You will need:

• Your personal and contact details

• Your address(es) for the last five years (with moving dates if more than one address - month and year)

• A few sentences about why you want to volunteer with us

• Details of any parenting experience

• Contact details for two referees we can contact for references

You will need:

• Your personal and contact details, including addresses for the past five years (with moving dates if more than one address - month and year)

• Short statements outlining what attracts you to being a Trustee, and why Home-Start Bradford District

• Contact details for two referees we can contact for references

You will need:

• Your personal and contact details, including addresses for the past five years (with dates)

• Details of your educational qualifications

• Details of any job-related qualifications or specialised training

• Your work and volunteer history, including employer details, dates, and brief descriptions of your duties

• Details of any gaps in employment history

• A statement outlining your relevant skills, knowledge and experience: this is the primary information we will use to evaluate your application against the job description and person specification

• Contact details for two referees we can contact for references

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The role

Role applied for *

Please read the Job Description and Person Specification before completing this form as we can only determine your suitability for the position from the information you give in this application.

Previous addresses *
Please list all other addresses covering the last five years, with start and end month/years.

Your date of birth *

Your nationality *

Number of years resident in the UK *

Please detail any health, mobility or accessibility conditions which might affect your volunteering, as well as support or assistance you might need to volunteer. *

Do you have access to the use of a vehicle? *—Please choose an option—YesNo

Do you hold a current UK driving licence? *—Please choose an option—YesNo

Are you related to any person who works in a paid or unpaid capacity for Home-Start Bradford District or any other branch of Home-Start UK? *—Please choose an option—YesNo

Are you eligible to work in the UK under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006? *—Please choose an option—YesNo

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Checks

Answering yes to any of the following questions may not prevent you from taking the role, but failing to declare things which come to light later during checks may do so. You will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

1. Have you had any personal contact with Social Care / Social Work Department or NSPCC in connection with children in your care, or have any of your children been subject to a child protection order, child in need plan or common assessment framework? *—Please choose an option—YesNo

2. Have you ever been dismissed or subject to any disciplinary actions from any paid or voluntary work? *—Please choose an option—YesNo

3. Are you, or have you ever been the subject of fitness to practice proceeding by a UK or overseas licensing regulatory body? *—Please choose an option—YesNo

4a. (Standard or Enhanced Disclosures) Do you have any convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings that are not "protected" as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended)? *—Please choose an option—YesNoNot applicable

or

4b. (Basic Disclosures) Do you have any unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings? *—Please choose an option—YesNoNot applicable

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Education

Please list your school, college and university-level educational qualifications. *

School-levelCollege-levelUndergraduate-levelPostgraduate-levelNone

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Job-related qualifications or specialised training

Course title, and qualification / grade achieved (if applicable)

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Work history: current and previous employed, voluntary or unpaid work (most recent first)

This should be your current paid job (or most recent if you are not currently in paid employment):

Job title or role *

Employer or organisation *

Date from *

Date to *

Brief description of duties and reason for leaving *

Notice period required *

Salary *

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Work history: gaps in employment history (most recent first)

Reason for gap (eg. career break, children, travelling, training)

Date from

Date to

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Other work

If offered this position, do you intend to continue working in any other capacity? *—Please choose an option—YesNo

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Relevant skills, knowledge and experience

These areas will be explored further at interview.

Please give information about your own parenting experience, including ages of children *

Why would you like to become a Home-Start Bradford District volunteer? *

What are your hobbies and leisure interests?

Is there any other information you would like to add?

The following areas of knowledge, skills and expertise may be particularly valuable to a Trustee Board. Please select any areas that you feel you could bring to this role. It doesn't matter if you don't select any.Finance and BookkeepingFundraisingPersonnel and HRPR and MarketingHealth and SafetyManagementSafeguarding

Have you been a Trustee for another organisation? *—Please choose an option—Yes, currentlyYes, in the past but not nowNo

What attracts you to being a Trustee? Why are you interested in becoming a Trustee for Home-Start Bradford District? *

What specific areas of Home-Start Bradford District's work, or the work of the Trustees, interest you? *

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Relevant skills, knowledge and experience

Please use this section to show how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification and what evidence you have to show that you meet each item. Please structure your statement adopting the key headings of the Person Specification. *

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References

Your referees must not be related to you, or a member of your household, and must have known you for at least two years.

Please ask permission prior to submitting referees details and double-check email addresses.

Referee 1

Time known this person (years - must be more than two) *

In what capacity? *

Name *

Address (including postcode) *

Email address *

Phone *

Referee 2

Time known this person (years - must be more than two) *

In what capacity? *

Name *

Address (including postcode) *

Email address *

Phone *

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Membership

Membership of the charity is free, and entirely optional.

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I would like to become a member of the charity

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Membership

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As a Trustee, you automatically become a member of the charity.

I know of no reason why I would be unsuitable to volunteer with Home-Start Bradford District, and will report any changes in circumstances which might affect my role.

I am able to commit to a minimum of 3-4 hours per week, as well as the course of preparation and supervision meetings every 6-8 weeks.

I know of no reason why I would be unsuitable to be a Trustee with Home-Start Bradford District, and will report any changes in circumstances which might affect my role.

I am able to commit to a minimum of 2-3 hours of meetings every other month, plus additional time between meetings for reading, thinking and other responsibilities.

I understand that should I make a deliberate misrepresentation, any employment offered to me may be terminated.

I wish to become a member of Home-Start Bradford District, subject to the provisions of its Constitution. If the charity is wound up while I am a member, or for up to twelve months after I have ceased to be a member, I agree to pay to the charity an amount of up to £1. I confirm that when I cease volunteering with Home-Start Bradford District I wish to end my membership on the same date unless I inform you otherwise.