reference – TRMKF18 Vacancy Type – Trustee
Region – Nation Wide
Join our board of trustees
Monica Kirk Foundation is seeking professionals – with Legal, Fundraising, Marketing and International Development experience – to join its board of trustees. The board currently draws on a broad spectrum of experience and includes individuals with community education, information technology, financial and healthcare experience. Our new trustees would bring experience in bid writing, marketing and provide invaluable advice and support for the work that Monica Kirk Foundation undertakes.
Background
Our Work:
A fledgeling charity based in the UK and operating overseas to create a safe, friendly and open environment offering support to impoverished children and young adults.
Our Aims & Vision:
Our aims are to build a health clinic that provides support for impoverished children and young adults. We will employ qualified staff who will provide basic health checks, promote continued health care, emotional support and improved literacy facilities. We aim to create a safe, friendly and open environment that welcomes the local community and in particular, those in need of our facilities/services. Our vision is for The Monica Kirk Foundation to become a central hub in the community, alleviating pressure on the families and empowering the children. We will provide basic health care and tools to inspire lives, address basic needs and increase literacy in an area locally known as ‘Garden House Compound’, within Lusaka West.
What the charity does:
- General charitable purposes.
- Education and training.
- The advancement of health or saving of lives.
- The prevention or relief of poverty.
- Economic and community development.
Who the charity helps:
- Adults, Children and young people from the Garden House Compound of Lusaka, Zambia.
How the charity delivers support:
- Provides human resources.
- Provides buildings/facilities/open spaces.
- Provides services.
- Provides advocacy/advice/information.
Monica Kirk Foundation is a Charitable Organisation, registered with and regulated by the Charity Commission. Our work is undertaken by our trustees. We do not currently employ any members of staff.
What’s involved?
As a trustee, you would be instrumental in planning the strategic future of the charity. You would be responsible for ensuring that it is accountable to its beneficiaries, to the Charity Commission and the public in general.
Prospective trustees will be expected to play a role in the operation of the charity, for example by contributing to training, research or publications, attending events, and speaking to the media, depending on the trustee’s particular skills and interests. The board usually meets 6 times a year. We expect trustees to participate in a majority of meetings either in person or via video conferencing or telephone.
Potential trustees must be eligible to become charity trustees.
Next steps
If you wish to proceed, you should email a letter of interest and a CV to the Chair of Trustees.
Contact Email – silvia.kirk@monicakirkfoundation.org.uk
Further information
More information on the role of a trustee, including conditions for eligibility, is available from the Charity Commission:https://www.gov.uk/topic/running-charity/trustee-role-board
Newsletter Summer 2014
Summer 2014Firstly we would like to thank all who have supported us so far, with your help we have managed to raise £3131.51. Your donations have been received with gratitude. Our plan is to provide antenatal and under 5’s medical support to those in the Garden House area of Lusaka Zambia. Our initial thought were to build a facility on the land, having evaluated this further we are now looking at more cost-effective ways to try to do this as building a structure was going to cost us roughly £150,000. Our plan now is to buy a few porta cabin/ static welfare unit/ modular building style structure as the cost is brought down by over £100,000. An example of which can be found below:  blue portacabin We are not far of from being able to purchase our first one and once shipped to Zambia, services can start with immediate effect. Our goal is to get help out there as soon as we can. In the mean time we are trying to help a small school very close to the location of the clinic. The charity run school is called the Tukela school foundation. Any donations of books, uniforms etc would make a difference to so many lives. Educating the future population of Zambia is the key to sustainable change. A few details below about the school. Tukela School FoundationMission statement We believe that by offering challenging and creative learning using a variety of extra-curricular activities alongside class based learning our goal is to equip our students with the skills and disposition to continue their education by taking appropriate calculated risks to deal with challenges head on with confidence and not fear. Using innovative techniques and technology to provide a varied learning environment for the students our focus is on instilling a strong reading culture and a strong desire and self-discipline to learn. Vision Provide the best academic program possible for a comprehensive education of our students. We live in a knowledge age therefore we feel it is our duty to encourage our students to develop life-long learning skills which are the ongoing self-motivated pursuit of knowledge in order to apply the right knowledge effectively. Core values
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What have we been up to?
Update – June 2014
Well honestly speaking the past two years have really been incredible. I have learnt a great deal, as have the trustees. It has become quite clear that patience is a great skill to have in this industry. I guess I thought it would be easy! We’d register the charity, find out what the need was and then raise funds and then get the help to those who need it. I had an idealistic view on life.
What I’m begining to understand is that as in every industry there are rules and regulations to ensure things are done properly.
So, back to the question – What have we been up to? Here are a few things we have been up to:
- Registering the Charity officially in the UK and Zambia
- Getting costings for building works
- Running Our first campaign
- Regrouping to look at more cost effective ways to deliver services in Zambia
- Seeking advice from those who are in the industry
Zambia Research Trip
Zambia Research
In July 2012 two trustees went to the Garden House Compound in Lusaka. The area in which the Monica Kirk Foundation has a plot of land. The aim was to consult with the people living in the area, to see how best we can benefit them.
We spent some time talking to individuals and groups within the area. We asked questions and listened to what the people thought was a priority to them.
An overwhelming majority of the residents said they needed medical facilities, especially antenatal and under 5’s care within the area.
Here are some pictures of the lovely people we met while we were out there:
Monica Kirk Foundation 