Centre Assistant Volunteer Roles in Liverpool

Family Futures is seeking a dedicated Grants and Corporate Fundraising Volunteer to join our team.

Family Futures is a not for profit, independent adoption and fostering agency and a therapy centre in London, rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2022 for the fourth consecutive time. We have a reputation for innovation and providing a gold standard service to children and families. It is an exciting time for Family Futures as we celebrate our 25th anniversary of helping families heal this year and develop our new strategy to drive forward our pioneering work into the future.

Family Futures provides an integrated interdisciplinary, assessment, treatment and family-finding service for children who are traumatised or have attachment difficulties. Our groundbreaking Neuro-physiological Psychotherapy (NPP) model takes a body-based and neuro-sequential approach to healing developmentally traumatised children and supporting their families and network. Our services extend to adoptive, foster, special guardian, and at risk families.

What you will be doing.

This volunteer role is within our Marketing and Communications team, working closely with the Marketing and Communications Manager and other roles across Family Futures, to achieve our fundraising targets, objectives and values. Our therapy, adoption and fostering services for children and families depend on our financial resilience.

By volunteering as a Funding and Grants Volunteer you will be helping us develop our fundraising strategy to ensure we have funds for projects which will improve our therapy space and better serve the community through enhanced services.

This is a rewarding opportunity to get involved in the ongoing development of Family Futures and to play an important role in helping generate income and build a pipeline of new funding opportunities to improve the mental health and outcomes of developmentally traumatised children.

Who is right for the role.

We are particularly looking for those who have some or all of the following qualities and experience:

• has a proven track record of successful trusts and foundations fundraising and knowledge of fundraising regulations.
• has effective communication and collaboration skills
• can build effective working relationships with others.
• is willing to keep proactively up to date with the external fundraising environment, identifying trends and opportunities.
• can understand the financial set up, budgets challenges and opportunities.

Please request an application pack to view full list of experience and skills desired for this role.

Duration commitment.

• Ideally committing to at least a year to provide consistency to the role and establish key relationships with funders and the local community.
• Commitment to being involved in a grant application/project from start to finish preferred.

What you will get out of it.

You'll get the opportunity to:

• spend time with like-minded people and make new friends.
• develop skills in fundraising, networking, and business engagement.
• raise money to help us improve the mental health and outcomes of developmentally traumatised children.

Family Futures will provide.

• Full induction to Family Futures and the role.
• Monthly supervision and support.
• Out of pocket expenses agreed in advance.
• Reference at the end of the volunteer placement.

We believe that embracing different perspectives enriches our agency’s culture and strengthens our ability to serve the children and families we work with. Therefore, we welcome applications from candidates from a wide range of lived experience and are actively recruiting people from the global majority, i.e. Black, Asian, dual heritage and minority ethnic groups as they are currently under-represented at our organisation.

Family Futures is a highly nurturing environment. We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce. We encourage applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Family Futures is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The organisation follows safer recruitment practices to protect children and adults at risk of harm and will require the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Who we are: 

We are a charitable non-government organisation located in Leicester. Our charitable activities are centred on developing community choirs, hosting events, and participating in local and national arts activities and festivals (Art). We develop activities that empower and engage community members like youth groups and the elderly (Community) and run mentoring programs and workshops in school/community settings (Education). 

Kainé Management is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. 

Job Summary: 

The Volunteer Social Media Admin will be responsible for designing, creating and managing Kaine’s presence on our social platforms. This will be achieved through engagement and brand connection through digital medium, regular content creation, sponsorships, events, campaigns, and effective media strategies. This is a remote position but you will be required to commute to the office for an introduction and occasional meet-ups. 

Key Responsibilities:

· Create and maintain Kainé’s presence on social platforms, these include our website, Facebook, Instagram etc. 

· Responsible for promoting our organisation over social media. 

· Regularly create, edit and publish engaging image, video, reels for social media channels. 

· Monitor and respond appropriately to messages and comments. 

· Analyse the effectiveness of your social media campaigns 

· Advertise current events and campaigns on social media platforms. 

· Increase the number of followers, likes, shares and post engagements on all relevant social media platforms. 

Other duties: 

Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned. 

Education and Experience: 

· Working towards or have a bachelor’s degree in marketing, Public Relations, Communications, Business Administration etc. (or relevant experience) 

· Marketing experience (preferable) 

· Experience in charity or Non-Governmental Organisation (preferable) 

About you: 

· Good leadership qualities. 

· Good conceptual and analytical abilities. 

· Clear, concise communicator 

· Passionate and enthusiastic 

· Ability to handle complex situations under pressure. 

· Time management and excellent negotiation skills 

· Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports. 

· Ability to persuade and influence others. 

· Ability to work effectively within a team and as an individual. 

· Attention to detail. 

Benefits: 

• Flexitime 

• Remote 

Ability to commute/relocate: 

• Must be able to reliably commute (or live within) Leicester. 

Nurse Lifeline is a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation  which aims to launch a peer-led listening service to support the mental and emotional health  and wellbeing of nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants and the friends and family of such staff. 

Our vision is to provide a space for all nurses, midwives, health care support workers and the friends and family of such staff to decompress and chat with a peer via a confidential listening service, with your support.  We launched a new email based service which allows service users to be able to offload by emailing in instead of speaking on the phone if they prefer.  Nurse Lifeline aims to foster a positive community, provide encouragement, and empower those within the nursing and midwifery workforce. We believe it’s time to get talking about mental and emotional health.

Are you committed to childhood flourishing with an interest in creating stragegies for this to happen?

Godly Play offers spiritually sensitive approaches to learning and living together in a fragile world. We take childhood spirituality seriously, providing training to transform thinking and practice for the whole of life.

A Christian movement, Godly Play seeks to make space for questions about the meaning and purpose of life, through play, wondering, story, exploration and community.

Our small board of trustees supports a group of fifteen part-time trainers offering courses to people working with children in churches of many traditions, in schools and in community settings. 

We would like to diversify our board's ethnicity, age and gender. It would be great to have someone with grant-seeking experience and/or communications know how, but we would love to talk to anyone who is interested.

Would you like to join us? Our website offers lots more information.