Help us build a new European institution
Founding Trustees
Wanted
The European Outdoor Innovation Lab
What if the outdoors were treated not as a leisure extra, but as a serious tool for improving lives, tackling inequality, strengthening communities, and supporting health and wellbeing?
What if Europe had an organisation dedicated to testing, learning, and scaling better ways of connecting people with nature?
The European Outdoor Innovation Lab is being established as a new Brussels-based charity working across Ireland, the UK, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.
We will develop and support programmes that use nature and the outdoors as a vehicle for positive change — while also acting as an innovation and evidence hub, trialling new approaches, building partnerships, and contributing to research and policy.
In time, we aim to become a leading European voice in this space: practical, evidence-led, collaborative and ambitious.
We are now looking for Founding Trustees to help bring this vision to life.
We are seeking trustees who can help us build not just a charity, but a credible, high-impact institution.
Areas of expertise
We are particularly interested in people with experience in:
This role may suit people who want to:
Whether you're at the peak of your career or bringing hard-won expertise, this is an opportunity to shape something from the ground up.
Support a bold early-stage mission
Bring strategic expertise to a new European venture
Help shape a board, strategy and long-term direction
Contribute to meaningful change across sectors and borders
This is a voluntary trustee role with meetings held primarily online.
