The Rt Rev Ruth Bushyager (Bishop of Horsham)
Chair of the Board
The three main areas of our work are:
Patronage: supporting the appointment process for clergy in more than 700 churches.
Leadership: resources, events and programmes to develop leaders at all levels in local churches.
Venture and Falcon holidays: for 8 -18’s to explore life with Jesus on our residentials.
The Trustees are profoundly grateful for all that God has been doing in and through CPAS and seek to appoint faithful and visionary new colleagues who will join us in leading the next generation of serving the mission of Christ in our nation.
CPAS has many doors open for its work through its direct connections to every diocese, over 700 parishes through its patronage work and many more parishes where CPAS is not patron. We aim to complement the strategic priorities of the Church of England and build on a huge legacy of goodwill and experience that exists among thousands of leaders trained by CPAS, and an outstanding volunteer pool that has engaged with tens of thousands of young people over recent years.
Nevertheless, we face challenges in knowing how best to equip todays and tomorrow’s leaders, how to continue to reach young people in a ‘post-Christian’ society, and how patronage might continue to be used for evangelism even as church structures develop and change. In addition, charities have become increasingly focused on behavioural based governance and risk -based management. CPAS aspires to follow the Charity Governance Code that mirrors these responsibilities of governance.
The skills we’ve identified as areas for strengthening the board are safeguarding, HR and legal, but all Trustees take collegiate responsibility for decisions that affect the running of CPAS.
We're particularly keen to recruit younger and more diverse trustees to the Board so that we get the benefit of their insights into our strategy and plans. Being a charity trustee also offers benefits in terms of your own professional development:
in setting strategy and leading culture within an organisation, working with Trustees from varied backgrounds,
in non-executive director level discussions and negotiations on key business decisions; and
an appreciation of the wide range of functions needed to run a dynamic organisation: finance, IT, HR, marketing, communications, risk management, safeguarding and governance.
As the Trustee role facilitates development in a range of skills, it is possible that if you are in employment, your employer may be willing to give extra leave for trustee meetings as they do for other public duties or in pursuit of their corporate social responsibility programme.
We will provide training for new trustees, and a buddy scheme to help you operate effectively as a trustee as quickly as possible. It is a volunteer role, but we reimburse the expenses you incur in getting to meetings, including childcare.
If God may be calling you to serve His church in this way, and you have the skillset and commitment we are looking for, then I would encourage you to have a confidential conversation with Adam at Charisma, who we have appointed to help us find the perfect person for the role,
Yours in Christ,
Thank you for your interest in finding out more about being a lead trustee for safeguarding at CPAS. Our Trustees have an important role in the life and witness of the UK church, and we need skilled and Christ-centred people to join us.
CPAS is a vital and vibrant Anglican evangelical mission agency – one of the ten Partners in World Mission agencies for the Church of England, with an evangelical foundation and an historic calling to serve the wider church in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Our founders’ aim was clear, to take the gospel ‘to every person’s door, with a single eye to the glory of God’ which has meant that our work has always been in partnership with local churches. Currently we focus on patronage, training and the residential holidays we run for young people. We value our rich heritage and partnerships across the evangelical constituency, and seek to be biblical, missional, prayerful and Christ -like in all we do. Looking towards 2030, our prayer and aspiration is to see:
The Rt Rev Ruth Bushyager (Bishop of Horsham)
Chair of the Board
The three main areas of our work are:
Patronage: supporting the appointment process for clergy in more than 700 churches.
Leadership: resources, events and programmes to develop leaders at all levels in local churches.
Venture and Falcon holidays: for 8 -18’s to explore life with Jesus on our residentials.
The Trustees are profoundly grateful for all that God has been doing in and through CPAS and seek to appoint faithful and visionary new colleagues who will join us in leading the next generation of serving the mission of Christ in our nation.
CPAS has many doors open for its work through its direct connections to every diocese, over 700 parishes through its patronage work and many more parishes where CPAS is not patron. We aim to complement the strategic priorities of the Church of England and build on a huge legacy of goodwill and experience that exists among thousands of leaders trained by CPAS, and an outstanding volunteer pool that has engaged with tens of thousands of young people over recent years.
Nevertheless, we face challenges in knowing how best to equip todays and tomorrow’s leaders, how to continue to reach young people in a ‘post-Christian’ society, and how patronage might continue to be used for evangelism even as church structures develop and change. In addition, charities have become increasingly focused on behavioural based governance and risk -based management. CPAS aspires to follow the Charity Governance Code that mirrors these responsibilities of governance.
The skills we’ve identified as areas for strengthening the board are safeguarding, HR and legal, but all Trustees take collegiate responsibility for decisions that affect the running of CPAS.
We're particularly keen to recruit younger and more diverse trustees to the Board so that we get the benefit of their insights into our strategy and plans. Being a charity trustee also offers benefits in terms of your own professional development:
in setting strategy and leading culture within an organisation, working with Trustees from varied backgrounds,
in non-executive director level discussions and negotiations on key business decisions; and
an appreciation of the wide range of functions needed to run a dynamic organisation: finance, IT, HR, marketing, communications, risk management, safeguarding and governance.
As the Trustee role facilitates development in a range of skills, it is possible that if you are in employment, your employer may be willing to give extra leave for trustee meetings as they do for other public duties or in pursuit of their corporate social responsibility programme.
We will provide training for new trustees, and a buddy scheme to help you operate effectively as a trustee as quickly as possible. It is a volunteer role, but we reimburse the expenses you incur in getting to meetings, including childcare.
If God may be calling you to serve His church in this way, and you have the skillset and commitment we are looking for, then I would encourage you to have a confidential conversation with Adam at Charisma, who we have appointed to help us find the perfect person for the role,
Yours in Christ,
Thank you for your interest in finding out more about being a lead trustee for safeguarding at CPAS. Our Trustees have an important role in the life and witness of the UK church, and we need skilled and Christ-centred people to join us.
CPAS is a vital and vibrant Anglican evangelical mission agency – one of the ten Partners in World Mission agencies for the Church of England, with an evangelical foundation and an historic calling to serve the wider church in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Our founders’ aim was clear, to take the gospel ‘to every person’s door, with a single eye to the glory of God’ which has meant that our work has always been in partnership with local churches. Currently we focus on patronage, training and the residential holidays we run for young people. We value our rich heritage and partnerships across the evangelical constituency, and seek to be biblical, missional, prayerful and Christ -like in all we do. Looking towards 2030, our prayer and aspiration is to see:
