LionHeart is recruiting for new trustees!
LionHeart is the independent charity for chartered surveyors and their families. Established in 1899, our aim is quite simple: to be there for members whenever life throws them a curve ball, from the very beginning of their career as an APC candidate or apprentice, right through to retirement.
The confidential and expert support we provide aims to get people through any of life’s unexpected challenges. This ranges from grants, support for health and wellbeing, such as free professional counselling, work-related support, plus access to legal advice.
Our volunteer trustees play a hugely important role in enabling us to offer that.
Interested in helping us to make a difference? We are now looking for full and associate board members to join the team.
What we’re looking for:
Full board members
As we look to further diversify the skills and experiences among our trustees, we’d
particularly welcome applications from people with a small business background.
Our board currently includes surveyors who specialise in valuation, project management, planning and development, real estate, investment and land economy, and from a range of backgrounds. We are looking for surveyors (AssocRICS, MRICS or FRICS) from different areas or with different lived experience.
But trustees do not need to be surveyors at all - in fact, we’d love to hear from partners or family members of surveyors, or those from other professional backgrounds.
Our trustees are appointed on a three-year term, with the option to renew.
Associate board members
Board membership can be really enriching and support professional development – but it can be a catch 22 situation for people who want to join boards to get the experience they need to do so. We created our associate positions to give early career surveying professionals an opportunity to gain strategic, board level experience, and hope this will support wider participation.
Associate trustees join for a two-year term, during which they get first-hand experience of board meetings and chance to broaden their skills base.
We offer a great induction and training, and can match you up with another more
experienced trustee as a mentor if you’re new to this kind of role.
Want to find out more?
Take a look at our trustee recruitment pack to find out more about us and what we do - and what being a board member is all about.
Click here or on the image below to view
Online information sessions
We'll be holding the following informal online information sessions, where you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions of some of our existing board members.
Tuesday 12th May at 7pm
Friday 22nd May at 11am
Please register your interest to attend by emailing governance@lionheart.org.uk
stating which session, and we will send joining instructions.
Interviews
We expect to interview in person in London in the week commencing 29th June.
The successful candidates will be welcome to join their first board meeting on 23rd July.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the role or application process, please email our Governance Manager Kate Ellis (governance@lionheart.org.uk)
Interested? Here's how to apply...
Applications close 11pm Sunday 7th June 2026.
