COMMITMENT

The Panel currently meet four times a year (January, April, July, and October), scheduled to tie in with the meetings of the Board of Trustees. Members are expected to be available for all four Panel meetings. Meetings are held either virtually via Microsoft Teams, at the Foundation’s offices at Wembley Stadium, or at a previously funded site. They usually run for half a day (excluding any travel time).

Other contact – usually by email or telephone – may be necessary outside of the scheduled Panel meetings. Occasionally an additional Panel meeting may be scheduled for operational reasons, such as volume of applications or bespoke programmes.

In preparation for Panel meetings, applications, assessment reports and supporting paperwork are issued electronically to all Members three weeks before each meeting. Members are required to commit the necessary time to study the papers, raise relevant queries and comments in reviewing the papers, prepare for meetings and follow up on any specific tasks.

It is anticipated that Panel Members will dedicate around 12 days per year to the role, which will mainly be focused around preparing for and attending Panel meetings.

Panel Members must understand and accept the duties and responsibilities of the role. There must be a willingness from all Panel Members to give at least the minimum time commitment required for the role, both during and between meetings.

While this is not a Trustee position, the Foundation adopts the Charity Commission’s eligibility criteria for Panel membership: a. You must be at least 16 years old. b. You must not be disqualified under the Charities Act, i.e., you must not:

➢ Be disqualified as a company director.

➢ Have an unspent conviction for an offence involving dishonesty or deception (such as fraud).

➢ Be an undischarged bankrupt (or subject to sequestration in Scotland), or have a current composition or arrangement including an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) with your creditors, and/or

➢ Have been removed as a Trustee of any charity by the Charity Commission (or the court) because of misconduct or mismanagement.

Required Experience

Our aim is to ensure the Panel brings together a diverse, informed body of individuals who can use their specific backgrounds, skills, experiences, and perspectives to contribute to a healthy debate that leads to effective decision-making.

The knowledge, skills and experience in the list below are relevant to the Foundation’s main areas of activity. They are represented across the charity’s Executive and staff, who apply them at an operational level. It is desirable for Panel Members to have knowledge and understanding of at least some of these areas, and that the Panel, as a whole, should possess all of them:

○ Strategic planning, strategic frameworks, and systems

○ Operational management and planning

○ Community development

○ Networks/alliances/partnerships

○ Sport and leisure sector

○ Grant Giving

○ Project Management

○ Charity/not-for-profit experience

○ Delivery of capital projects

○ Financial management

○ Governance and regulation

○ Local government and public sector

○ Critiquing financial data for project bids

○ Equal, diversity and inclusion (EDI)

○ Funders and fundraising

○ Social/political environment

○ Risk management

○ Commercial experience

○ Monitoring and evaluation/insight

○ Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)

○ Property asset management

○ Education sector

○ Legal (company, property, charity, or H&S)

Due to the current economic climate, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from candidates with excellent knowledge of delivery of capital projects, with an in-depth understanding of how best value can be achieved.