The Abbey Community Association is a charity operating out of a large community centre and hub in the heart of south Westminster, bringing together local people and organisations to address local community needs. We are currently recruiting for a part-time Employment Support Officer, as part of our Women Off to Work (WOW) programme funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.

This is a holistic training and “into-work” programme for women in south Westminster and neighbouring areas, particularly those of Muslim and Arabic-speaking backgrounds. It includes life and vocational skills training, wellbeing and general employability support through work experience placements, internships, job brokerage, and practical advice on employment and self-employment.

The successful candidate will provide tailored support to women to help them into work or self-employment, including developing plans, CV writing, mock interviews, and advice on becoming self-employed.

You’ll be joining an ambitious team passionate about helping young people, hungry for individual success but supporting each other as well. The Trusts and Foundations Fundraising Manager will be an experienced and successful specialist fundraiser, ready to step up and sustain our most important income stream. The following qualities sum up what we are looking for:

• A track record of securing six figure grants from a range of institutional funders, trusts, foundations and statutory sources

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, especially around composing compelling funding proposals

• Excellent project management skills with the experience to take major funding applications from the concept stage to a successful grant award

• The ability to work independently and to develop strong working relationships with London Youth delivery teams and programme Heads

• Stewardship skills – reporting, managing funder visits and facilitating follow up grants

This is a fantastic opportunity to join The Avenues Youth Project as our Fundraising Manager with a focus on Trusts and Foundations.

The Avenues is an exceptional community youth centre. Located in North Westminster it serves one of the most deprived inner-city neighbourhoods in the UK. Through a stimulating range of programmes our team of qualified youth workers provide support, opportunity and hope to local children and young people aged 8 to 18.

​The Avenues has established strong links across the youth sector in West London, and we are recognised by Westminster City Council as one of three key youth hubs in the borough. We constantly strive for the highest quality and hold London Youth’s Gold Award for Excellence.

The Avenues has been changing lives for over 40 years; this is an opportunity to join and support a superb team of practitioners and staff united in the belief that every child has a right to essential opportunities, no matter their background. 

The purpose of this role is:

• To forward plan funding streams to ensure a smooth and regular flow of income that meets The Avenues’ budget.
• To develop existing and new relationships with funders in order to maximise immediate and long-term income for the organisation and its various projects.
• To write compelling proposals and applications that secure significant income from trusts and foundations, co-ordinating input from across The Avenues team.
• To research and identify new prospects with a view to securing medium and large grants for The Avenues.

Deadline for applications is 28th January 2022 12pm.

The Abbey Community Association is a charity operating out of a large community centre and hub in the heart of south Westminster, bringing together local people and organisations to address local community needs.

This role is a new post, funded by Charities Aid Foundation, that will support service users, including those with complex needs referred by colleagues and other organisations, on a wide range of issues. The successful candidate will provide advice, practical and emotional support and signposting to additional support, and so a qualification in Information, Advice and Guidance would be a distinct advantage.

Imagine going home tonight not to your flat, with the TV on and the dog waiting but to a park bench or shop doorway. No hot dinner, no warm bed, in fact no bed.  Unimaginable? Sadly not for the hundreds of people we work with every year. Do you think you could make a difference to their lives? Could you tell their story across a range of media to get others to notice them and do something to change their future? If you do then read on ……….

We have been transforming lives of those experiencing homelessness across SW London for over 30 years.  We have big ambition and our clients are at the heart of everything we do.

SPEAR is dynamic and unique – much like those who work with us. Their expertise and commitment has enabled SPEAR to thrive, despite all the challenges of the last couple of years.

ARE YOU THE RIGHT SORT OF PERSON TO MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE?

Bringing alive the stories of our clients is challenging but when we do it right it unlocks so much – financial support, people coming forward to give their time and importantly, more people become aware of the problem that exists all around us and that makes them committed to make change happen.

We’re looking for an outstanding communications professional to lead and develop all communications – you will have strong experience of developing multi-channel communications plans and taking a communications campaign forward through different digital and offline channels. Proficient across IT systems and platforms you will also have commissioned and designed creative publications and branded materials and actively led on web, branding and social media.

