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NEW VOLUNTEER TEAM NEEDED! A DYNAMIC AND DEVELOPING MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY URGENTLY SEEKING VOLUNTEERS. HELP FORGE THE BEST MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLING SERVICE

Evolve Counselling is … changing. Over the next year we have an ambitious programme to meet a large and growing demand for professionally-delivered talking therapies. We have plenty of volunteering opportunities for you. Bring your skills and experience to help us, and in return be part of an empowering community - where you can thrive in a rewarding project. Build your CV! Try something new! Put your spare time to use! Revive your career skills! Do life-enriching work helping others! All roles are flexible hours, working remotely with full IT support.

Exciting and absorbing NEW volunteer job roles

Admin Assistant . Secretarial tasks supporting the Trustee Board: Scheduling meetings, preparing agendas and board papers, taking minutes, keeping records, monitoring compliance  with legal and contractual rules, etc. Admin support for CEO: Arrange external meetings, attend planning sessions and produce notes and minutes, schedule key business events, and keep diaries up to date. General office administration: Keeping records, directing calls and messages, maintaining files and building the business ‘memory’. We are looking for a highly efficient organiser, someone used to routine and fine detail, with good IT skills.

Finance Controller or Finance Assistant. Finance tasks supporting our growing charity, working with our external Book Keeper, outsourced payroll service, and the Board Treasurer. Tasks include producing monthly reports and stats for the Board, for funders and fundraising bids. Monthly financial reporting including monitoring of income and expenditure, variance analysis and cashflow forecasting, monthly management accounts, and annual financial statements - charity income and expenditure, balance sheet, P&L. Supporting annual budget setting, and assisting when data is required for grant submissions. You will ideally be, or have been, a chartered, AAT, or qualified-by-experience accountant, have Third Sector knowledge, and have an interest and passion  for charitable enterprises.

Communications and Media Coordinator or Assistant. We are looking for help to communicate much much better with counselling clients, funders, our own “Counselling Community” of therapists, and the wider voluntary sector across our large area. You’ll be writing news stories, success ‘profiles’, publicising regular and special events, and driving social media and the web  - building the brand for Evolve. This job will be great  for a pro-active social media “story teller”, looking to build their own profile by ‘owning’ this new area of Evolve’s work. You’ll need to be creative, organised, and literate, with a very self-motivated  approach. A background in PR, marketing, social media or news will be great for this role.
 

Marketing and Fundraising Specialist or Assistant. Help us to grow our client numbers, improve the service, generate a development fund for new innovations, and get our name in front of sponsors, donors, and other charity project funders. In this demanding but hugely rewarding new role you will be in at the beginning - creating campaigns, researching and writing bids, and working with our communications and media volunteer to build and promote compelling fundable projects.

About Evolve Counselling. Evolve Counselling is a long-established charitable social enterprise, providing low cost, affordable or funded mental health counselling to adults in Cambridgeshire and surrounding counties. Our counselling community is made up of 50 – 60 qualified self-employed practitioners, working part-time. We deliver talking therapies to adults – online and in person. Our service delivers around 500 counselling sessions per month to a broad range of individuals, many of whom would not otherwise be able to access counselling support. Evolve also provides supervision, reflective practice, critical incident support and mental health awareness and related training to organisations and businesses large and small.

We are looking for new trustees to join us supporting the Norfolk Chair to develop all aspects of the charity, and particularly welcome applications from those with an interest in marketing, campaigning and promotion of our membership.

CPRE Norfolk, the countryside charity, works to make Norfolk a better place for everyone to live, work and enjoy. We act locally and, with our head office nationally, to protect, shape and enhance a beautiful, thriving countryside for everyone to value and enjoy. We are an independent voice for the landscape, engaging with local and regional planning systems to ensure that our views are heard by decision makers. We campaign locally for positive solutions that will support the long-term future of Norfolk – one of England’s most rural areas.

By volunteering as a trustee with CPRE Norfolk you'll be helping us to find positive solutions for the issues facing the countryside and the environment in our beautiful county.

Our trustee roles involve being an active committee member by attending meetings and contributing ideas to develop and implement our Vision for Norfolk strategic plan; supporting the effective administration of our charity;being a positive advocate for CPRE Norfolk and encouraging others to support our work.

You will have good organisational and interpersonal skills and ideally an interest in marketing. Previous experience of working with committees is welcomed but not necessary, but we do ask for a commitment to CPRE policies.

