Trustees: backed . it's turn

Position: Trustees: Someone backed you. Now it's your turn
Location: Chaucer

Help steer a charity that changes young lives
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- Trustee | Dallaglio Rugby Works
Voluntary (travel expenses reimbursed) | London / Remote | c25-30hours per annum | Three board meetings a year plus AGM
Dallaglio Rugby Works is seeking new Trustees to join its Board and help lead the charity through its next stage of growth.
Most people who have done well can name someone who believed in them before they had proved anything. Thousands of young people in the UK have no one like that. Our job is to change that, and the Board’s job is to make sure we do it well.
About Dallaglio Rugby Works
Dallaglio Rugby Works is an employment and social mobility charity. We work with young people who have been excluded from mainstream education, so that they are not excluded from society as well. Our work begins at around age 13, often just as things begin to go wrong, and continues until each young person is settled in sustained employment, education or training, sometimes into their mid-twenties.

We measure our success by how many of those young people go on to secure a positive future.
Our approach
Although rugby is at the heart of our approach, this is not a sports charity and Trustees do not need an interest in rugby. Our coaches use non-contact, rugby-based activities to build teamwork, discipline, resilience and self-belief. The sport is a means of engagement. The substance of our work is the long-term support that follows.
Our impact
In the 2023/24 academic year, 10,885 students were excluded from mainstream education in the UK. The odds are stacked against them. Only 4% of pupils in Alternative Provision pass their English and maths GCSEs, compared with 64% in mainstream schools, and only 62% go on to sustained education, employment or training, compared with 94% of their mainstream peers. We exist to close that gap.

• 13,054 young people supported to date.

• Almost 99% of participants moved into education, employment or training when they left our programme.

• 86% were still in sustained education, employment or training after the age of 18, compared with 62% of young people leaving Alternative Provision.

• 63% of the young people we work with are eligible for free school meals.

• Around £30 of social value is created for every £1 invested, according to a social return on investment analysis by a certified practitioner. That includes an estimated • £23 saved for the taxpayer in long-term public costs, and a total social impact of around £56,000 per young person.

• 15 members of our team have lived experience of the challenges our young people face.
Behind every number is a young person. Demi, who we met at a Pupil Referral Unit, earned a Level 2 Sports Leaders qualification and now works as a teaching assistant at that same unit. Dylan moved from a Young Offender Institution into a rugby coaching traineeship. As a Trustee, you’ll help make sure many more young people get the same chance.
Our Board and leadership
You will join a Board that brings together experience from education, safeguarding, business, finance, law, marketing, investment and social policy.
Founder:
Lawrence Dallaglio OBE, former England and Wasps captain and World Rugby Hall of Fame inductee.
Chief Executive:
Zenna Hopson, former Chair of Ofsted, who brings an extensive commercial background. Zenna served as a Trustee before being appointed CEO in 2021.
Trustees:

• John d'Abbro OBE (Acting Chair). Educationalist

• Andy Cook. Chief Executive of the Centre for Social Justice.

• Nick Theakstone. Former Chair of the UK Board of GroupM and member of its Global Executive Committee.

• Mai Fenton. Former Chief Marketing Officer at Superscript, and Non-Executive Director of Henderson International Income Trust plc and…