Board Members x3

Role description

Board Members’ primary role is to work with the Executive Team to shape strategy and investment decisions and ensure that the organisation is delivering against its agreed objectives. The Board is also responsible for approving priorities for Sport England, agree annual budgets, an appropriate risk appetite and ensure that the Executive Team maintains an effective system of internal control. Board members will also bring their own skills, knowledge and experience to support the Executive Team in delivering the overall strategy.

Organisation description

Sport England is a government-funded Non-Departmental Public Body and National Lottery distributor. It is responsible for supporting, growing and advocating for grassroots sport and physical activity in England in line with its objectives as set out in its Royal Charter, its strategy ‘Uniting the Movement’ and government's sport and physical activity strategy ‘Sporting Future: A New Strategy for an Active Nation’.

The Chair leads a main Board which consists of a Deputy Chair and up to 12 other members appointed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. There is also an Investment Committee, focused on ensuring investment decisions and related matters are aligned to the strategy, an Audit, Risk and Governance Committee and a Chairs’ and Remuneration Committee. There are also two subsidiary companies, the Sports Council Trust Company, which holds Sport England’s property assets and the English Sports Development Trust Ltd, which invests money in campaigns such as ‘This Girl Can’.