Search for Chair and board members

Angus Council is starting recruitment for a Chair and board members to become the new Arbroath Town Board that will decide how to spend funding of up to £20 million, awarded to the town as part of the 2024-25 UK Government budget Levelling Up fund.

The key characteristic of the Long-Term Plan for Towns fund is that decisions around how to spend the fund will be decided by a new Town Board, made up of local community and business leaders, who will draw up their town’s Long-Term Plan for the next 10 years.

This means that the first task is to find a suitable Chair, who should be a champion for the town and provide leadership for the Town Board, ensuring that it is community-led and embedded within the local area. The board must have a clear focus on solving local issues and building a town fit for the future through ambitious, visionary projects.

Working with the new Chair, Angus Council will then help to establish the Town Board who know and understand Arbroath, and who bring together all its many different opportunities and issues.

It will then support the Board to develop an Investment Plan that will set out the long-term plan and ambitions and develops long-term plans.

The Chair:

Given the importance of their role, the Chair should be someone who already holds a prominent role within the town, such as:

• a member of a local charitable organisation
• a local business leader or employer
• a philanthropist
• the head of the Further Education College
• a director for the NHS Board or Trust
• a director of a football club

Elected representatives, such as MPs, MSPs, or local or community councillors, cannot chair the Town Board.

The Board:

Members of the board should already be members of local groups and organisations or run a business locally and could for example come from:

• community partners, such as community groups, faith groups and local charities
• local businesses and social enterprises
• key cultural, arts, heritage, and sporting organisations
• public sector agencies such as schools subject to local priorities
• Angus Council elected members, the local MSP, and the local community council

The local MP and a representative of Police Scotland are required to be on the Town Board.

To find out more or nominate a Chair or board members

• email arbroathltpt@angus.gov.uk,
• call ACCESSLine on 03452 777 778
• drop in to the ACCESS office in Arbroath Library