Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal works in partnership with Aardman Animations to support Bristol Children’s Hospital and the region’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. We are seeking a first-class individual to join our talented fundraising team to help deliver an exciting programme of investment for one of the UK’s leading children’s hospital.

This position will be responsible for building upon the established pipeline of grant making trusts, writing compelling proposals, successfully researching, cultivating and stewarding donors, and growing The Grand Appeal’s support from trusts and foundations to facilitate future support.

We are looking for an individual who is a strong team player, has excellent written and verbal communication skills; a flair for building relationships, and has a passion for our cause to support sick babies, children and their families from across the South West and South Wales.

If this sounds like you, please get in touch!

CCS Adoption is a Bristol-based Voluntary Adoption Agency and registered charity. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted, we find permanent, loving homes for children who are waiting to be adopted. We also offer and fundraise for a range of post-adoption support services for adoptive families.

We are seeking to appoint an Experienced Fundraiser who will implement our fundraising strategy focusing primarily on Trusts and Foundations, Individual Giving and Legacies. The role will involve developing and executing campaigns in all three areas, aiming to raise around £150,000 per year. The successful candidate will be highly motivated and organised; an exceptional bid-writer with proven experience of securing funds from Trusts/Foundations. Experience of individual giving and/or legacy giving would be an advantage.

You will be joining CCS at a time of development and change. This important role offers an exciting opportunity to drive forward a new approach to fundraising that will prioritise return on investment, build excellent relationships with funders and supporters and deliver results for adopted children and families.

CCS offers a range of staff benefits including 25 annual leave days as standard (FT) plus additional leave days at Easter, Christmas and New Year. We prioritise the well-being of our staff, and offer a range of benefits including an employee assistance programme.

CCS welcomes applications from suitably qualified and experienced individuals regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or religious belief.

We are now seeking a Head of Charity to work with the Board to relaunch the charity and reopen our doors to clients. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, versatile individual who will help shape the charity, recruit and engage their own team of employees and volunteers.

Purpose of the Role

The successful management of all aspects of the activities of the charity following the strategic direction provided by the Board of Trustees:

• To ensure that clients are front and centre of everything the charity does
• To provide clear, motivational leadership and management to The Woodworks Project staff and volunteers
• To manage, develop and promote the work of The Woodworks Project
• To provide services that support clients to develop traditional craftsmanship and overcome social isolation through work
• To ensure the financial sustainability of the organisation through sound financial planning, risk and business management, income generation and creating efficiencies wherever possible
• To develop business and service plans to ensure financial sustainability
• To promote the work of The Woodworks Project and maximise its profile among the Third Sector in Bath.

Are you proactive, energetic, and organised? Do you have demonstrable experience of delivering events and managing projects against income and awareness generating targets?

If so, this exciting role within our client's Fundraising Team could be a great next career move!

Working closely with the wider Fundraising team, and their overarching Marketing and Events teams, you will promote and deliver a range of Fundraising events within local communities across the South West, raising vital funds in support of children and their families who receive care at Charlton Farm.

They value their staff and offer an excellent working environment with an enthusiastic and committed team. Benefits include generous annual leave, personal pension scheme, supportive staff policies and of course the knowledge that every day your work makes a real difference to short and precious lives.

About our client:

They are a registered charity dedicated to the provision of hospice care for children with life-limiting conditions and their families in the South West.

Location: Bristol - Charlton Farm

Contract Type: Fixed Term (maternity cover)

Hours: Part Time, 22.5 per week

Salary: £27,109 - £31,828 per annum (pro-rata), plus benefits

Closing date: Wednesday 21 April 2021

Estimated Interview date: Thursday 6th May 2021

Our client is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and all employees must obtain an enhanced DBS disclosure. They welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Charity Registration Number 1003314

You may have experience of the following: Events Fundraiser, Fundraising Officer, Fundraising and Events Coordinator, Event Fundraiser, Marketing Assistant, Community Fundraiser, Direct Marketing, Events Coordinator, Community Fundraising, Events Assistant, Third Sector, Charity, Not for Profit, Fundraiser, Fundraising Assistant, Marketing Executive, Marketing Officer, Sales Executive, Charity, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.

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Job Description

Reporting to the Supporter Services Team Leader, you will be part of a fast-paced & dedicated Supporter Services Team. Naturally, you will live and breathe exceptional customer service, hold pride in an extremely accurate database and support efficient income processing. Due to the nature of a seven-day visitor attraction, flexibility and ability to adapt to seasonal trends is key. You will be an enthusiastic team player and have the drive and passion to aid with the Charity’s 10-year vision, striving to achieve growth and retention targets to support with the conservation of Westonbirt Arboretum. The successful candidate will require…

Essential

- At least 2 years CRM experience

- At least 2 years’ experience in a Customer Service environment

- At least 2 years Payment Processing experience (Direct Debits, Cards & Cheques)

- A team player ethic - Microsoft Office Skills (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferable

- Practical experience with Raisers Edge CRM

- Practical experience with process procedures of BACS

- Intermediate Excel knowledge

- Understanding of GDPR

- Charity work background

Responsibilities

- Strive to achieve Supporter Engagement Team growth and retention targets.

