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Our challenge
The Community Fundraising Team is an integral part of The Charity Fundraising Portfolio and the team consists of Community Fundraisers based across the UK. Our role is to provide fundraising advice & support to our Supporter Groups, Community Organisations, Regional Corporates, Volunteers & Events.
How can you help?
We are recruiting a team of Charity Ambassadors to help develop engagement across each Region, to maximise opportunities to raise funds and increase support from the Community. You will be actively involved with The Charity on the ground and play a key role working alongside the Regional Community Fundraisers, as and when required:
· Identifying various opportunities in your local area to raise awareness of The Charity & our wide range of Fundraising Campaigns. This could anything from contacting your local supermarket’s ‘Community Champion’ and organising an information stand and bucket collection or supporting a Supporter Group meet up in your area.
· Representing The Charity in your area, by undertaking presentations & cheque collections at schools, local companies & community groups
· Helping us to recruit new fundraisers and supporting those who are already signed up for a campaign, in your area. For example, attending a local Twilight Walk or promoting The Big Bake to local companies.
What impact will you have?
By amplifying The Charity's voice in your local area, you'll help increase the impact of fundraising campaigns & help grow funds and support us in accelerating a cure for everyone affected by a brain tumour diagnosis.
We’re looking for people who are:
· Passionate about the Charity and our vision
· Flexible and willing to get involved as and when opportunities arise
· Confident and comfortable in undertaking presentations to a wide range of audiences
· Skilled at spotting new opportunities to raise awareness and funds
· Friendly, approachable and able to communicate at all levels
· A team player, who is also able to work on their own initiative
We particularly encourage applications from those who are significantly underrepresented in our sector, including individuals from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities.
What can you gain from volunteering?
· You’ll join a friendly, passionate team and develop an understanding of how this team at The Charity operates.
· The opportunity to network with other volunteers and play a key role in the brain tumour community.
· You’ll have the opportunity to utilise your existing skills, while developing and learning new ones to take forward into the future
Time commitment
Initially, we envisage a minimum of 2 or 3 days per month, depending on the regional focus, and this will also be guided by whether you are researching new awareness raising opportunities in your area, or setting up a school presentation for example. Flexibility if a key part of the role as we are often presented with exciting opportunities to raise awareness or funds, at short notice.
Practical considerations
You will receive training from the Community Fundraising Team and ongoing direction from a Regional Community Fundraiser, who will be your key contact. We carry out reference checks for all individuals who will be volunteering with us on a regular basis. Volunteers will be required to complete some internal data protection and disclosure documentation before commencing the role. Volunteers must be over 18. We encourage volunteers to claim for any reasonable expenses that are incurred in the course of their volunteering with the Charity.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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International Aid for the Protection & Welfare of Animals (IAPWA) is a UK-registered animal welfare charity dedicated to creating a better future for animals in need.
Our first project, established in 2009, is based in Borneo where we provide a lifeline to thousands of dogs and cats every year in need of veterinary care and support. Our companion animal projects and support programmes for other species have since developed in other parts of the world, including Romania, Penang Island, the Philippines, and Tanzania.
The Role
IAPWA is seeking a Paid Advertising Specialist (Volunteer) to significantly grow our digital platforms and fundraising income using Meta Advertising (Facebook and Instagram) and the Google Ad Grant.
This important volunteer role will involve creating, monitoring, and optimising our paid advertisements to drive impactful results for our small charity, including:
- Increasing donations from our individual appeals to raise more funds to support our projects and patients
- Increasing the membership of our Facebook groups to grow our online communities
- Increasing signatures for our petitions to drive impactful change for animals and grow our supporter database
You will be provided with a small, but workable budget and will work closely with senior team members. Whilst there are no set hours for this role, we expect the volunteer to be able to contribute their time flexibly in order to monitor the adverts and optimise them as needed to drive the best results.
Please note: we do not have a paid advertising specialist within the team, so please only apply if you can bring this valuable experience to IAPWA. Thank you.
