Leading climate solutions charity, Ashden, is looking for a new trustee with finance experience to join our board.

Voluntary role • Hybrid • Expenses covered 

You can find the JD and Person Specification here.

Ashden’s vision is of a world where everyone enjoys access to clean energy. Where people and nature thrive. A world accelerating towards a fairer, greener future. 

Ashden’s mission is to accelerate the work of climate innovators – from SMEs to community organisations - creating a fairer, greener zero carbon world; and to secure the policy, finance and market conditions needed for these innovators and others like them to achieve transformative scale. 

We are inviting candidates who share that vision and believe in our mission to put themselves forward to join our Board of Trustees. This is a fabulous opportunity to join Ashden’s high performing and vibrant board as we seek to grow our impact at a critical time in the climate emergency. 

We seek candidates who could join our Finance and Operations Committee with suitable backgrounds in finance and early stage businesses/investment, as laid out in the person specification. This is an unremunerated role, and the term of trusteeship is three years, renewable to a maximum of three terms. 

Application Process 

We use BeApplied, a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. You will be asked three sample questions which will be scored anonymously by the hiring team. Once all answers are scored, we will look at candidate CVs and make a shortlist for interview.   

Interviews will take place in-person during w/b 16 March 2026 at our office in Victoria. We will reimburse off-peak travel expenses.    

Please let us know if you have accessibility needs and/or require reasonable adjustments people@sfct.org.uk.