NEWS & BLOG

We’re proud to run a busy community centre for refugees, migrants and people seeking asylum, with a fantastic, supportive team full of energy and expertise. We’d love you to apply or help spread the word.

At West London Welcome we are striving to ensure our staff, volunteers and Board of Trustees are reflective of the communities we work with.

Our staff team includes five people with lived experience of refuge or migration, all of whom work in a wide variety of ways on a weekly basis with the refugees, migrants and asylum-seeking people who come to our centre. Amongst our 100+ volunteers, many are our beneficiaries whom we also support, who work collaboratively with us to run our centre. A fifth of our volunteers have lived experience of seeking refuge or of migration. Our Board of Trustees includes one person who we supported through the asylum system, and four of our nine Trustees have lived experience of seeking refuge or of migration.

We are now looking to recruit a new Trustee with lived experience of seeking refuge or migration, with some or all of the following skills and/or experience:

– Lived experience of the challenges of seeking refuge or migrating to the UK from another country. We welcome applicants who have either moved to the UK recently, or a long time ago.
– Refugee/migrant sector experience – experience of volunteering or working within the refugee and migrant NGO sector in the UK or another country. This could include either volunteering or working directly for an NGO, or in another related capacity such as with a campaign.
– Somebody who is passionate about the work of West London Welcome and supporting people in our community.

It is not necessary for applicants to have previous experience of being a Trustee.

Trustee roles are unpaid voluntary positions, but we offer travel and other relevant expenses.

Full details of the role and the person specification can be found in this document.

We are part of the Experts by Experience Employment Initiative (www.ebeemployment.org.uk). The network supports inclusive recruitment of people with lived experience of the UK asylum or immigration system. If this is your experience, you can find useful resources here.

Interested applicants should review the duties and person specification detailed here, and email their CV and a covering letter with the subject line Trustee Applicants to Joanne MacInnes, Director, at joanne@westlondonwelcome.com, or apply via our advert on CharityJob here, by 11.30pm on Monday 9 February 2026.

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Leyla Williams is Deputy Director at West London Welcome.