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Activities and Events Worker
Walthew House, Stockport
£27,850 per annum (pro rata) | Part-time (21 hours, 3 days per week, including Mondays & Tuesdays)
About Walthew House
At Walthew House, we are dedicated to building a more inclusive community where people who are Deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired can live independently and confidently. Through a wide range of services, activities, and events, we create opportunities for connection, wellbeing, and empowerment.
Do you want to play a key role in creating welcoming, accessible spaces that make a real difference every day?
About the role
We are looking for a friendly, proactive Activities and Events Worker to join our team. This is a varied and rewarding role at the heart of our organisation, combining front-of-house responsibilities with hands-on support for activities, events, and community engagement.
You will often be the first point of contact for service users, visitors, and partners, helping to ensure everyone feels welcome and supported. Alongside this, you’ll help deliver inclusive activities and events, support volunteers, and help us share our impact with the wider community.
Key responsibilities
- Act as a welcoming first point of contact, responding to enquiries in a helpful and timely way
- Provide information about Walthew House services and signpost people to appropriate support
- Support the planning and delivery of accessible activities and events
- Help ensure all sessions are inclusive for people with sensory loss
- Prepare rooms for activities and external hire, including refreshments where needed
- Work with volunteers, supporting recruitment, induction, and day-to-day engagement
- Contribute ideas for new activities that meet the needs of our community
- Support fundraising initiatives and promotional activities
- Assist with social media, website content, and printed communications
- Gather stories, feedback, and photos to demonstrate our impact
- Maintain accurate records and monitoring data
- Follow safeguarding, health & safety, and data protection policies at all times
- Act as a designated First Aider (training provided if needed)
About you
We’re looking for someone who is approachable, organised, and passionate about inclusion.
You will bring:
- Experience in a customer-facing, community, or support role
- Experience of supporting activities or events
- Strong communication skills and the ability to engage a wide range of people
- A commitment to inclusion, accessibility, and equality
- Good organisational skills and attention to detail
- Confidence using IT systems, including email, databases, and social media
You’ll also be:
- Friendly, empathetic, and welcoming
- Proactive and able to use your initiative
- Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team
- Flexible and willing to support occasional evening or weekend work (TOIL provided)
Experience of working with people with sensory loss, in a charity setting, or supporting fundraising activities would be an advantage, but is not essential.
What we offer
- A supportive and inclusive working environment
- The opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives
- Training in sensory awareness, accessibility, and safeguarding
- Flexible working arrangements within the role requirements
Additional information
- Location: Walthew House, Stockport, with some community-based work
- Contract: Permanent
- An enhanced DBS check is required
Interviews will be held on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd July
Registered Charity
6 - 10
Walthew House is a independent, specialist charity in Stockport, providing practical and emotional support to people with sight and/or hearing loss.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The National Youth Agency is looking for an Events Manager.
Events Manager
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time - 37 hours per week
Salary: £35,000 per annum (dependent on experience and qualifications)
Location: Home-based in England with occasional travel for meetings, workshops, and team activities. Head Office is in Leicester.
What we do
As the national body for youth work, the NYA has a dual function. We are the professional statutory and regulatory body (PSRB) responsible for qualifications, quality standards, and safeguarding for youth work and services in England. In line with our charity mission and aims, we also champion youth work through research, advocacy, campaigns, and programmes.
We work in partnership and believe in collaborative leadership, listening to youth workers and the youth work sector so that we can understand their needs and respond to the challenges they face. We are ambitious for youth work and for young people and integrate youth voice and influence across our work.
Role Purpose
To manage the planning, delivery and continuous improvement of our most high-profile annual events, including, but not limited to, UKYP, Peer Network Conference and a number of our annual policy events. The postholder will deliver multi-stakeholder events to high standards, on time and in budget, identifying opportunities to develop and improve events year on year.
The Event Manager plays a pivotal role in organising the events and activities that will provide young people, from across the United Kingdom, the opportunity to collaboratively engage in the democratic process through the UK Youth Parliament Programme.
This role involves working closely with the UK Youth Parliament team and our partners to support the effective organisation, communication and delivery of the UK wide events and activities.
The Event Manager will work closely with the Policy team, Communications team and Programme Management teams.
Key Responsibilities
As our Events Manager, you will:
- Plan, organisation and on-site delivery of regional and national events, including residential and single-day conferences, networking events and a House of Commons sitting.
- Project management of all event elements including budgets, logistics, health and safety, safeguarding, attendees, AV and delegate communications.
- Be responsible for selection and management of all event suppliers including accommodation, equipment, AV and logistics.
- Oversee venue and supplier management
- Act as first point of contact for all delegates where appropriate to the event
- First point of contact for internal and external stakeholders
- Work with our finance team to ensure event budgets are managed closely and events are delivered in budget
- Report for each event during event planning phase and developing comprehensive post-event reports which
- Any other reasonable duties to support the successful deliver of the events.
Why Work for NYA?
- NYA operates as a people-focused organisation, prioritising the well-being and needs of its employees.
- NYA offers an exceptional flexible working approach which encourages our team to balance professional responsibilities with their personal life.
- A remote based team, spread across England, fostering inclusivity and diverse talent. Despite geographical distances between team members, NYA maintains a highly motivated and connected team through the optimisation of digital tools.
- NYA is committed to supporting the continual personal and professional development of our team and helping them achieve their ambitions.
- We provide 25 days leave plus 8 days, life assurance scheme, 5% employer pension contribution and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme via Spectrum.life with unlimited specialist support available to all NYA employees.
Closing date: 23:59 Friday 26th June 2026.
N.B. We would encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we may close the vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications.
Interviews: Week commencing 13th July (subject to change)
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
The National Youth Agency is an equal opportunities employer.
At NYA our inclusive culture means that we embrace individual differences and understand that we need a diverse team to achieve our organisations mission.
We wish to recruit candidates from all backgrounds to ensure our team reflects the rich diversity of the communities we serve. We encourage applications from anyone regardless of disability, ethnicity, heritage, gender, sexuality, religion, socio-economic background and political beliefs but we particularly welcome applications from global majority candidates and those from other minoritised ethnic groups in the UK as they are currently underrepresented in our team.
Please note: We use AI detector software, so applications or CV’s with high levels of AI generated content may be disregarded. We understand that AI tools can offer support to candidates who have learning differences, which is why we will accept applications with some AI assistance.
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