- Be the first point of contact for supporter phone enquiries and emails, servicing queries using excellent customer service skills, encouraging supporters to engage in a lifelong supporter journey with the charity.

- Process new and renewed membership administration including data input, payment into Raisers Edge recording, including payment by Direct Debit, credit cards and cheques.

- Issuing and fulfilling membership cards, ensuring accuracy is maintained to the highest level at all times.

- Support the collection and accurate processing of BACS amendment reports, within the legal timeframe, supporting Direct Debit audit checks and claims when required.

- Process 10 Year, Lifetime, Staff and Complimentary memberships.

- Collect and process supporter donation income received via website, post and direct into the bank accurately into Raisers Edge, regularly running the Donor Acknowledgement process

- Ensure GDPR processes are consistently followed, recording relevant data accurately. - Maintain records such as change of details, amendments and cancellations.

- Be responsible for cash handling, banking administration, emptying donation boxes and processing the post; regularly liaising with the Finance Team.

- Represent the Supporter Services Team at the Welcome Building, supporting the volunteers with membership conversion, membership queries and training.

- Proactively support the wider Supporter Engagement Development Plan, striving to achieve Westonbirt’s 10-Year vision.

- Support the Forestry England Visitor Services Teams with membership enquiries, as well as forgotten and lost card issues. - Attend regular team, organisation and Forestry England meetings.

- Complete other tasks as directed by Supporter Services Team Leader as and when required.

Are you an ambitious, creative and influential practitioner who is passionate about supporting women to feel more confident and access volunteering and employment opportunities? The Pause Bristol Peer Support project recruits women who have completed the Pause programme to volunteer by supporting other Pause women.

Pause is a national independent organisation seeking to prevent the damaging consequences of thousands more children being taken into care each year by working with women who have experienced, or are at risk of, repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care. The programme gives women the chance to pause and take control over their lives, breaking a destructive cycle that causes both them and their children deep trauma, as well as reducing huge costs to society and the taxpayer.

Peer Support Project Role

As a Pause Peer Support Coordinator you will be responsible for managing the peer support element of the work, which we are running as part of Pause Bristol. The aim of the work is to continue to develop the peer support programme for women who have completed Pause (Next Steps women) and run a weekly group for all Pause women. You will be responsible for ensuring that up to date information regarding effective peer support informs the service. You will also be responsible for recruitment, training, peer supervision and recording feedback and outcomes.

You will be managed by the Pause Manager who will support you to plan and deliver the work. You will be a big part of a small team, where everyone takes a flexible and collaborative approach to work, and is committed to improving outcomes for vulnerable and marginalised groups.

One25 is a Bristol charity for women moving from crisis and trauma towards independence in the community.

It is an Occupational Requirement that applications for this post are open to women only, as permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1, of the Equality Act 2010. Enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are underrepresented in our workforce.

Benefits: Generous leave (33 days including bank holidays pro rata) plus up to 13 additional days' time off in lieu; flexible working hours; and great job satisfaction.

Hours: 2 days a week

Salary: Pro-Rata £10,204  (£25,511 FTE)

Contract: 12 months

Applications by: 9.00 am 19 April 2021

Anticipated Interview date: 4 May 2021

Expected start date: End May 2021

Hospitals’ charity Above & Beyond needs an enthusiastic, ambitious and motivated fundraiser to help grow our income at an exciting stage in the charity’s development.

This is a great opportunity to join an established NHS charity and gain significant experience of corporate fundraising. The successful candidate will have a sales or fundraising background with a track record of meeting and exceeding targets. Key to your role is harnessing the passion of corporates to motivate and inspire them to maximise their support.  You will recruit new corporates, build relationships and deliver excellent stewardship to engender long term and sustainable support.

Above & Beyond fundraises for Bristol’s city centre hospitals.  We have a passion for improving patient experience and enhancing healthcare in Bristol and the South West and belief in the cause will be fundamental to your work. We are currently home based but will be looking to return to office workng later in the year, at our Bristol city centre office.

Bath City Farm is seeking a creative and energetic communications professional to build the Farm’s brand, public image, and external relationships with a wide range of businesses, groups, and individuals across Bath.  The successful candidate will lead on raising awareness and growing our supporter base, play a key role in identifying promotional opportunities and activities to extend the Farm’s reach, and research, design and implement new income-generating ideas, products, and services.  In an organisation that is growing on limited resources, the commercial impact of this role is a key consideration, and the post holder will have agreed financial targets to meet to help ensure the Farm’s financial sustainability.

