JOB TITLE: Trusts and Grants Fundraiser
SALARY: £35,447 per annum
HOURS: Full-time - 36 hours per week
LOCATION: Sydenham Site, 51-59 Lawrie Park Road, London SE26 6DZ
with occasional work at the Orpington site, Tregony Road BR6 9XA
Please note that this position includes occasional evening and weekend working.
About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to work at a leading Hospice who aspires to a world in which all dying people and those close to them have access to care and support, whenever and wherever they need it. St Christopher’s Hospice was founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders, and became the first hospice of the modern hospice movement. We provide invaluable care and support to over 7,500 people across the five London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.
The work of the hospice extends beyond care to the local community. St Christopher’s Professional Learning offer continues to advance national and global leadership in palliative care through a range of impactful initiatives. Other programmes include supporting and shaping palliative care leaders of the future.
The fundraising team generates more than £10m every year, around half of which comes through gifts left to the charity as legacies. We organise a programme of appeals, campaigns and events, administer our own lottery, make applications to charitable foundations, engage with local business and support individuals who give in-memory of a loved one. This is delivered by a strong employed fundraising team, supported by a number of wonderful volunteers.
Your new role
We are looking for an experienced Trusts and Grants Fundraiser to join our friendly and dedicated team.
If you are detail oriented, highly organised, and able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines with confidence — and if you’re motivated by making a real difference to end of life care for patients across five London boroughs and beyond — this could be the perfect role for you.
In this hands-on position, you will have the opportunity to shape and grow our income from trusts, foundations and charitable funders. You will be responsible for researching, writing and submitting high quality funding applications, nurturing relationships with existing supporters, identifying new funding opportunities, and ensuring that all communications reflect our mission and impact.
About you:
We’re looking for someone who:
- Wants a fulfilling role where their work genuinely makes a difference.
- Enjoys a challenge, is proactive in solving problems, and is self motivated.
- Values being part of a supportive team working together towards a shared purpose.
If this sounds like you – we’d love to hear from you.
What you will get in return is a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference on a local, national and global scale. In addition, you will benefit from access to excellent training and development opportunities, a number of health and wellbeing schemes, a competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan. You will also have access to free on street parking nearby and an onsite staff canteen at our Sydenham site.
What you need to do now if you have experience in driving significant income through trusts and grants and you have initiative, enthusiasm and passion for the work of a hospice, please do apply for this great role.
How to apply:
- Please review the Job Description and Person Specification Criteria
- Please address the criteria in the person specification form. This information will be used to select candidates for interview
- Click the ‘Apply Online’ button
To find out more about St Christopher’s Hospice please have a look at our website.
Closing Date: 22nd September 2026
Interview Date: 30th September 2026
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Are you passionate about creating lasting change in communities?
We are seeking an inspiring, compassionate and strategic leader to become our next Chief Executive Officer.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a well-established charity that is committed to improving lives, empowering communities and creating opportunities for people to thrive. As our CEO, you will work alongside a dedicated Board of Trustees, staff, volunteers, partners and local communities to shape the future of the organisation, ensuring we continue to deliver meaningful impact while remaining financially sustainable and true to our values.
We're looking for someone who believes in the power of communities, values collaboration and inclusion, and can inspire others to help us achieve our purpose.
About the Role
As Chief Executive Officer, you will provide visionary leadership and be responsible for the overall strategic direction, governance and operational management of the charity.
You will:
- Lead the delivery of our vision, purpose and values, ensuring everything we do reflects our commitment to the communities we serve.
- Develop and deliver an ambitious strategy that responds to local need while building a sustainable future for the charity.
- Champion community voice and lived experience, ensuring the people we support are at the heart of decision-making.
- Inspire, support and develop our staff and volunteers, creating an inclusive, positive and empowering culture.
- Build trusted relationships with funders, commissioners, partners and local stakeholders, acting as an ambassador for the charity.
- Lead fundraising and income generation, securing grants, contracts and new opportunities that enable our work to grow and flourish.
- Ensure excellent governance, financial stewardship, risk management and compliance with charity law and regulatory requirements.
- Provide strategic leadership for safeguarding, ensuring robust policies, procedures, training, and reporting arrangements are in place and that the organisation maintains a strong culture of safeguarding and wellbeing.
- Oversee the effective delivery and evaluation of our programmes, ensuring we continue to demonstrate meaningful outcomes and impact.
- Work closely with the Board of Trustees to support good governance, strategic planning and organisational development.
- Providing appropriate oversight of CLP’s trading subsidiary, CLP Homes, ensuring effective governance, financial management and alignment with the charity’s objectives.
About You
You will be an experienced and values-led leader with a genuine commitment to social justice, equality and community development.
You will bring:
- Experience of leading within the charity, voluntary, community or social enterprise sector (or significant transferable experience with a strong commitment to the sector).
- A successful track record of strategic leadership and organisational development.
- Experience of securing income through grants, contracts, fundraising or partnership development.
- Strong people leadership skills with the ability to motivate, support and develop teams.
- An understanding of charity governance, safeguarding, risk management and regulatory compliance.
- Sound financial awareness and experience of budget oversight.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to represent the charity externally.
- The ability to balance strategic thinking with a practical, hands-on approach.
- A collaborative leadership style that empowers others and promotes inclusion, innovation and continuous learning.
Why Join Us?
This is more than a leadership role—it's an opportunity to make a lasting difference.
You'll lead a passionate team that believes in the power of people and communities. Together, you'll help shape services that respond to local need, influence positive change and create opportunities for individuals and families to reach their full potential.
If you are motivated by purpose, inspired by partnership working and excited by the opportunity to lead a charity with ambition, we'd love to hear from you.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
CLP is a small but ambitious charity based in the heart of Eastwood in Rotherham. Our Vision: A thriving local community where people are happy, saf
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The Vacancy
This exciting role combines supporting the management of Methodist historic places of worship and other spaces across Britain with interpretation and audience development. The Methodist Heritage Officer will advocate for Methodist Heritage, contribute to delivering the Methodist Heritage Strategy 2026-2032 and work towards our historic spaces being sustainable, welcoming and engaging. For example, you will aim to develop and promote a compelling and integrated missional visitor offer with our museums, and resource the pilgrimage opportunities offered by our historic chapels.
About You
We are seeking an experienced Christian heritage professional, who is passionate about the development of Methodist Heritage and its use as a tool to deliver contemporary Christian mission. You will work with our four nationally accredited museums, but also with our many other heritage sites and historic chapels. Working with the expert volunteers in the Methodist Heritage Committee and teams at our heritage sites, as well as Connexional (national) staff team colleagues in archives, property and communications, for example, you will be someone who can ensure coordinated best practice for the Church in heritage management in relation to historic properties, advise on collection care and develop engaging interpretation and outreach.
This role has an occupational requirement to be a practicing Christian in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.
We are also open to considering remote/homeworking arrangements (salary may vary accordingly).
If you meet most of the requirements, we encourage you to apply; transferable skills and experience will also be taken into consideration.
Disclosure and Barring Service
An enhanced DBS disclosure is required for this position. The Methodist Church will cover the associated costs.
Informal Enquiries
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Jo Hibbard, Director of Heritage & Art .
For questions or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please email HR Team.
Key Dates
Closing Date for Applications: 1 October 2026
Interviews (on-site in London): 12 October 2026
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert early if sufficient applications are received.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God's love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission.
