Help shape the future of melanoma prevention – become our next Chair

As Trustees’ Week 2026 celebrates the people who help charities make a difference, the Melanoma Fund is looking for an ambitious new Chair of trustees to help shape its future.

Every charity needs people who believe in its purpose, challenge its thinking and help turn ambition into impact. At the Melanoma Fund, our trustees have played an important role in developing our work to prevent melanoma and other skin cancers. Now, as we prepare for our next chapter, we’re looking for a new Chair who can help us build on that success.

Melanoma Fund – become our next Chair. Trustees’ Week 2026. Help shape the future of melanoma prevention. Applications close 9 December 2026.

A charity with ambition and opportunity

Through our Sunguarding® programme, we’re working to change the attitudes and behaviours that put people at risk from UV exposure and heat, making protection a normal part of everyday practice. We’ve established relationships across sport, education and outdoor industries, developed professionally recognised training and created educational resources, including our PSHE Association Quality Marked Sunguarding® Schools lesson. Our Slip! Slap! Swing! campaign has also built valuable engagement across golf, including with the PGA and Foremost Golf.

We’ve achieved a great deal with limited resources. Our next challenge is to turn this momentum into sustainable growth, stronger partnerships and wider impact.

Could you help us take the next step?

We’re seeking a commercially astute, strategically minded Chair who can bring fresh perspectives, strong leadership and a proven ability to develop partnerships. Experience in sport, sponsorship, commercial partnerships or the outdoor sector would be particularly valuable, alongside the ambition to help a small charity realise its potential.

Working with our Chief Executive and fellow trustees, you’ll help guide our strategy, strengthen financial sustainability and open doors to opportunities that can extend our reach. You don’t need to have been a charity Chair before. What matters is your leadership experience, commercial judgement, commitment to good governance and willingness to make a meaningful contribution.

An opportunity to make a difference

This is a voluntary role, open to candidates across the UK. The commitment includes approximately four Board meetings annually, primarily online, alongside preparation, regular contact with the Chief Executive and occasional strategic engagements. If you’re an experienced leader who wants to apply your skills and connections to a cause with genuine potential, we’d welcome a conversation.

Help us shape the future of skin cancer prevention

To apply, please send your CV and a short statement (maximum 500 words) explaining your vision for the Melanoma Fund and how you could contribute to its future.

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Deadline: 5pm, Wednesday 9 December 2026

The Melanoma Fund focuses on raising awareness, education and prevention of melanoma and other forms of skin cancer. Our aim is to improve understanding of sun protection and early detection, to all in sports and outdoor recreation, to reduce risks and save lives.
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Supporting those who work outdoors with primary-aged children, helping create sun protection habits from an early age.
Aimed at golfers, caddies and greenkeepers, keeping everyone in the sport ‘sun savvy’ as well as ‘skin savvy’.
Supported by leading industry organisations, this free resource provides guidelines, tips and advice to keep everyone in sport and outdoor recreation, sun safe.
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