But we know communications needs buy in, so we need you to take a collaborative to ensure full support and active participation across the organisation allowing you also to act as our brand champion. Your strong copy writing & editorial skills and attention to detail will help us maximise our opportunities and reach.

We need you to have creative flair and thrive in a fast paced environment and we especially need you to be passionate and committed to making a real difference to people experiencing homelessness.

IS THIS THE RIGHT TIME FOR YOU TO JOIN US?

This is a time of change at SPEAR when we are actively looking to do things differently. The Fundraising & Communications team will soon have a new leader and as an organisation we are looking to expand our provision and reach more people. This role will sit right at the heart of that change.

Does this sound like something you could do? Do you feel homeless people deserve better? If so, read more about the role in the Job Description. 

Benefits
• Salary of £35000 per annum
• 26 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (rising to 31 with length of service)
• Pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of benefits, including cycle to work scheme
• Training and development opportunities

SPEAR welcome and encourage applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.
 

Lantern Arts Centre is seeking a passionate and driven individual to join our team as the lead for marketing and communications. You will oversee all aspects of our marketing and digital strategy, be responsible for content creation, campaign design and managing our digital platforms. You will also act as our Box Office Manager, designing the customer journey, ensuring that sales targets are met and providing excellent customer service at all times. You’ll be joining a small team and with lots going on, you’ll also be expected to support the day to day running of our centre in Raynes Park too.

With proven marketing experience (preferably with digital campaigns), you will be passionate about community arts, be highly organised and have a can-do attitude. Being able to work as part of a team is essential but you’ll also need to be motivated at working independently. Ideally, you’ll have led projects through from first concept through to completion, have a background in the arts and are used to working with volunteers.

If this is you, we’d love to get to know you. You can download the job application pack at our website. Everything you need to know about how to apply is inside.

The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 04 February. Note that applications are being considered on a rolling basis and you are therefore advised to apply early.

Key Info

Current hours: 4.5 days per week

Initial Fixed term contract of 12 months with the intention to extend.

Proposed Post Start Date: 1st March 2022

Salary: £30,000 per year pro rata
Report to: Board of Trustees of Thornton and Allerton Community Association Ltd

Overview

South Square Centre is a grassroots, arts and heritage centre embedded in its local community. It has a vibrant programme of exhibitions, events, workshops, as well as strong partnerships with local schools, care homes and community organisations. Since April 2020, South Square has been nimble and quick to adapt its working practices to best serve the community.  In the last 18 months, South Square has engaged with 4k+ participants all whilst undertaking major capital development of the building.

There is a volunteer board of trustee Directors, and a small staff team. In addition to this post the staff include a Programme Manager (2.5 days pw), Arts and Heritage Coordinator (4 days pw), Building Manager (12 hrs pw) and Cleaner (6 hrs pw). South Square also has a longstanding traineeship programme to enable trainees to undertake their first paid role in a cultural organisation. There is a great range of tenants at South Square including Plenty at the Square Café, The Watchmakers, Bradford Community Cinemas, Thornton Antiquarian Societies archive and 10 artist studios. 

In 2019 South Square was pleased to secure a 99-year lease through a Community Asset Transfer of the building and in 2021 the building underwent an extensive refurbishment. The long-term security of tenure and warmer more welcoming building provide a great platform for engaging with communities and programming arts and heritage activities. Early next year there will be a number of access improvements made that will further open up the centre’s users and participants.

The Centre Director plays an essential role in the running of South Square. This is an exciting opportunity to help design and lead on the organisations strategy in the lead up to Bradford’s bid to be city of culture in 2025.

The Centre Director will instigate the creative and public programme, and have a strong grasp of the centre’s finances, business plan, partnerships, and organisational development.

South Square consists of a compact team with myriad roles therefore staff, volunteers and trustees work collaboratively and support one another.

Our working environment promotes learning and experimentation, a culture which has been engrained from the centres’ beginnings in the 1980’s. We work with a wide range of people; we have a strong track record of providing development opportunities for staff, volunteers as well as emerging businesses and artists.

