RCVS Trust is seeking to recruit two Members of the RCVS to join the Board of Trustees

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Trust

"Helping animals and the people who care for them"

The RCVS Trust, a rapidly expanding educational and animal welfare charity, is seeking to recruit two Members of the RCVS to join the Board of Trustees.

 The Trust will celebrate its 50^th anniversary in 2008. An ambitious five-year plan of growth and development was approved in November 2003, built around the following three objectives:

• Achieve financial stability and growth, raising £1M annually by 2008
• Increase active use of the LIS from 3% to 20% by 2008
• Disburse £500K in postgraduate educational grants by 2008

 Significant progress has been made across all activities, including the development and implementation of a new grant-making strategy (annual disbursement c£850K per year) and the development of new income streams (library membership, committed giving, events)

• RCVS Trust educational grants programmeThe Trust has been a grant-maker since its earliest days and since 2005 has invested over £1,500,000 in practice and university-based grants across a wide range of species and disease areas.
  
• RCVS Trust libraryOur library is the largest specialist veterinary library in Europe. The services offered have developed significantly in recent years to include a growing range of electronic services such as an online catalogue, online customised searches and quarterly e-updates on new information for special interest groups.

Closing date: 12 October 2007. Please contact the Director Gerri McHugh on 020 7202 0714 or [email protected] if you would like to receive an information pack.

Term of Office: Three years