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Team Coordinator
Youth Futures Foundation is the national What Works Centre for youth employment, with a specific focus on marginalised young people.
We find and generate high-quality evidence to better understand England’s’ youth unemployment and inactivity challenge, and most importantly to learn what solutions work to address this. We do this through bringing together the best evidence already in existence and build on this by conducting original research and testing and evaluating promising interventions to produce much needed new evidence where there are gaps.
We are looking for a dynamic Team Coordinator to provide administrative and business support to the Programmes and Grants Directorate. The successful candidate will help us to deliver our objectives by providing seamless support and delivery. They will:
Understand the needs of the teams, the context in which they operate, and focus on problem-solving and working with others to meet objectives.
Help the teams to work effectively, co-ordinate team activities, maintain relationships, alongside supporting operational excellence
Work flexibly as needs evolve to support teams, and occasionally, support cross-Directorate colleagues.
Use digital ways of working, technology and platforms to achieve goals.
This role will be based at our Birmingham office.
We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home.
For more information and a full job description, please download the Recruitment Pack.
HOW TO APPLY
Click on the 'Apply on website' button below to apply online. The closing date for applications is Sunday 28th September 2025 11:59 PM.
As part of Youth Futures Foundation’s safeguarding policy, all employees are subject to a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, some positions may require an enhanced level disclosure.
The young people we aim to serve – and the challenges they face - are all unique. We are looking to build a team that reflects this diversity. Our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, class, religion, identity, and experience forms the cornerstone of our work. We are an equal opportunities employer, Mindful Employer, Disability Confident and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are particularly keen to encourage people with lived experience of the challenges facing young people in the labour market, and committed to supporting you in your application. Please contact us if you require any additional support.
Internally, we encourage an open, collaborative and inclusive working environment.
We are the national What Works Centre for youth employment, with a specific focus on marginalised young people.




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Support Coordinator
This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke. We are looking for an innovative, passionate, and professional individual with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills to join the Stroke Recovery Service based in Macclesfield.
Position: S11313 Stroke Support Coordinator
Location: Home-based – Macclesfield, East Cheshire. However, extensive travel will be required as part of this role (may include team meetings or other work-related meetings)
Salary: Circa £21, 948 per annum (FTE circa £27,400 per annum)
Hours: Part-time, 28 hours per week
Contract: Our services are contracted; we currently have funding for this contract until 31 March 2026. While continued funding beyond this date cannot be guaranteed, we have maintained regular contracts in this area for many years and are confident in the likelihood of securing future funding
Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.
Closing Date: 21 September 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Interview Date: 30 September 2025
Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application.
The Role
Reporting to the Service Delivery Coach, you will have the ability to support stroke survivors to identify their goals. Using strong assessment skills and a person-centred approach enabling them to maximise their recovery and improve communication.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Supporting new stroke survivors and their carers from hospital discharge into the community.
- Provide personalised information, advice and support.
- Supporting stroke survivors to make informed lifestyle changes which will help them to prevent further strokes.
- Work collaboratively with NHS colleagues and other areas of the community to make a difference in the lives of people affected by stroke.
About You
You will have experience in:
- Experience/background in a caring profession, ideally supporting people with disabilities
- Excellent IT skills and an ability to maintain accurate records.
- An affinity with the values of the Association.
- A flexible approach and an ability to effectively manage a caseload.
This role requires extensive travel across a large geographical locality to visit people at home and in community settings. Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role
To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.
When you click to apply, you will be able to see the full responsibilities and person specification for further information on the role.
Please submit your CV, (including details of your current address), and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience.
Finding strength through support
The organisation is the only charity in the UK providing lifelong support for all stroke survivors and their families. Providing tailored support to tens of thousands of stroke survivors each year. This support includes one-to-one and group support, funding vital scientific research into stroke prevention, acute treatment, recovery and long-term care, and campaigning to secure the best care for everyone affected by stroke.
They are here for stroke survivors and their loved ones, from the moment they enter the new and frightening post-stroke world, supporting them every step of the way as they find their strength and their way back to life.