We envisage that you will have at least 2-4 hours per month to spend developing this role which can largely be done from home. 

Please see the role profile document for more details about our needs, and our 'more about us' document for background to CPRE Norfolk. 

There is flexibility within our requirements, and we will provide support for the right candidate.

We’re passionate about making the countryside in Norfolk a better place for everyone to enjoy and are seeking a proactive leader, ideally with some experience of charity governance and board management, to become Chair of our charity.

We need someone to help advocate for our campaign priorities and oversee the future direction and development of our charity. Someone who will support our fundraising, membership and engagement initiatives, build relationships and represent CPRE Norfolk at key external stakeholder meetings, and liaise with other local CPREs and national CPRE.

As Chair you’ll provide leadership to our Board of Trustees, a team with a broad range of experience, and guide the future strategy, direction and development of our charity. Working collaboratively with your fellow Trustees, volunteers and paid support staff, you will help increase our visibility, promote our campaigns and increase our membership. You’ll help advocate for positive solutions and make a real difference with regard to the issues facing the local countryside and the environment.

Ideally, you will bring some of the following qualities:

• Previous experience in leadership, management and organisational development
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to demonstrate diplomacy, impartiality, respect and confidentiality
• Previous experience of committee work – paid or voluntary
• Knowledge of environmental and countryside issues
• Knowledge of the charity sector
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of working with people from different backgrounds and abilities
• Sufficient, flexible daytime and evening availability to fulfil the role (approximately 6 to 8 hours per week on average)
• A commitment to CPRE campaigns and initiatives
• We ask that all Trustees are, or are willing to become, members of CPRE (it’s quick and easy to join)

What’s in it for you?

You’ll have the satisfaction of leading a local charity with a long history of campaigning to promote, protect and enhance the Norfolk countryside. You’ll meet like-minded people throughout Norfolk and across the country,

You’ll get involved with social events, networking activities, and topical workshops on a local and national level, and you’ll be able to participate in relevant training.

The role requires approximately 2 to 4 hours per week on average, although this is flexible. You need to live in, or have close links to Norfolk to understand the local issues and challenges, and can carry out the role from home or the CPRE Norfolk office, with occasional travel elsewhere in the county.

We are looking for someone with a passion for environmental and countryside issues to join us in a leadership role as Hon Secretary, supporting the Chair and Treasurer to develop all aspects of the charity, including governance, campaigning, marketing and promotion. 

CPRE Norfolk, the countryside charity, works to make Norfolk a better place for everyone to live, work and enjoy. We act locally and, with our head office nationally, to protect, shape and enhance a beautiful, thriving countryside for everyone to value and enjoy. We are an independent voice for the landscape, engaging with local and regional planning systems to ensure that our views are heard by decision makers. We campaign locally for positive solutions that will support the long-term future of Norfolk – one of England’s most rural areas.
By volunteering with CPRE Norfolk you'll be helping us to find positive solutions for the issues facing the countryside and the environment in our beautiful county.

The Secretary role involves being an active committee member by attending meetings and contributing ideas to develop and implement our Vision for Norfolk strategic plan; circulating meeting papers; supporting the effective administration of our charity; contributing to investment decisions; ensuring compliance with the charity's constitution and charity law; being a positive advocate for CPRE Norfolk and encouraging others to support our work.

You will have good leadership, management and organisational and interpersonal skills, and previous experience of working with committees plus commitment to CPRE policies.

We envisage that you will have at least 4 hours per month to spend developing this role which can largely be done from home. 

Please see the role profile document for more details about our requirements, and our 'more about us' document for background to CPRE Norfolk. 

There is flexibility within our requirements, and we will provide support for the right candidate.

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. 

About Alopecia UK

Alopecia UK is a charity working to improve the lives of those affected by alopecia through aims of Support, Awareness and Research.  Founded in 2004, we work to help adults, young people and children affected by alopecia.  This includes those with the condition, as well as their loved ones.  We are a small charity working nationally across the UK.  Despite being small, we are the largest alopecia charity in the UK and have big ambitions to continue our growth and development, reaching more people and funding more research than ever before. 

We have a fantastic staff team and board of Trustees, as well as a loyal network of volunteers and supporters. This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate and innovative applicant to support a small yet dynamic charity, and make a lasting difference to the lives of those affected by alopecia.

Alopecia UK Trustee Board

Our Board of Trustees is responsible for the overall strategic direction of Alopecia UK. They represent a wide range of expertise from across finance, healthcare, communications, management and risk; in both private and public sectors.

