Management of the charity

The duties of the Chief Executive include:

• ensuring the executive committee receives the information needed to carry out its duties
• seeing that policy decisions are carried out
• contributing to the development of the organisation
• management of staff

We are delighted that Jane Palmer was a Women Leaders Milton Keynes finalist in the categories of Community Impact Charity and Public Service.  The winners were announced on Friday 12th October 2018.

In charity law, members of the Executive Committee are known as "trustees". 

The aim and responsibility of every trustee is to ensure that Age UK Milton Keynes operates in a manner which enables it to fulfil the objectives given in the constitution in as effective a manner as possible.  The committee has overall legal responsibility for the work and finances of the organisation, employs the staff and manages volunteers.  Our trustees are unpaid volunteers.

At the Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 27th September 2018 the following people were appointed as members of the Board of Trustees:

Honorary Trustee Treasurer  - volunteer role

We need a senior financial person to provide strategic advice, assistance and information to the Board of Trustees on their financial stewardship responsibilities and to act as the leading interface between the Board of Trustees and the senior management team on financial matters.  This unpaid role is primarily one of monitoring and overseeing, with the operational activity being undertaken by the in house financial team.

Role description (73 KB)

For more information or for an informal chat about this role please call Gaye Baker on 01908 550700.

We have several vacancies on our board of trustees.  If you are interested in becoming a trustee we would love to hear from you.  Please get in touch on 01908 550700.