It’s only thanks to the generosity of supporters and donors that they can provide vital support.
The Association is driven by an ambition to improve the lives of everyone affected by stroke. This means they’re determined to create an equitable and inclusive workplace that benefits from the difference, and thrives on the diversity, of our people. Guided by an approach to solving inequity in stroke, the team are prioritising listening to, and learning from, lived experience across the charity.
The charity are working to improve the representation of this lived experience at all levels within the Association and are eager to recruit applicants from a variety of communities and backgrounds. We are keen to receive applications from people affected by stroke, people of colour, members of LGBT+ communities, and disabled people because these identities and experiences are underrepresented and would add enormous value to how the organisation work.
A Disability Confident employer, the organisation is making great progress focusing on flexible working, reasonable adjustments and access to work. The charity has a variety of staff network groups and are committed to continuously improving diversity and inclusion efforts. If you have questions, or access needs, we’re happy to discuss any support and adjustments we can make throughout the recruitment process so that you’re able to contribute your best in a way that meets your needs.
You may also have experience in areas such as Care Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care, Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice, Social Care, Carer Support, Support Service. #INDNFP
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
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Support Coordinator
We’re looking for an innovative, passionate and professional individual with excellent communication and organisational skills to join the Stroke Recovery Service based in North Somerset
Position: S11318 Stroke Support Coordinator
Location: Home-based, North Somerset. However, frequent travel will be required as part of this role (to include team meetings or other work-related meetings)
Salary: Circa £27,400 per annum
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Contract: This is a fixed-term contract until October 2026
Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.
Closing Date: 28 September 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Interview Date: 2 October 2025
Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following a stroke.
The Stroke Support Coordinator will:
- Support new stroke survivors and their carers from hospital discharge into the community.
- Provide personalised information, advice and support.
- Support stroke survivors to make informed lifestyle changes, which will help them to prevent further strokes.
- Work collaboratively with NHS colleagues and other areas of the community to make a difference in the lives of people affected by stroke.
About You
You will have experience in:
- Experience of providing person centred support to empower vulnerable people or people with a disability or long-term health condition and their carers
- Ability to nurture emotional resilience needed to handle a variety of calls, potentially dealing with complex and challenging situations whilst working in your own home
- Experience in facilitating face to face group work with vulnerable people or people with a disability or long-term health condition.
- Effective listening skills with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a diverse audience including anyone experiencing communication difficulties via a combination of face-to-face visits or meetings, telephone calls, emails or letters, and digital methods (such as video calls)
This role requires extensive travel across the geographical locality to visit people at home and in community settings. Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role.
To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.
When you click to apply, you will be able to see the full responsibilities and person specification for further information on the role.
Please submit your CV, (including details of your current address), and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience.
Finding strength through support
The organisation is the only charity in the UK providing lifelong support for all stroke survivors and their families. Providing tailored support to tens of thousands of stroke survivors each year. This support includes one-to-one and group support, funding vital scientific research into stroke prevention, acute treatment, recovery and long-term care, and campaigning to secure the best care for everyone affected by stroke.
They are here for stroke survivors and their loved ones, from the moment they enter the new and frightening post-stroke world, supporting them every step of the way as they find their strength and their way back to life.
It’s only thanks to the generosity of supporters and donors that they can provide vital support.
The Association is driven by an ambition to improve the lives of everyone affected by stroke. This means they’re determined to create an equitable and inclusive workplace that benefits from the difference, and thrives on the diversity, of our people. Guided by an approach to solving inequity in stroke, the team are prioritising listening to, and learning from, lived experience across the charity.
The charity are working to improve the representation of this lived experience at all levels within the Association and are eager to recruit applicants from a variety of communities and backgrounds. We are keen to receive applications from people affected by stroke, people of colour, members of LGBT+ communities, and disabled people because these identities and experiences are underrepresented and would add enormous value to how the organisation work.
A Disability Confident employer, the organisation is making great progress focusing on flexible working, reasonable adjustments and access to work. The charity has a variety of staff network groups and are committed to continuously improving diversity and inclusion efforts. If you have questions, or access needs, we’re happy to discuss any support and adjustments we can make throughout the recruitment process so that you’re able to contribute your best in a way that meets your needs.
