Refugee Action has spent over 40 years supporting refugees and people seeking asylum to live with dignity and build safe, fulfilling lives in the UK. They stand up for rights, challenge injustice, and work alongside communities to create lasting change.

Refugee Action’s current strategy is its most ambitious yet. They are delivering innovative services that refuse to compromise on best practice, strengthening and supporting hundreds of community-based organisations, and advocating for systemic change – intentionally led by the voices of people with lived experience.

They are proud to have a majority of trustees with lived experience of forced displacement, and to be on a continuing journey to embed anti-racism into all they do. The Board is united in its mission, committed to inclusive governance, and determined to meet the challenges of a complex political and funding environment.

We are seeking a new Chair (or Co-Chairs) who can lead Refugee Action’s Board into its next chapter – someone with governance experience, sound judgement and a deep understanding of, and commitment to, the rights of refugees and people seeking asylum through their own lived experience of forced displacement. You will work closely with the Chief Executive to steer the organisation through both opportunity and challenge, helping ensure it remains bold, independent and effective in all it does.

You will be the right candidate if you share Refugee Action’s values, can bring your understanding of your own lived experience of forced displacement, and apply this to help shape the future of Refugee Action.

Please visit www.join-refugeeaction.co.uk to find out more and to apply. If you need candidate materials in an alternative format or have questions not covered on the microsite, please contact Cadence Partners at refugeeaction@cadencepartners.co.uk.

Closing date: midnight, Sunday 28 September 2025.