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LGBT Foundation is an impactful, vibrant charity with a wide portfolio of well-established services and rapidly developing new initiatives aimed at meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people. The Fundraising & Marketing Team at LGBT Foundation is a small yet collaborative group of professionals. They are dedicated to advancing the visibility and impact of the UK’s leading health and wellbeing charity. The team is responsible for implementing wide-ranging fundraising, communication, and marketing strategies. By leveraging various channels such as email marketing, the organisation’s website, video, social media, OOH advertising and traditional media, the team strives to support the national visibility, brand awareness, impact storytelling and income generation of the charity by attracting, engaging and stewarding a growing supporter base. LGBT Foundation’s Partnerships & Philanthropy Advisor will work with fundraising & marketing colleagues to deliver against strategic objectives and achieve in-year financial targets, significantly increasing income and support, specifically from corporates, individual giving (donations), legacies and fundraising events. In this role as a Partnerships & Philanthropy Advisor, corporate partnerships (attraction, engagement, and retention) will be a priority, ensuring members see the value in our offer.
You will also work with the Director of Fundraising & Marketing to shape four individual giving campaigns a year and two legacy awareness campaigns a year. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the Marketing Manager to keep fundraising information on webpages and social channels active, ensuring regular promotion of charity challenges and shaping digital mobilisation efforts which will build the charity’s supporter base, attracting more new donors.
You will support regular reporting on performance towards financial targets, working closely with colleagues to reconcile income, ensure Salesforce records and reports are up-to-date and that integrations support automated data flows.
We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other racially minoritised communities, trans*, non-binary, and/or older people (aged 50+), to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities in our staff team.
*Trans is an umbrella & inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.
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We celebrate and empower our diverse communities to realise their full potential, every day.
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Grants and Fundraising Advisor
We are seeking a skilled and proactive Fundraising Adviser to support parishes in securing funding for projects to improve and repair their church buildings.
This is an exciting hybrid working opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the care, preservation, and future development of church buildings across the diocese.
Position: Grants and Fundraising Advisor (internally known as Fundraising Adviser for the Church Buildings)
Location: Hove/Hybrid
Salary: £38,600 per annum
Hours: Full-time
Contract: 4 year fixed term contract
Closing Date: 9th February 2026
Interview Date: Hove on Tuesday 23rd February 2026.
About the Role
Working closely with the Church Buildings Team, Archdeacons, Parish Support, and external partners, you will play a key role in helping parishes achieve successful capital projects that strengthen mission, heritage engagement, and community use.
Main duties include:
- Provide expert advice on fundraising for church buildings and capital projects.
- Support parishes in identifying grant sources and preparing strong applications.
- Maintain a comprehensive database of grant making organisations.
- Give strategic guidance on fundraising approaches and income generation.
- Attend DAC site visits and meetings to advise on funding options.
- Build relationships with key funders including the Heritage Lottery Fund and National Churches Trust.
- Communicate funding news, deadlines and opportunities via diocesan channels.
- Organise and deliver training events and workshops.
About You
We are looking for someone who is confident in identifying funding sources and advising on grant applications and has experience of fundraising for capital projects.
You will be:
- Knowledgeable about heritage buildings and planning processes
- An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
- Highly organised with the ability to manage a varied workload.
- Proactive, creative, and enthusiastic about supporting parishes.
For full details of the job please see the job description and person specification when you click to apply.
About the Organisation
The vision of the Diocese is to help people to know, love and follow Jesus. Based in Hove and serving the people of Sussex across more than 360 parishes and 154 church schools and the wider community, this is a great role for someone who supports the ethos, aims and objectives of the Diocese and the Church of England.
As an employer, and as a Church House team, the mutual values at work are to be Respectful, Professional, Flexible and Supportive.
Benefits include:
- The opportunity to apply to use the DBF’s remote working policy to work from home for part of the week.
- 28 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays and 2 privilege days per year,
- Flexi-time, free parking, the ride to work scheme
- Membership of the Church Worker’s Pension Scheme with a 15.1% employer contribution and an employee contribution between 0-6%
- An Employee Assistance Programme with access to counselling support, GP helpline, financial, legal and care advice and support
- Free eye tests and employer contribution towards glasses
- Free parking, the ride to work scheme and development opportunities
The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders are expected to share this commitment and to comply with the relevant safeguarding policy.
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PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