You may also have experience in areas such as Care Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care, Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice, Social Care, Carer Support, Support Service. #INDNFP
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
About the role
At the heart of our operations, our exceptional Regional Casework Coordinators serve as the primary point of contact for members of the armed forces community reaching out to our Regional Offices for support.
In this dynamic role, no two days are the same. You may be supporting individuals in distress over the phone, managing email and voicemail communications, collaborating with volunteers on complex casework, building strong relationships with local authorities and charitable organisations, or working closely with internal services to secure the best possible outcomes for our clients.
You will sometimes handle complex problems from individuals who may be distressed, identifying the presenting and potential underlying needs to determine the best way to support them. You will have ownership of cases from beginning to end, coordinating the casework process in a timely manner and ensuring that the beneficiary journey is at the centre of the Service.
Whilst the post is homebased, to be eligible for this role you are required to live in the East of England region in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, or Essex.
You will occasionally be required to travel around the region or further afield, to attend face to face meetings or training events.
To help you establish yourself in this new post you will receive excellent training and induction to SSAFA. You will initially be required to attend an in-person caseworkers’ course which may require an overnight stay.
About the team
Reporting to the Regional Casework Manager our Casework Coordinators, together with our Volunteer Caseworkers, work remotely within the regional office area. With beneficiaries at the heart of everything we do, team members pride themselves in building and maintaining close working relationships to ensure the smooth operation of the office. The wider regional support team includes a Regional Manager, Volunteer Development Manager and a Community Engagement Manager.
About you
To thrive in this role, you'll demonstrate composure and resilience, paired with genuine empathy and a strong commitment to supporting those in need.
Our beneficiaries are at the heart of everything we do. To support them effectively, you’ll need to be an attentive listener and a clear, compassionate communicator.
You will have experience of providing welfare support, especially on the telephone and an understanding of benefits, debt management, disability, homelessness, local authority provision or mobility would be a real benefit. Understanding the way of life of today’s Armed Forces, veterans and their families and experience of working with volunteers would be a real advantage.
Knowledge of Safeguarding and GDPR is essential in this sensitive role as team members are responsible for recording and protecting personal data and reporting safeguarding concerns.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 applications is essential, and prior experience using a case management system would be highly advantageous. It is important that you have experience of planning and managing your own workload, with minimal supervision.
About SSAFA
SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity is a trusted source of support for the Armed Forces community in their time of need. In 2024 our trained teams of volunteers and employees helped more than 54,000 people, including veterans, serving personnel (regulars and reserves) and their families.
SSAFA understands that behind every uniform is a person. And we are here for that person and their family, any time they need us and in any way they need us.
Diversity and Inclusion at SSAFA
SSAFA exists to support a diverse range of beneficiaries within the armed forces community, and we believe diversity within our teams is key to ensuring we can deliver our services effectively. We thrive on differences and believe it is critical to our success as a worldwide charity. SSAFA is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace that seeks to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We therefore encourage applications from all genders, races, religions, ages and sexual orientations, as well as parents, veterans, people living with disabilities, and any other groups that could bring diverse perspectives to our business.
SSAFA is committed to using the Disclosure & Barring Service to ensure we, as an employer, safeguard those we serve.
No agencies please. Any unsolicited submissions from agencies will be accepted as a direct application from the candidate and no fees will be payable.
Recently unsuccessful candidates need not reapply
Closing date: Midnight of 21 September 2025. SSAFA reserves the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Interviews: Week commencing 29 September 2025.
As part of the selection process, you will be required to complete an assessment.
Our vision A society in which the Armed Forces, veterans and their families can thrive.