Are you a passionate communications and marketing expert who wants to make a real difference to the lives of children and adults with ME/CFS who experience years, even decades, in lockdown? You will play a vital role in promoting the charity and its work, and engaging with the M.E. community to ensure they can access the support and services they need; and that those around have a better understanding of M.E. and its impact, including professionals, policy-makers and the public. If you are a highly motivated, creative and committed person who can help increase awareness and understanding of ME/CFS through a wide range of communications and marketing channels we would love to hear from you.

Could you help us recruit 20,000 for the world’s largest DNA project for people with ME/CFS and ensure active engagement and involvement from the ME/CFS community throughout this four-year project? You will need communications and marketing experience and be an exceptional communicator. Working alongside people with ME to shape what we do and how we do it, your role will include managing the research website and all our social media channels. You will also work closely with our digital marketing and PR agencies.

Do you have a good understanding of child development and the needs of homeless families and children plus proven experience of supporting parents and children with complex needs? Then join Shelter as a Children & Families Support Worker and you could soon be playing a vital role aimed at minimising the impact of bad housing, homelessness and exclusion in the Bristol area.

About Shelter
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team
Our thriving Hub in Bristol is a place where people can access a range of advice and support provision. Integrated with our services we also undertake community organising; challenging the systemic barriers preventing access to housing and a home. The aim is to empower clients to make decisions and take action for themselves by providing advice, referrals and signposting, advocacy and practical support. There are currently around 16 people working in the Hub across services that include Legal, Advice Support DIY Skills Advice and volunteers. You could soon be joining them.

About the role
As a Support Worker we’ll rely on you to deliver professional, impartial, pragmatic and outcome focused support for a caseload of families. You’ll also act as a key worker and help families either resettle or prevent homelessness. Your primary focus will be on households where some tailored interventions are required around the needs of the children in order to stabilise their housing situation and enable the family to thrive. Accordingly, you’ll need to provide intensive, tailored support as part of a whole family approach in a 1-2-1 setting and via group work. On any given day you could be advising on techniques and approaches to ease pressures on vulnerable families or advocating on behalf of a family so that they’re able to access support that meets their needs. Along the way, you’ll need to regularly visits clients’ homes and schools across the city and liaise with other agencies in the community in order to provide a co-ordinated service.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you
We believe that people with lived experience are often best placed to use this to shape the way they work with the people who use our services. Therefore, we would specifically like to hear from people with personal experience of homelessness. If you are also familiar with housing, homelessness and ASB legislation and welfare benefits that affect families, that would be great, but we are more interested in your ability to work with families and children, who are sometimes in great distress due to their circumstances. You’ll need to be able to demonstrate that you have worked within, or understand, a safeguarding framework, that you can balance competing priorities and that you are proactive in the way that you work.

You’ll need to be able to use a range of IT tools to carry out your work, including case management systems, Microsoft Office applications, internet and email etc., and be able to type. You must also possess a valid driving licence and be willing to use your vehicle for work purposes, for which an essential car allowance will be paid.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Please note that due to the nature of the work, this post is exempt from the provisions of Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 by virtue of The Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exemptions) Order 1975.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Send a Cow is a growing and dynamic international development charity providing training, and ongoing support to smallholder farmers in Africa. We give poor families and communities the hope and the means to secure their own futures from the land, in line with our vision of a confident and thriving rural Africa.

Over the last 30 years we have helped more than 2 million people develop the confidence to see what they have, use their land creatively and establish a new and sustainable economic trajectory for themselves, their families and their communities. This African-centred approach is proving effective and attracting the attention of funders nationally and globally. That’s why we believe we can do more. To that end, we have just started developing an ambitious 10 year strategy that will run from 2020 – 2030 and significantly increase the scale and impact of our work.

To support this work, we’re looking an experienced and motivated Digital Marketing Manager to implement, monitor and develop our digital marketing strategy, leading on organisational digital marketing for growth across all UK teams.

The post holder will look for new digital fundraising opportunities to promote the Send a Cow brand, recruit new supporters (individuals, communities and corporates), engage and delight current supporters, test new channels and products and be a digital innovator for the organisation. This is a diverse, hands on role that requires technical knowledge to manage digital marketing channels in house and with some agency support. Previous experience of developing successful digital marketing growth strategy and managing multi-channel marketing campaigns is also essential.

Does this sound like you? If so, we would love to hear from you. To apply, please go to our website. Applicants will need to complete an application form. CVs will not be accepted. 

An exciting new role reporting to the Chief Executive that has been created to lead on partnerships and funding needed to deliver MRF’s work to support the world’s first global roadmap to defeat meningitis agreed by the World Health Assembly in November 2020.

The successful candidate will personally lead on generating new income from high value corporate partners, philanthropists, trusts and foundations whilst also overseeing teams that deliver events, community and mid value corporate income. The remit of the role covers all income generation and fundraising for the charity

Due to internal progression, our Local & Community Empowerment team are seeking to recruit a Project Worker to support a range of community groups, local authorities, town and parish councils, and voluntary sector organisations to take action on energy.

This is a job for an individual with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, and a passion for inclusive community-based action.