Time Commitment: 2-3 days per month

Golding Homes is a community-based housing association, centred around Maidstone, with over 8,500 homes and 20,000 customers. We are proud of our strong local identity, our customer engagement and commitment to creating homes and communities people can be proud of.

Our Corporate Plan 2023–2026 set out a clear and ambitious direction:

We have already achieved significant progress. We’ve invested significantly in improving our services and our homes, addressing historic under investment, whilst maintaining a modest development programme, consciously recognising the short term impact this has on our financial metrics. We remain committed to delivering excellent customer service, safe homes and sustainable communities and being an efficient high performing organisation. Our values of we care, we welcome new ideas and we take pride, underpin everything we do. This has translated into improvements across all key service and satisfaction measures.

As our current corporate plan comes to an end, our focus for the coming four years will be on continued customer service excellence alongside driving value for money to deliver our financial targets. We are looking for a Chair who can help us build on these successes and lead the Board through the next stage of our journey.

The Opportunity

As Chair, you will continue to develop the culture, ensure strong governance, and work closely with our talented Executive Team to deliver for our customers. You will lead a committed and skilled Board that is passionate about making a real difference for customers and communities. This is a time of evolution not revolution for Golding as the organisation continues on its journey of improvement and modernisation.

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking an experienced non-executive director with prior Board chairing or committee chairing experience and the ability to:

• Lead with confidence and clarity, inspiring collaboration, partnership working and getting the best out of people.


• Balance strategic vision with appropriate attention to detail, knowing when to step in and when to empower others.


• Show genuine commitment to and track record of customer engagement


• Demonstrate strong financial acumen,


• Preferably bring experience in social housing, but transferable expertise from other complex, highly regulated sectors will be considered for an exceptional candidate.


• Encourage innovation and transformation, to help us adapt to the changing external environment.


• Embrace the future with a forward-looking mindset, keeping customer focus at the heart of what we do.

If you share our passion for making a difference through housing and have the skills and experience to lead us through the next stage of our journey, we would love to hear from you.

For an informal conversation, please contact our recruitment partners at GatenbySanderson:

Rosie Gunn: 07964 841 007

Ellie Masters-Gregory: 07867 455 223

Rachel Salvia: 07393 013 067

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