Trustee Vacancies – Torbay

The Coalition of Disabled People South Devon, now known as Disability Support Torbay, supports people with physical, sensory and learning disabilities, mental health and long-term health conditions, and carers.  The Charity’s registered office and service hub is next to the Town Hall car park in Torquay but supports people in any part of South Devon. 

We are a small but important charity whose services are delivered by one full-time and three part-time staff and a highly valued group of volunteers.  Our aim is to use our knowledge and experience to make a difference to the people we support, working together to encourage independence, empowerment and respect.

Our main service is supporting people with disabilities and/or long-term health/mental health conditions to complete benefit applications and gather their evidence. We also support appeals with an almost 100% success rate. Client feedback is very positive with 91% feeling less worried after our intervention and an average score of 4.24 from a possible 5 star rating. We also offer help with housing issues, help with other applications eg Blue Badge, a free counselling service and information on local and national provision for individuals.

Currently our core funding comes from the National Lotteries Reaching Communities Fund and we have funding until the end of June 2026. We are working hard to ensure future sustainability beyond this. We have a small Board of long serving, loyal Trustees. We now need to recruit additional enthusiasm, knowledge and expertise to drive the organisation towards sustainability from 1 July 2026.  Ideally, we are seeking people who live in the Torbay area and can offer experience and expertise in the areas of financial management, marketing and communications and strategic leadership. 

Do take a moment to download our information pack and contact Jackie Dawkins of Shine Charity Recruitment (jackie@shinecharityrecruitment.co.uk) who is supporting our search for new Trustees.