The Trustee Board meets 4 times a year (two face-to-face meetings and two virtual meetings). Face-to-face meetings tend to be held on Saturdays from approximately 11am-4pm. Virtual meetings tend to be held midweek from approximately 6.30-8.30pm.

Trustees are encouraged to participate in charity campaigns and attend flagship events e.g. our Big Weekend and Alton Towers trip.

Trustees serve for a period of three years, with some trustees serving for more than one term.

The duties of a Trustee are as follows:

• Ensuring that the organisation pursues its stated objects.
• Ensuring that the charity complies with its governing document, charity law, company law and any other relevant legislation or regulations.
• Ensuring that the charity applies its resources exclusively in pursuit of its charitable objects.
• Ensuring that the charity defines its goals and evaluates performance against agreed targets.
• Safeguarding the good name and values of the charity.
• Ensuring the effective and efficient administration of the charity, including having appropriate policies and procedures in place.
• Ensuring the financial stability of the charity.
• Protecting and managing the property of the charity and ensuring the proper investment of the charity’s funds.
• Following proper and formal arrangements for the appointment, supervision, support, appraisal and remuneration of the staff team.

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

Please refer to the Charity Commission guidance on good practice of charity meetings, also to Alopecia UK’s Charity Commission records. You can also read Alopecia UK’s 2021-2024 strategy. 

Requirements for the role:

• A commitment to the charity’s mission to improve the lives of those affected by alopecia.
• A willingness to devote the necessary time and effort.
• Strategic vision with an ability to think creatively and generate ideas.
• Good, independent judgement.
• The confidence to challenge, question and speak their mind.
• An understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship.
• An ability to work effectively as a member of a team.
• A commitment to Nolan’s seven principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
• Ability to work collaboratively and establish credibility with the Charity's trustees.

Additional desirable skills:

• Charity experience/understanding of charity sector
• Legal background (compliance, data protection, HR etc)
• Fundraising experience
• Digital leadership skills
• Medical/clinical background

Supporting Statement

We would love to understand more about you and your reasons for wanting to join the board of trustees at Alopecia UK and this information will be key for us in shortlisting.  Within your supporting statement please comment on:

• Why you want to support the work of Alopecia UK as a trustee
• How you meet the person specification
• What you feel you would bring in terms of experience, skillset, and knowledge base
• Any knowledge/experience you have of Alopecia UK and whether you have been involved in the charity’s work in the past (not essential)

Your statement should not exceed 1,000 words. 

What is Alopecia?

Alopecia simply means hair loss.  There are many types of alopecia, and the charity supports people with all types of alopecia, because the psychological impact can be the same, regardless of cause or type.  The majority of people who contact Alopecia UK have Alopecia Areata, which is understood to be an autoimmune condition.  Alopecia Areata typically appears as patches on the scalp and/or beard. It sometimes progresses to Alopecia Totalis (total hair loss on the scalp), or Alopecia Universalis (total loss of hair from scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes and body).  This dramatic change in appearance, while not life threatening, is certainly life changing.  Altered feelings around identity and sense of self can impact on confidence and self-esteem, resulting in psychological challenges being presented in many everyday life situations.  What does Alopecia UK do?

Support – we facilitate peer support through our UK-wide support group network, online peer support platforms, national and regional events, and one-to-one support given to individuals via phone and emails.  We also maintain a website full of information, advice and support.

Awareness – we educate the general public about alopecia through social media, advice packs, events, our website and podcast.  We support various TV, radio, newspaper and magazine (both print and digital) media articles. We also advocate for the alopecia community amongst healthcare professionals and peer charities, with a view to improving the patient experience.

Research – we distribute research grants and lead our own research, with the support of our Research Committee and Lay Research Panel. We also support various research projects by helping to recruit participants for them.  We build awareness of alopecia research within the general public, the alopecia community and the medical community.

Alopecia UK Staff Team

Following 10 years of being entirely volunteer-led, Alopecia UK moved towards having paid staff resource in 2014, eventually culminating in the Charity’s first full-time employees in 2016.  The Charity opened its first office in the same year.  We now have six employed staff, led by our Chief Executive Officer Sue Schilling. Our staff are skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate about delivering the Charity’s aims.

While we have a small paid staff team, we have a larger overall team, as we utilise a lot of volunteer help in order for the Charity to provide the range of services that it does.