Board Opportunity: Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust Seeks Two Shadow Trustees

Job Title: Shadow Trustee, Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust (RPMT), Brighton & Hove
Responsible to: Michael Bedingfield, Chair of Trustees
Closing date: midnight on Friday 28 November 2025
Interviews: Friday 9 January 2026 at the Royal Pavilion

Successful applicants will be invited to attend the board meeting on Wednesday 4 February 2026 as observers.

We have really valued having our shadow trustees. They bring a different perspective to our conversations and help us think about all of our actual and potential audiences.

— Hedley Swain, CEO

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two new shadow trustees to join our Board from February 2026 for two years.

It is an important period for the organisation with the restoration of the Royal Pavilion Garden in full swing.

Brighton & Hove Museums (B&HM) are run by an independent charitable trust, the Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust (RPMT), which is governed by a board of trustees. The Trust is looking to appoint two new shadow trustees to help us run this group of museums that are so essential to the city’s wellbeing.

We want to supplement and widen the skills, expertise and experience already on the board with two people who will bring different perspectives and who are at an early stage of their career.

Five years after becoming an independent charity this is an exciting and challenging period in the Trust’s life. We need to maximise the number and range of people we are engaging with and increase sources of income. It is particularly important that our governance structure represents the full diversity of our potential audiences and draws on as wide a range of expertise and viewpoints as possible.

If you would like to speak to someone before making an application, please contact Melanie Boardman melanie.boardman@rpmt.org.uk