We are currently recruiting new volunteer Trustees. Please see the details below.
We are currently recruiting for one paid role, application deadline 5pm on Wednesday 30th July 2025. Please see the details below.
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Flourish Project Coordinator
- 3.5 days (24.5 hours) per week
- Salary £20,063.80 (£28,624 FTE)
We are looking for a community arts practitioner to join our small and dedicated team, to continue delivering Flourish, a three-year creative project (now six months in) offering support to male unaccompanied refugees and asylum seekers, which aims to improve access to support services, reduce isolation and increase wellbeing.
This is a partnership project, funded by the National Lottery, working with Communityworks in Undercliffe, Bradford Refugee Forum and Mears Housing Management Ltd. The role is based at Hive, with delivery taking place in Bradford hotels where refugees are housed and at Communityworks.
The project will provide a safe environment to build relationships through creative activities, making space to discuss issues and receive relevant support from additional partners working on the project. It will help Hive to build stronger partnerships locally, regionally and internationally, and to share best practice.
Flourish will help Hive to continue to develop its long-term plan to ensure that the diverse communities represented in Bradford are receiving appropriate and long-term support, and are represented within our organisation and the wider community. It also aims to ensure that the wider community will have a greater understanding and empathy for the issues faced by refugees and asylum seekers moving into Bradford.
This much-needed project offers a very rewarding opportunity to make a significant and lasting difference to refugees and asylum seekers in Bradford over a sustained period.
Key responsibilities
- To coordinate and deliver a creative programme of activities for male unaccompanied refugees and asylum seekers based in Bradford Hotels and within local communities.
- To liaise with project statutory and community partners to deliver the project including organising regular partner meetings to monitor project progression.
- To liaise with additional statutory and community partners to offer relevant support to refugees and asylum seekers to improve quality of life.
- To work with Hive’s Manager to recruit participant volunteers to the project.
- To organise a symposium and exhibition at the end of the project.
- To monitor the project against agreed outcomes.
Please note that the role description has changed slightly from previous versions of the role.
Hive is a Living Wage employer.
Full details and application
The closing date for applications is
We prefer applications to be completed digitally using the application form above, but if you are unable to do this please print and complete the following form.
Please return your completed application form to joy.hart@hivebradford.org.uk, or to the Hive office.
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Joy on joy.hart@hivebradford.org.uk or 01274 598928, or pop into the Hive office.
Trustee
Hive is a community arts charity in Shipley, Bradford. We deliver arts and crafts courses, workshops and projects from our centre in Shipley and across Bradford District. We believe that creativity contributes to good health and wellbeing and helps to bring communities together.
Trustees take on the ultimate legal and financial responsibility for all the activities of the charity. They maintain an overview of policy and strategic direction, ensure that staff and volunteers are supported in their work, and make sure that the charity is equipped and resourced to pursue its outcomes.
What do Trustees do?
Trustees are responsible for ensuring that the charity carries out its activities for the public benefit, in line with its charitable objectives and powers.
The Trustees take collective responsibility and have a legal duty to:
- comply with the charity’s governing document and the law
- act in the charity’s best interests
- manage the charity’s resources responsibly
- act with reasonable care and skill
- ensure the charity is accountable.
The Trustees meet monthly for a couple of hours, with some preparation and follow-up between meetings. Additional ad hoc meetings may also be held, as necessary, to discuss specific issues. Meetings are usually held in person, but may also be held online.
Who can be a Trustee?
You must be at least 16 years old to be a Trustee of Hive.
There are certain criteria that disqualify you from being a Trustee, mostly around bankruptcy, tax fraud, previous removal as a Trustee or Director, or convictions for certain offences. Further details can be found in the role description.
Full details and application
We prefer applications to be completed digitally using the application form above, but if you are unable to do this please print and complete the following form.
Please return your completed application form to trustees@hivebradford.org.uk, or to the Hive office.
The following documents are made available for reference: you do not need to include them with your application, but will be asked to complete the declarations should you be appointed.
For an informal chat about the role, please contact trustees@hivebradford.org.uk, or pop into the Hive office.