Fulham Palace seeks Chair

Fulham Palace Trust Chair

‘Fulham Palace is a truly remarkable place, ranking amongst England’s most important heritage sites. Fulham Palace Trust was established in April 2011 to manage, restore and promote Fulham Palace and gardens. Following two major restoration projects in 2005-06 and 2010-11 the Trust has just completed a further capital project to restore the Tudor section of the building and provide enhanced public access to the Tudor rooms. Leading on from this restoration project there will be further development and restoration projects to complete the renewal of this unique site and strengthen the Trust’s commercial income, including the restoration of our Victorian chapel, creation of new public gardens, refurbishment of office and residential accommodation and creation of a new event space.

We are currently looking for a non-executive chair to continue the excellent work of Mariana Spater, outgoing chair. It has been an extraordinary and challenging year due to the pandemic, but there is great potential for the Trust to continue its engaging and innovative work.

You should be passionate about heritage and the Trust’s work to involve people in
history and horticulture. You should have good business and financial acumen, be a strategic thinker, well networked in your area of expertise, a great communicator and able to develop strong working relationships with trustees, staff and external stakeholders. Given the continued economic turbulence you should be resilient and able to cope with further challenges.

Fulham Palace Trust welcomes a wide range of applicants and those that can actively support the Trust’s ambition to make Fulham palace a destination for a more diverse visitor cohort.

This is an exciting opportunity to put your considerable skills to use and to play an important role in the future of Fulham Palace. To find out more about the role please visit our website fulhampalace.org/get-involved/vacancies/ or email admin@fulhampalace.org for an information pack.

To apply, please send a current CV and covering letter no longer than two A4 pages stating why you are interested and how your experience matches the role profile/person specification by e-mail to Alice Wolvey, Business Support Officer, admin@fulhampalacetrust.org, or by post to:

Sian Harrington, Chief Executive, Fulham Palace Trust, Fulham Palace, Bishop s Avenue, Fulham, London, SW6 6EA.

The closing date is 9.00 on Tuesday 8 June.’