Job Description
Job Title: | Family Support Worker |
Location | RMC operates four branches located in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, and Dudley. The successful candidate will be based at the Birmingham, or Wolverhampton site and will be required to travel to all branches as needed. This is an in-person, on-site role with no hybrid or remote work options available |
Reporting To: | Deputy Regional Resettlement Manager |
Salary and benefits: | £23,500-£25,000 (dependent to experience) Additional Benefits: · Company-matched pension scheme · Employee assistance program · Health and wellness support · Mental health resources · Comprehensive training and opportunities for career advancement |
Hours: | 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. |
Contract: | Fixed term till 31 March 2026 |
Annual Leave: | 21 days + 1 concessionary day and 8 Bank Holidays |
About the Role
The Refugee and Migrant Centre is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Family Support Worker to join our Resettlement Department. As part of our mission to assist refugees and migrants in overcoming barriers to integration, this role will play a key part in helping newly arrived refugees settle into their new communities with confidence and independence.
RMC is a well-established charity with over 25 years of experience working with vulnerable refugees and migrants. We provide a range of services, including immigration advice, housing support, welfare assistance, and employment guidance. Our work ensures that refugees and migrants receive the necessary support to become equal citizens in the UK.
Purpose of the Role
The Family Support Worker will support newly arrived refugees and their families, enabling them to navigate the complex challenges of settling into the UK. Working closely with our multi-skilled resettlement team, you will deliver holistic support to refugees across a range of services, including welfare benefits, housing, health, education, and employment. You will also play a key role in empowering families to build their confidence, independence, and long-term integration into the community.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Client Support & Case Management:
- Manage a caseload of newly arrived refugee families, providing tailored support to meet their specific needs.
- Conduct home visits and orientation sessions to welcome clients to their new community and complete holistic needs assessments.
- Develop Personal Integration Plans for each household on a quarterly basis, helping them set goals for long-term independence.
- Coordinate support with external agencies and specialists to address clients’ needs, ensuring seamless service delivery.
- Support families with housing, welfare benefits, education, healthcare, and employment.
- Assist with registration for healthcare services (GPs, dentists, opticians) and support with medical assessments.
- Facilitate access to education for children and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes for adults.
- Provide guidance on immigration matters and ensure the correct paperwork is in place, including registering for Biometric Residence Cards and supporting welfare benefit applications.
- Ensure clients are financially supported by applying for relevant welfare benefits and assisting with mandatory reconsiderations as required.
Integration & Independence:
- Help clients develop the skills and knowledge to achieve independence, focusing on self-sufficiency and integration into the local community.
- Support families in securing suitable accommodation, liaising with landlords, housing providers, and relevant stakeholders.
- Provide ongoing orientation on UK systems, including financial rights and responsibilities, social services, and community resources.
- Encourage social integration by organising outings and community events to foster connections with local services and other refugees.
Partnership Working & Community Engagement:
- Work closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure that refugees have access to the services and support they need.
- Act as the lead contact for other agencies involved in supporting your clients, ensuring a collaborative approach to case management.
- Promote the long-term integration of refugees by identifying and facilitating opportunities for engagement with mainstream services.
Administrative & Reporting Duties:
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of client interactions and case progress, ensuring compliance with organisational policies.
- Provide written reports and case updates as required by the Resettlement Coordinator and Manager.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of services based on monitoring and evaluation feedback.
General Responsibilities:
- Uphold RMC’s values, principles, and policies, including those related to equal opportunity, confidentiality, and impartiality.
- Attend team meetings, training sessions, and contribute to service development initiatives.
- Provide feedback and suggestions for service improvements to ensure the best outcomes for refugees and migrants.
- Carry out other duties consistent with the nature of the role and in support of the Resettlement Department’s objectives.
Person Specification
Essential:
- Experience working with vulnerable individuals, particularly refugees or migrants.
- Strong understanding of the challenge’s refugees faces during resettlement and integration.
- Proven ability to manage a caseload and create detailed support plans.
- Experience in working with external agencies and coordinating services for clients.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to engage effectively with refugees, stakeholders, and service providers.
- Ability to manage sensitive and complex cases with a person-centred approach.
- Knowledge of UK welfare benefits, housing rights, and immigration services.
- Ability to maintain accurate records and use IT systems to document casework.
- Cultural competence and a commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion.
- Ability to work flexibly and independently, including delivering outreach services.
- Fluent in Farsi/Pashto and English.
