Head of Community and Events

The Principle Trust Children's Charity is Yorkshire's leading respite charity, providing free week-long breaks for children facing adversity. They believe every child deserves the opportunity to experience the joy of childhood, regardless of the challenges they face.

Founded by Mike Davies MBE in 2011, the charity has grown significantly and has now supported more than 6,000 children through breaks across its eight holiday homes in Blackpool, the Lake District and Filey.

“A respite break is far more than just a holiday. It provides families with the opportunity to rest, reconnect and create positive memories together, helping improve wellbeing, strengthen family relationships and offer hope during incredibly difficult times.”

It is a particularly exciting time for The Principle Trust. With the appointment of its first Chief Executive Officer, the charity is entering a new chapter of growth and ambition. The new CEO previously held the Head of Community and Events role, bringing first-hand understanding of the position, its potential and the opportunities ahead.

The Role

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, you will lead the development and growth of community fundraising across Yorkshire, building meaningful relationships and unlocking new opportunities to generate sustainable income.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys being creative, developing new partnerships and turning ideas into tangible results. You will have the freedom to shape and deliver a community fundraising strategy, working with a wide range of organisations, including golf clubs, Rotary, Round Table, Lions, Freemasons, schools and other community groups.

Alongside this, you will provide strategic oversight of the charity's events programme, line manage the Events Manager and work closely with the CEO to develop exciting fundraising opportunities and flagship events.

The main responsibilities will include:

• Developing and delivering a community fundraising strategy, building new relationships and growing income across Yorkshire.
• Establishing and nurturing partnerships with community organisations, schools and supporters.
• Providing strategic oversight of the events programme, supporting the Events Manager and developing flagship events and sponsorship opportunities.
• Working with the CEO and wider team to set, monitor and achieve income targets, manage budgets and maximise fundraising performance.

The Person

We are looking for someone who is passionate about building relationships, engaging with communities and developing opportunities to drive income. You will be a confident and engaging communicator, with the ability to inspire others and develop meaningful partnerships.

Ideally, you will have experience in community fundraising, partnership development or events, with a proven ability to generate income and achieve targets. However, we are equally interested in people who can demonstrate strong relationship management, business development or commercial skills and are excited about applying these within a charity environment.

This role would particularly suit someone already working in a community fundraising position who has experience of managing a team and is ready for their next challenge, or someone looking to take that first step into management. You don't necessarily need to have held a formal management position before, but you should be able to demonstrate leadership potential, the confidence to take responsibility and an enthusiasm for supporting and developing others.

You will have experience of working to fundraising or income-generation targets and, ideally, setting them too. You will be proactive, creative and commercially minded, with the ability to spot opportunities, take initiative and turn ideas into results.

Above all, you will share the charity's passion for improving the lives of children and families and be excited by the opportunity to help a growing charity achieve even more.

Please note that the role involves regular travel across Yorkshire, so a full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle for business use are essential. Some evening and weekend work will be required for events.

Why The Principle Trust?

You will be joining a small but ambitious charity with a big heart, where relationships really matter and every successful partnership, fundraising initiative and event contributes towards giving more children and families the chance to make memories that last.

With exciting plans for growth, new opportunities to develop and the chance to shape a key area of the charity's work, this is career- defining role.

Please note: If you would like to submit an application or express your interest in an alternative format such as audio or video upload, or require any adaptations for your initial engagement with us, please contact either Leanne or Jen who will be happy to advise on this.

Please also be aware that we use anonymous recruitment methods when submitting shortlists for all our roles and we only work with organisations that are happy to engage with us in this way.

Charity Horizons is an equal opportunities employer and as such actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from all suitable candidates irrespective of age, disability, hidden disability, race or national origin, religion or belief, gender, gender expression, political view, sexual orientation, medical condition and pregnancy.