Ransack Dance Company (Ransack) is seeking new Directors to join our Board. It is looking for individuals with a passion for the arts in Wales, particularly in Rhondda Cynon Taf and other rural communities, who have the time and commitment to contribute to the future strategic development and sustainability of Ransack.

This is an opportunity to work with a dynamic up and coming dance company, delivering a range of programmes between community and production dance practices, and help raise our profile and reach.

Ransack will be recruiting up to 2 to 4 new board members. We are seeking individuals with a range of knowledge and skills including:

Dance/the arts
Welsh language and culture
Promoting equality and diversity
Venue programming and leadership
PR and marketing
Finance and fundraising

Ransack Dance Company is currently recruiting Directors

Full Recruitment Information:

Company Background

Ransack Dance Company is a professional contemporary dance theatre production company

based in Pontypridd, South Wales, rooted in community engagement and involvement. We are associated organisation with Artis Community – delivering our community dance and arts programmes in RCT, in partnership with the organisation. We’re also ‘resident dance company’ at the new YMa arts centre in Pontypridd.

Our performance and community work alike includes live dance, music, film and spoken word. We collaborate with a range of professional artists and community members in our creative process. Our Artistic Director, Sarah Rogers, sowed the seeds for the organisation in 2013, originally as an individual applying for funding from the Arts Council of Wales to work with a collective of artists. Realising a crucial gap in provision in the training and infrastructure of emerging dance artists in Wales, she then set about creating a programme of projects which could help build a network of new dance artists alongside building her own creative choreography work and gathering a strong team of freelance artists to become a new dance company in Wales: Ransack Dance Company. She has since been the driving force behind the company’s strategic development, progressing the group to become a constituted community group organisation in 2016, before becoming a Company Limited by Guarantee in 2019 and sourcing a skilled and committed board of Directors and team of freelance artists.

We are now at an important stage of development in which we have grown an exciting

programme of work, between research and development, touring professional productions, community and outreach activity and professional development training; benefiting, involving and reaching a range of people across Wales. We have developed a three-year cycle of projects across our programme which enables us to create powerful production work which is intrinsically linked to our community members; integrating their personal stories and opinions, whilst also engaging them as audience and participants. However, for our organisation to have the sufficient capacity and resources to develop and grow further, it is vital that we grow our board of trustees and our core team of management staff.

Mission Statement

To inspire and empower socially and economically disadvantaged communities in Wales to

engage in the creation of vibrant and shared professional dance theatre experiences as

audiences and participants; developing new dance audiences through a feeling of ownership

and belonging.

Vision

Our long-term vision is that Ransack Dance Company will be a leader in the production of physical and inspirational professional dance production and participatory activity in Wales. We aim to be an established touring Welsh dance company that proactively engages new dance audiences particularly in rural settings throughout Wales, whilst also having an increasing UK wide presence to help put Wales ‘on the map’ for dance.

Click on the links to see short clips and documentaries of some our projects and productions:

Structure and Governance

Ransack Dance Company is currently managed by a Board of 4 Directors working in partnership with our Artistic Director. Our Directors and Artistic Director meet no less than three times a year on a voluntary basis to discuss, develop and review projects, with an Annual General Meeting (AGM) being held every 12 months to review the organisation’s objectives, and annual accounts before these are filed to regulatory and funding bodies.

Three Directors must be present for any meeting or decision-making process and three members must agree for any action to progress.

We will review our business plan biannually in board meetings and at our AGM, and update/make edits to match the activity of the company and the changing arts environment – ensuring our vision and aims as a company are up to date. We will produce a new 5 year business plan with a hard copy-updated yearly e.g. 2020-2025, 2021 – 2026, 2022 – 2027.

Click here to see our current team of board members

Recruitment of new Directors

This is an opportunity to work with a dynamic up and coming dance company, delivering a range of programmes between community and production dance practices, and help raise our profile and reach.

Ransack will be recruiting up to 2 to 4 new Directors. We are seeking individuals with a range of knowledge and skills including:

Dance/the arts
Welsh language and culture
Promoting equality and diversity
Venue programming and leadership
PR and marketing
Finance and fundraising

Director role description

The duties of a board member are:

To ensure Ransack complies with its governing document and any other relevant legislation or regulations.
To ensure that Ransack pursues its objectives as defined in its governing document.
To ensure that Ransack applies its resources exclusively in pursuance of its objectives.
To contribute actively to the board’s role in giving firm strategic direction to the company - setting policies, defining goals, setting targets and evaluating performance against agreed targets.
To ensure the financial sustainability of Ransack
To ensure the proper investment of the company’s funds.

In addition, to the above statutory duties, each trustee should use any specific skills, knowledge or experience they have to help the board reach sound decisions. This may involve scrutinising board papers, leading discussions, focussing on key issues, providing advice and guidance on new initiatives, coaching staff or other matters in which the trustee has special expertise.

Director person specification

A commitment to Ransack and our work – particularly our company ethos which gives equality between community and production dance practices.
A willingness to devote the necessary time and effort
Strategic vision
An ability to think creatively
A willingness to speak their mind and voice opinions

An understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship.
An ability to work effectively as a member of a team.
accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
It is desirable that trustees have experience and knowledge regarding equalities and diversity in the arts.
It is desirable that trustees speak Welsh (or are Welsh learners)
It is desirable that trustees live, work in or have a connection with RCT and or surrounding rural areas of the South Wales Valleys.
It is desirable that trustees have a business and/or finance background and can bring their professional and lived expertise to support the growth of Ransack Dance Company.

How to apply

To apply please send your CV and short covering letter outlining why you would like to become a Trustee and the skills you can bring to the role, to info@ransackdance.co.uk

We welcome applicants to send a film of their C.V and covering letter instead of writing if they prefer and welcome applications in English, welsh or BSL.

Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (please complete this form upon application)

We encourage applications from people who are currently underrepresented in the arts sector, including those from the global majority, people who are neurodivergent, D/deaf and disabled people and people from the LGBTQ+ community.

If you would like to talk about this opportunity in more detail please contact Sarah Rogers (Artistic Director) at info@ransackdance.co.uk / 07837759193

Closing date for applications Friday 9th January 2026