Desirable:
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting volunteers to achieve client outcomes.
- Knowledge of community languages (particularly relevant to refugee populations) would be advantageous.
- Experience in delivering outreach support to families in their homes and community settings.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a car.
Flexibility
To achieve the objectives of this role, a degree of flexibility is essential. The post holder may be required to undertake duties not specifically listed above, provided they fall within the scope of the role and are appropriate to the pay grade. Accordingly, this job description will be reviewed periodically in consultation with the post holder to ensure it continues to reflect the responsibilities and duties of the position accurately.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their commitment to achieving positive outcomes. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Closing date: Tuesday, 30 September 2025, by 5:00 pm.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive enough suitable applications to take forward to interview prior to the published closing date.
Please note that if you require employer sponsorship to extend your right to work in the UK, the Refugee and Migrant Centre is not able to support visa sponsorship.
You’ll be at the heart of ensuring families caring for children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions receive the best possible support.
About the Role
As Lead Kentown Family Service Co-ordinator, you will:
- Oversee and support Family Service Co-ordinators across Lancashire, Cumbria, and Greater Manchester.
- Ensure families receive consistent, high-quality support through home visits, events, and online services.
- Co-ordinate complex referrals and help families access financial and practical assistance.
- Build partnerships with health, education, and voluntary sector organisations to widen support for families.
- Support data collection, reporting, and service improvement to strengthen our work and measure impact.
About You
You will bring:
- Experience working with children, young people, or families with complex needs in health, social care or voluntary settings.
- Strong organisational skills to co-ordinate services across multiple regions.
- Experience supporting or supervising staff or volunteers.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with families and professionals.
- A commitment to safeguarding, inclusion, and delivering family-centred support.
We exist to ensure every seriously ill child and their family gets the high-quality children’s palliative and end of life care





Job Title: Online Engagement and Inclusion Lead (Young People’s Services)
Organisation: Kids
Location: Remote work with occasional travel to London for in-person meeting
Hours: 36 hours per week
Contract: Fixed term for 2 years
Salary- £31,000 - £33,000
Purpose
This role leads the coordination of Kids’ online engagement and digital inclusion work for young people with SEND, including information provision, participation, and wellbeing support. You will deliver a two-year Online Wellbeing and Resilience Support Programme, including identifying and engaging digitally excluded young people to help them access vital digital tools and services. The role also drives collaboration across the Digital Services Consortium (a collaboration of 12 children’s charities), embedding shared learning, outcome measurement, and inclusive digital practices across Kids, and will create new capacity to work with young people to scope and deploy online campaigning activity.
Responsibilities
- To lead and coordinate Kids’ online engagement and inclusion work for young people with SEND. This includes Kids’ online information provision; voice/ participation and wellbeing work.
- To develop and deliver Kids’ two-year digital inclusion programme, Online Wellbeing and Resilience Support Programme* to ensure reach and impact is maximised.
- To work with the Digital Services Consortium Driving Digital Inclusion members on shared digital project outcome measures and community of practice, ensuring learnings and online engagement and digital inclusion principles are captured, shared and built into the organisation.
- To identify and recruit (working closely with colleagues from services across Kids) digitally excluded young people to the digital inclusion programme so they can become digitally included and access much needed support and guidance.
- To establish a holistic and joined up approach to Young People’s online engagement and digital inclusion with Kids.
- To create new capacity to work across all services and teams, and with a range of young people, to scope and deploy online campaigning capabilities in line with Kids’ Speak Up and wider national and local influencing work.
Key to your success in the role will be:
- Ensuring an audience-led approach, leading and championing an important collaborative way of working across Kids existing young people's services.
- Confidently working within the Kids digital infrastructure and context – understanding where we are at on our digital journey, building excellent problem-solving relationships with marketing, IT, change team and young people’s services colleagues.
- Helping to embed digital inclusion practices across the organisation.
- Applying strong digital, data and analytical skills to enable you to baseline, track and measure progress.
- Demonstrating excellent attention to detail whilst being flexible to adapt to the needs of a new programme.