South Square is currently in receipt of funding from National Lottery Heritage Fund, this funding comes to an end in March 2023. South Square are making an application to become an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation which will take us from April 2023 to March 2026. If successful, with the NPO application the Centre Director will be required to submit a business plan to Arts Council England in October 2022. If unsuccessful, they will explore alternative funding opportunities such as Arts Council England project grants and Reaching Communities England. It is an exciting time to help shape the future of South Square Centre’s programme in the lead up to Bradford’s bid to be City of Culture in 2025. There will be a month handover period with the Centre’s existing Director and also support offered following this as required.

Artsadmin is looking for a Finance Manager to support the Head of Finance in managing the charity’s finances. They will ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the finance processes and support informed decision-making through monthly monitoring and reporting to Head of Finance, Executive and Artistic Directors (joint CEOs).  The role’s principal tasks include preparing budgets, forecasts, commentaries, analyses and financial statements, payroll management and bank reconciliations.

This is a new, full-time post with scope to really make a difference to a well-regarded arts charity. Artsadmin is a company of creative people working with artists to develop and make performance projects for local, national and international audiences in a variety of places and contexts. This is an exciting time to join us as we embark on the next chapter of our work, updating our artistic programme, refreshing our brand and reviewing our connections to our local area of Aldgate East.  

The successful candidate will be a self-starter with demonstrable experience of working and helping to drive change within a finance function and of building relationships with non-finance stakeholders. They will have strong analytical, communication and organisational skills, be outcome-focused and either have, or be pursuing, a professional accountancy qualification, or qualified by experience.

Salary: £30,000-£35,000 per annum, depending on experience

Deadline for applications: 12pm on 27 January 2022. 

First interviews: w/c 7 February 2022

Type of contract: Permanent, full-time 

Hours of work: 40 hours per week including a paid lunch hour. Office hours are usually 10am – 6pm Monday to Friday. Flexible working available.  
Location: Flexible between office and home working 

Holidays: 20 days plus 8 statutory holidays and additional winter break

Staff benefits: 

• Pension scheme with Royal London

• Subsidised Bike Purchase 

• Travel Card / Season Ticket Loan 

• HSF Health Plan 

• Life Assurance at four times annual salary 

• Group Income Replacement Scheme 

• Childcare Salary Sacrifice Scheme 

As our Marketing and Communications Manager, you'll be responsible for managing all our marketing initiatives, using market research and analysis to devise and direct our marketing strategy and planning.

Overseeing the production of all promotional materials and marketing campaigns, you'll ensure a consistent, wide-reaching and engaging approach to marketing that raises the profile of our work and demonstrates the life changing impact that we have in communities around the world.

It's an exciting, fast paced role with huge potential to make a real difference. Full details, including information on how to apply, is available on our website.

The London Irish Centre is a unique organisation. It was established in 1954 to provide support for young Irish emigrants in London. Its role has developed significantly over the decades with it offering a whole range of services as well as cultural and social events which keep the traditions of Ireland alive for this ex pat community.

The Board of Trustees has approved an ambitious multi-million-pound capital build project to create a new Centre on the existing site. This is to ensure it is a fit-for-purpose building which is easily accessible and environmentally sound, providing a fantastic venue for Community Service, Arts and Cultural activities.

A new strategy is also under development to ensure that services reflect modern day needs. This includes a focus on education to promote Ireland & Irish culture to London audiences as well as keep Irish heritage alive for future generations.

The London Irish Centre is looking for an exceptional leader to become its next CEO and deliver on its ambitious goals. We’re looking for someone who has a deep knowledge and passion for Ireland, its Culture and heritage.

You will have strong business acumen and deep senior leadership and management experience. You will need to evidence superb strategy development, income generation and relationship management skills. You will be interacting with a variety of stakeholders, supported by an eminent Board of Trustees and engage with service users themselves so should have excellent communication skills and be comfortable at engaging at all levels. Added to that, you will need to be tenacious, agile, and resilient.

You need not necessarily come from the third sector, provided you have the empathy and understanding of how a charitable organisation works and how to ensure regulatory compliance.  

If you would like more information about this incredible opportunity or know anyone who might be interested, then please contact us today for the full candidate pack.

How To Apply

 You are advised to get in touch well in advance of the closing date to give us time to consider your application and pre-interview the strongest applicants.

Closing Date: Midnight Sunday, 13th February 2022
Interview Date: Monday 28th February 2022

This search is being conducted exclusively for London Irish Centre by BTA (Bruce Tait Associates). Our leadership team have all worked in the voluntary sector and academia and we use this experience to match organisations and individuals to create great appointments.

