Trustee with Fundraising Experience

Festina Lente is at an exciting time of its development as it prepares to relocate its current services to a state-of-the-art center in Kilpeddar, Co Wicklow by the year 2025/6.  With a new site bought and full planning permission secured, it is expected that the building for the new development will commence in August 2024.  Festina Lente Enterprises is seeking to appoint a Director to its Board to develop and support a Fundraising Strategy for some of the programmes.   

The Board of Directors meet 11 times each year.  The time commitment is attendance at meetings in addition to approximately 6 hours each month.  We are seeking to appoint somebody who expertise in the area of fundraising strategy and who ideally will have a deep passion and understanding of the value of nature based therapeutic interventions to promote the physical, psychosocial and/or mental wellbeing for people affected by socio economic disadvantage and /or disabilities.