To apply, please send over a copy of your CV and a short paragraph about why you'd like to join the IAPWA team and what you feel you could bring to this volunteer role.
Registered Charity
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IAPWA (International Aid for the Protection & Welfare of Animals) is a UK registered charity dedicated to creating a better future for animals in need
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Our trustees play a vital role in making sure that Confident Conversations achieves its core purpose: to help parents in hospital become partners in their child’s care. Trustees oversee the overall management and administration of the charity. They also ensure that Confident Conversations has a clear strategy and that our work and goals are in line with our vision. Just as importantly, they support and challenge the executive team to enable Confident Conversations to grow and thrive and so support more parents and carers in hospital.
Duties
This is currently a virtual role. All meetings are held virtually (online). Trustees need access to a computer, smartphone or tablet with internet access.
- Support and provide advice on Confident Conversation’s purpose, vision, goals and activities.
- Approve operational strategies and policies, and monitor and evaluate their implementation.
- Oversee Confident Conversation’s financial plans and budgets and monitor and evaluate progress; and review and approve Confident Conversations’s financial statements.
- Ensure the effective and efficient administration of the organisation.
- Ensure that key risks are being identified, monitored and controlled effectively.
- Provide support and challenge to Confident Conversations’s Director in the exercise of their delegated authority and affairs.
- Keep abreast of changes in Confident Conversations’s operating environment.
- Contribute to regular reviews of Confident Conversations’s own governance. Attend Board meetings, adequately prepared to contribute to discussions.
- Use independent judgement, acting legally and in good faith to promote and protect Confident Conversations’s interests, to the exclusion of their own personal and/or any third party interests.
- Contribute to the broader promotion of Confident Conversations’s objects, aims and reputation by applying your skills, expertise, knowledge and contacts.
What we are looking for
We are looking for someone willing to bring energy, enthusiasm and commitment to the role of trustee, and who will broaden the diversity of thinking and experience on our Board. You do not need previous experience of being a trustee – we will provide a full induction and training.
However, you should have experience of advocating for a patient in hospital who cannot effectively advocate for themselves. This includes parents and carers with lived experience of advocating for their child, and medical professionals (doctors, nurses, other medical specialists) who work in paediatrics.
Legally, trustees must be at least 16 years old. We do not accept applications from anyone who is currently disqualified from acting as a charity trustee.
Personal skills and qualities
- Willingness and ability to understand and accept their responsibilities and liabilities as trustees and to act in the best interests of the organisation.
- Ability to think creatively and strategically, exercise good, independent judgement and work effectively as a board member.
- Effective communication skills and willingness to participate actively in discussion.
- A strong personal commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.
- Enthusiasm for our vision and mission.
- Willingness to lead according to our values. All our work, including our interactions with each other, stakeholders and those we support, is guided by the following principles:
- Kindness in our approach to our work and ourselves.
- Differences are our strength. Difference of experience and thought is vital to our success.
- Confidence in engaging with, and challenging, our work at all levels. We must be welcoming and supportive to ensure this happens.
- Commitment to Nolan’s seven principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
Terms of appointment
Board members have a collective responsibility. This means that trustees always act as a group and not as individuals.
Terms of office
- Trustees are appointed for a three year term of office.
- This is a voluntary position, but reasonable expenses are reimbursed.
Time commitment
- Attending four one-hour Board meetings annually. Meetings are currently held virtually.
- Reading papers and preparing for Board meetings. Papers are circulated at least one week before every meeting. They are usually around two pages of A4 per paper, and meetings have, on average, four papers.
- There may be times when the trustees will need to be actively involved beyond Board meetings. This can involve scrutinising papers circulated by email, leading discussions, focusing on key issues, providing advice and guidance on new initiatives, presenting externally, or other issues in which the trustee has special expertise.
To apply, please email Lydia Strachan, Director, attaching your CV and a paragraph on why you feel you are suited to the role.
This role is advertised as part of TPP's Free Giving Back Services. This volunteer advertisement copy has been supplied to TPP and applicants apply direct to the organisation. Please contact the organisation directly if you have any questions about this volunteer role.
