Who We Are
AIMS is a small charity that supports people to navigate the maternity services. We provide information and a helpline, and campaign for a system that works for all, by lobbying at a national level for the improvements needed. We are a volunteer-led organisation which emerged from the vision of Sally Willington over 60 years ago. Today AIMS is a registered charity. You can find out more about AIMS by visiting our website.
The Role
We’re seeking trustees who will help oversee the development of AIMS, share the commitment of AIMS to improve maternity services for all in the UK.and have a passion for helping us make change happen.
This is a voluntary role, but reasonable expenses will be reimbursed. You can find out more about the role of a trustee here. Training will be given and trustees are supported by AIMS’ volunteer management team. Online attendance is required at 10 trustee meetings per year, and an in person away day and AGM. Trustee duties normally take 5-10 hours a month.
The AIMS Constitution states that an AIMS trustee may not be “a qualified member of any medical profession including doctor, midwife, nurse or health visitor”.
Who We’re Looking For
You don’t need to already work in the ‘birth world’, but need to be able to demonstrate a commitment to the AIMS mission and ethos.
We are looking for trustees with experience in any of the transferable skills below:
Digital strategy and leadership
Service design
Public Relations
Fundraising experience
Auditing
Developing commercial/traded income streams
IT expertise and cybersecurity
We are also interested in hearing from people who identify with any of the following:
Like to focus on specific targets
Think about the impact on people, including staff and volunteers as stakeholders
Are good at methodically following a plan
We value diversity and recognise that good leadership benefits from the diversity of lived experience. We warmly encourage expressions of interest from global majority members, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and neurodiverse people. If any of the above sounds like you, or you would like to learn more about the trustee role, please get in touch with us at enquiries@aims.org.uk
Closing date: 17th February 2025
AIMS has an active Social Media Team, designing and scheduling posts to several platforms. We are looking for new team members who would like to join us and develop their skills in one or all of the following areas:
Designing images & reels using Canva
Managing a varied schedule of posts across several platforms
Working with other AIMS teams to provide Social Media posts to highlight their work
Managing and developing the work of the Social Media Team.
We provide support and training to use Google workspace tools and Canva.
If you are interested please email admin@aims.org.uk
Are you passionate about the work that AIMS does to support maternity service users and campaign for improvements but not sure how you could help? Do you like organising and working with people? Do you enjoy working behind the scenes to make things happen? Then volunteer to join the AIMS Management team.
The Management team is the central hub of the organisation. It has delegated authority from the Trustees for the day-to-day management of AIMS work and for supporting our other volunteer teams. Our role includes:
Managing administration and support for AIMS volunteers in collaboration with the volunteer Team Leads
Supporting Team Leads to ensure that their Teams have what they need to function effectively
Managing routine operational matters including meetings and workshops, the AIMS Shop and other support services, quality control of publications, the charity’s finances, and promotion of AIMS and its activities,.
Supporting the Board of Trustees
There is a lot to be done and we desperately need one or two additional volunteers to help us.
Time commitment: A 1½ hour meeting every other week plus at least 2 hours per week.
If you’d like to know more please contact enquiries@aims.org.uk
AIMS does not accept funding from being linked with any commercial enterprise so currently relies mainly on income from membership subscriptions and sales of our publications. To supplement this we are exploring grant applications and other sources of funding to enable us to extend the reach of our support and campaigning work.
Are you an experienced fundraiser who could help us develop our fundraising strategy, and identify and access sources of funding, including grant-funding, to support our charitable work? This may include funding for our core costs, for campaigning work, and for initiatives such as improving the accessibility of our information resources to diverse communities.
If you think you could help us, please contact management@aims.org.uk
We are always looking for writers with knowledge of maternity issues to write Birth Information pages, articles or reviews for our online Journal and AIMS books. AIMS wants to provide all maternity service users and those who support them with high quality, unbiased, evidence-based information. If you would like to be a part of this, we would love to hear from you.
AIMS is run by a small team of Volunteers, and we always gratefully welcome more.
More information about volunteering with AIMS can be found here and there will be an opportunity for you to help in some way regardless of your skills and experience, and the amount of time you have to volunteer.
Most of the work of AIMS is carried out by our Volunteers, but from time to time we employ contractors. This happens if we do not have a Volunteer available who has both the time and the specialist skills we need.
We employ a part-time office manager to help support the work of our Volunteers, and we use contractors for a variety of other work.
For long term paid roles, such as Journal Editors and Office Manager we advertise; and carry out an interview and selection process.
For short term contract opportunities we may reach out to those we know can provide a service.
If you are able to offer any of the services listed below, and would like to be considered for contract work with AIMS, please send your details to admin@aims.org.uk