Core Arts are looking for Membership Officer ( maternity cover 12 months ) to offer their skills and expertise to support the membership team to deliver a high quality service to our members.

Core Arts  is a Mental Health Charity based in Hackney offering a range of creative arts activities to  improve health and wellbeing to adults who experience mental health issues. We have over 800 clients at any one time using Core Arts/Core Sports services, working with up to 1500 people per annum.

The role is within the membership team that offers empowering support planning, motivational guidance, case management, creative goal setting and oversees individual development to deliver Core Arts Creative services to our members.

The ideal candidate will have excellent hands on experience in mental health support work and knowledge of the challenges this group face, and how the Creative Arts support recovery. An understanding of using person centered and motivational recovery focused ethos is essential.

The candidate will have managed a caseload of clients, worked dynamically with various staff teams, be confident in developing quick rapport with clients. Plus have strong experience of working with external partnerships, including secondary care clinicians.

We are looking for candidates who:

• Client focussed and able to energise and engage
• Be able to manage a high volume of administration as part of the role 
• Enjoy working in a fast paced environment and likes change.
• Likes the challenge of adapting their approach to fit with the different client groups.
• Can fit in with teams and quickly adapt to a team culture and ethos
• Have a flexible, resilient, thoughtful, therapeutic approach to working with clients with complex needs.
• Have ability to be self- motivating, work under pressure and manage time effectively prioritising different areas of work according to need.
• Must also be enthusiastic about working with arts and education in order to support clients to improve confidence and quality of life.
• You must be innovative in your approach & working practices.

  You will be comfortable working within a strengths and recovery framework, & will ensure that all aspects of your working practices are delivered to the highest standard are fully compliant with organisational values and contractual requirements and reflect current good practice.

  If you think  you would like to join our team we would love to hear from you

Poole Arts Trust Ltd is the company that manages Lighthouse, Poole – the UKs largest regional arts centre.

Lighthouse is the leading cultural venue in Dorset, presenting nationally acclaimed arts and community engagement locally from our home in Poole and the Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole (BCP) region.

Our building has several venues under one roof, including a large-scale symphonic concert hall, a mid-scale theatre, a studio theatre, cinema, galleries, and an outdoor amphitheatre.

Lighthouse provides a year-round programme of high quality and diverse arts and entertainment from national, international, and regional artists, providing the community with opportunities to engage in a broad range of arts activities and experiences. Primarily a receiving venue, the variety and varying sizes of our spaces enables us to present a huge range of work from all art forms and scale – from high profile artists to those starting out, from large commercial promoters to small scale funded artists and companies. We are home to the internationally acclaimed Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and several arts organisations who use our venue to deliver arts activities and cultural training.

Lighthouse is committed to having a diverse board that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion and so very much welcome applications from people who will bring difference to our team.

We are seeking new board members, who thanks to technology and flexible meeting arrangements, can join us

from across the country to support the senior management team to drive our continuing success and fulfil our ambitions for the future.  You will help to shape overall strategy, ensure the quality and compliance of our governance and trading activities and provide invaluable independent guidance and judgment to help us realise our vision. Joining an experienced board, new Trustees will have substantial senior-level experience and expertise and will be able to work at a strategic level alongside Lighthouse executive team. You may not have had professional experience of a cultural organisation before, but if you are passionate about what culture provides for our community then we would be pleased to hear from you.

Whilst we welcome expressions of interest from all candidates, we are particularly keen to hear from applicants with the following knowledge and experience:

• Legal
• Digital and Information Technology
• Artist / Performer
• Fundraising

Trustees serve as non-executive directors for one or two terms and time is given voluntarily. A minimum term of three years’ commitment is required. Meetings take place five times a year mainly on a Tuesday early evening plus an annual away day. Meetings may be attended in person or via our online digital platform. Trustees will also be asked to become a member of a small subcommittee that focuses on a particular subject or area such as the Strategy Group or Equality/Diversity/Inclusion Group. Previous board experience is preferable but not essential. We will be holding an online webinar for interested parties in the second week of February and details will be provided upon request.

In return, we provide a lively, friendly and interesting place to contribute to, a unique opportunity to help progress an ambitious organisation and of course opportunities to experience many wonderful performances.