- Influencing the broader Kids service teams to identify and engage digitally excluded young people.
- Centering the voices and needs of young people with SEND.
Person Specification
Experience
- Proven experience working in digital engagement initiatives, ideally with young people or vulnerable groups.
- Involvement in programmes that promote digital inclusion and wellbeing.
- Experience in outcome measurement, impact reporting, and using data to inform practice.
Desirable
- Experience in co-producing content or services with young people, including those with SEND.
Skills
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams and meet deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, tailored to diverse audiences including young people, professionals, and stakeholders.
- Skilled in using digital tools and platforms to deliver services and measure engagement.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams and build strong internal and external relationships.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of safeguarding principles and practices in online environments.
- Awareness of current trends in digital engagement and youth participation.
- Knowledge of inclusive digital design and accessibility standards.
- Understanding of digital inclusion principles and the barriers faced by digitally excluded young people.
Personal Attributes
- Passionate about inclusion, equity, and empowering young people.
- Committed to co-production and user-led design.
- Growth mindset and proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Committed to continuous learning and sharing best practices.
- Flexible and adaptable, with a collaborative mindset.
*About the funded programme
Kids Online Wellbeing and Resilience Support Programme will help young people with SEND (aged 13 – 25 years) build resilience, positive self-regard and meaningful connections.
Our goal is to reduce isolation and protect mental health through a supportive, inclusive digital environment. We’ll begin by consulting directly with young people to understand what they need most. Together, we’ll co-create new online content and resources that truly reflect their voices and experiences.
What the Programme Offers:
- Online information with resources codesigned with young people with SEND.
- A series of interactive webinars and guided online activities.
- Free devices and data to improve access to those who need it most, plus the support to ensure everyone can participate.
We will reach over 1,800 young people over the two year funded period.
Partner Acknowledgements
Thanks to National Lottery players, the Digital Services Consortium (DSC) has received over £1.5 million over two years from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK. The DSC has also received a grant of £400,000 from BBC Children in Need for two years to provide digital support for disabled or seriously ill children and young people and their family members across the UK. Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone have generously donated devices and data through the Good Things Foundation National Databank and Device Bank which will help address affordability barriers.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Birmingham Cathedral is a beautiful building with a wonderful community of worshippers, volunteers and staff. We are inspired by a strong sense of social justice, a passion for supporting those who are marginalised within the city and a commitment to celebrating all that is wonderful in our diverse city and diocese. We strive for our Cathedral to be fully representative of the richly diverse communities we serve, and have an unwavering desire to share God’s love, and the good news of Jesus Christ in a spirit of service.
Birmingham Cathedral demonstrates daily its attraction as a house of prayer to the people of the city and its international visitors. Alongside daily worship, enriched by the Anglican choral tradition, the Cathedral hosts diocesan, regional and national events and is responsive to immediate community needs for celebration and lament. With growing confidence and newly refurbished Burne-Jones windows, the Cathedral has a clear vision and strategy. The Cathedral’s strategic plan focusses on three priorities: Pray, Serve and Grow and gives Birmingham Cathedral a clear sense of purpose and direction.
The Fundraising Manager will be instrumental in supporting the wider team with our fundraising efforts. They will work closely with the Senior Management Team and the External Relations department along with the wider cathedral community. The Fundraising Manager will be responsible for trust and grangt funding applications as well as identifying new potential sources of income.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential
Experience in a Fundraising / Development role.
Demonstrable capacity to raise funds from trusts and foundations.
Exceptional communication skills, together with a confident and professional approach.
Must be self-motivated whilst understanding the importance of working as part of a team.
Sympathetic towards and supportive of the mission and values of the cathedral.
High level of administrative competence and comfortable handling and reporting on financial information.
The ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with a range of people including cathedral colleagues and external organisations.
Willingness to work flexibly, including evenings, weekends and public holidays as required.
Experience of working towards and delivering against an agreed financial target.
Empathy with the ethos of the Church of England.
Birmingham Cathedral is a Christian Church of the Anglican Communion and the seat of the Bishop of Birmingham. As the Church of England cathedral chur

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.