CLA champions a right to arts and culture for every child. It uses evidence to demonstrate the ways in which an arts-rich education provides skills for life and skills for work, enabling all children to fulfil their potential. Working with educators, arts education practitioners and policy makers, it aims to create positive and sustained shifts in arts and cultural learning access, opportunities and experiences, and in national policy, infrastructure and funding. Working on behalf of its members, CLA is actively inclusive and applies a social justice lens to all its activity.
We are looking for a minimum of two new Trustees to join us now that we are established as a new charity after more than a decade of working as an informal alliance. We have a real sense of energy and ambition, a clear strategy, and much that we want to achieve. We are specifically seeking applicants with experience of working in the education sector – and are interested in hearing from people with experience of Primary, Secondary, Further Education or SEND. We would welcome applications from younger applicants and those with no previous board experience – but equally don’t let this deter you if neither of these applies to you. We are committed to inclusion and diversity, and particularly welcome applications from individuals with an ethnically diverse background.
If you are passionate about the value of arts education and think that you have the skills, qualities or experience to help us deliver our mission on behalf of all children and young people, then we’d love to hear from you. Send us an email telling us why you’re interested and summarising your relevant skills and commitment in no more than 500 words. To apply, email the Co-Chairs before 12 June 2025: info@culturallearningalliance.org.uk.
View CLA Trustee Application Pack