Deadline for applications: 26 / 02 /2022

Strategically set in the heart of Oxford, New Road Baptist Church strives to build community, promote peace and advance social justice, based on the imperatives of the Christian gospel.

Our vision is to be a place of dynamic connection, a way-station where pilgrims of all sorts can connect with each other and with God.

Despite the global pandemic we see many opportunities to ‘revive, restore and improve’, for example via a partnership project focusing on long-term solutions to chronic homelessness in Oxford.

To help us fulfil our vision we seek to appoint a full time Operations & Development Manager (initially for a period of two years, then subject to review), focusing on:

• Premises - Overseeing the management and day to day running of the site and cultivating imaginative ways to develop further a social justice hub at the heart of the city
• Events - Working with church members and project partners to develop and implement the social justice initiative; supporting planning and facilitating of other church events.
• Governance - supporting the minister, officers and charity trustees in implementing decisions and fulfilling legal and regulatory obligations

Location: Coram’s Fields, Kings Cross

Salary: £36,000-£38,000

Hours: Full-time, 35hrs per week, some home working may be considered however, the majority of the role will be based on site.

Since its inception in 1936, Coram’s Fields has existed for one reason only, to provide a space dedicated to the children of London, where they can roam freely and safely in an environment that remains unique to this day.

85 years on, our work remains rooted in its founding principles however, over the eight decades since the organisation was established, the needs of the community for which we serve have changed considerably. As a result, our services have needed to evolve to tackle the many complex issues facing children and young people growing up, in what is a densely populated area of London, where 48% live in poverty and over 60% are on the children’s social care register.

Today, alongside the provision of a seven acre park, playground and sports facilities, we deliver a wealth of services that include; an under 5’s drop in, a thirty five place nursery, after school clubs, holiday schemes, a free – five day a week sports programme and youth programme delivered from our state of the art youth centre.

COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the charity’s finances and we are still in the process of recovering from the pandemic. Government grants, our most successful public fundraising campaign to date and generous support from trusts, foundations and grant giving bodies have provided a strong foundation for our recovery. More importantly, they have ensured that we have been able to continue to provide vital support to the hundreds of children that we work with every single week.

As we emerge from the COVID crisis, our main fundraising focus will be on increasing support through our new corporate programme, Connecting Futures, our major donor programme and through the growth of individual and regular giving, whilst maintaining and extending support from trusts and foundations.This is a challenging but hugely rewarding role and one in which you will be able to see the immediate impact of your success.

Our Connecting Futures programme has, since being launched in May 2021, secured support from a host of companies, ranging from London law firms to global media, construction and brand/lifetyle businesses. Alongside this, the success of our public emergency fundraising campaign in 2020, demonstrated the importance of Coram’s Fields to the local community and saw over 1,000 donors collectively raise over £110,000 to protect the charity’s future.

The opportunity to grow and develop our corporate partnerships and harness the support of the local community, to deliver life changing support for young people, and a sustainable income base for the charity, should drive your interest in the role.

As the principle fundraising resource, you will be adept at working under your own initiative however, your role as part of the Charity’s SMT will see you work closely with a committed senior team.

You’ll be joining an organisation with a strong history of delivering outstanding services for its beneficiaries and a staff team committed to changing the lives of young people for the better. A commitment to training, development and organisational wide support will ensure that you will be working in an environment created to enable success in all areas of your work, and one that balances opportunities for autonomy with clear strategic direction.

Your passion and commitment to the cause will be critical to your success, as will your ability to articulate with great confidence, the immeasurable impact that Coram’s Fields has on those that it serves.

You will be an ambitious professional, for whom the opportunity to shape the future of this unique organisation and make your own mark on it will hold huge appeal.

To apply, visit our website through the link at the top of the listing.

The final deadline for the role is 5pm on Friday 4th February 2022 however, applicants should note that applications will be assessed on a rolling basis and shortlisted applicants may be invited to interview before the application deadline.

Coram’s Fields is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Coram’s Fields is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of all children and young people. All those applying for a role with the charity, are subject to robust safeguarding checks and will need to demonstrate clearly, their commitment to safeguarding. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and all post holders are required to register with the DBS update service.