Social media volunteer roles in market harborough, england
We’re looking for a volunteer fundraiser who is passionate about our cause and eager to help us develop creative strategies to engage the community and secure financial support for our projects. You'll take the lead on writing grant applications, membership campaigns, and donation drives.
Key information
Contract: Voluntary
Hours: Two to seven hours per week (part-time, flexible)
Location: Remote, with the option to work from our office: Two Queens, 2 Queen Street, Leicester LE1 1QW
Applications closing date: Thursday 29 May, 4pm
Any questions? If you have any questions please email info (at) leicester.news
We particularly encourage applications from women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and people from working-class backgrounds.
Role responsibilities
- Researching and submitting grant applications to secure funding for projects and salaries.
- Establishing and maintaining strong connections with current and potential funders to foster ongoing support and collaboration.
- Promoting and selling consultancy services to potential clients.
- Collaborating with the EMSM team to market and sell advertising space to local businesses and organisations.
- Managing daily operations of the online shop, including inventory management, customer service, and sales strategies.
- Working alongside the community lead to encourage new memberships and engage current members.
- Identifying and reaching out to high net worth individuals to secure significant donations.
About you
Essential
- Proven track record of successful fundraising campaigns.
- Experience in writing compelling proposals and grant applications.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage with donors and stakeholders.
- Understanding of the nonprofit sector and its challenges.
Desirable
- Experience in sales techniques and strategies to drive fundraising efforts.
- Experience in major gift fundraising and cultivating relationships with high net worth individuals.
- Experience in a newsroom or journalistic environment.
- Experience in or enthusiasm for democratic and inclusive ways of working.
What we offer
Although you'll join us as a volunteer, there are many benefits to being part of our team:
- Remote working
- Office space
- Mentorship
- Training opportunities
- Free resources and tools
- Team socials
- Worker membership
… and more!
About the Leicester Gazette
The Leicester Gazette is a local, independent newspaper, free to access for all online and soon in print.
We are a member-funded, community-owned news outlet about Leicestershire. We're building on a movement of co-operative media pioneered by West Highlands Free Press, the Bristol Cable, Norwich Radical, Manchester Meteor, the Ferret, and Exeter Observer.
Our mission is to hold those in power accountable, push for change, and amplify the voices of marginalised communities while finding real solutions to the challenges we face.
We publish investigations, news features and human interest stories that go beyond the headlines. Our journalism is fact-based and rigorous, and we prize good writing over clickbait and sensationalism.
Local journalism has been devastated in recent years, with thousands of reporters laid off and newsrooms being stripped of their worth, leaving communities plagued by a jungle of ads and stories that have nothing to do with local issues. The Leicester Gazette is our revolution against a broken industry.
Anti-oppression and liberation
We are committed to creating a progressive, supportive workplace and community. We’d like the way we work to actively challenge the power structures that reproduce inequality and injustice, and consciously choose to work in ways that are liberatory, or anti-oppressive.
We embrace and value the lived experiences of women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and people from working-class backgrounds.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Trustees
Term: Trustees will be appointed for a four year term and can serve consecutive terms.
Remuneration: Currently, the role of Trustee is not accompanied by any financial remuneration, although reasonable expenses may be claimed.
Attendance: We expect Trustees to be able to attend all board meetings, our annual strategic away day and engage with Agenda Alliance in other ways. Board meetings are typically held online, with one meeting held in person per year. There is often the option to join a board meeting from the Agenda office (London E2) if preferred.
About Us:
We advocate and campaign for systems and services to respond appropriately to women and girls with unmet needs.
We want public services to respond better to the distinct and multiple unmet needs of women and girls, including appropriately responding to gender, age, race and trauma.
For the whole system to respond better, we stand in solidarity with the voluntary sector and advocate for them to be empowered.
Our values are our guiding principles for our work to deliver our mission. It is who we are and how we behave. We promise to be: Intersectional, Courageous, Credible, Clear and Collaborative.
About the role:
- To play an active role in the Agenda Alliance Board to ensure the organisation delivers on its mission and vision and is effectively governed.
- We want Trustees to join us in being member-led, women and girls-led and anti-oppressive.
- Our Trustees help shape the strategic direction of Agenda Alliance and provide leadership to ensure that we have the maximum impact for women and girls.
- We are looking for up to 3 Trustees to join our Board who match our ambition and are excited to support Agenda Alliance, as we solidify our position within the sector and grow our reach.
Responsibilities include:
- Help shape the strategic direction and provide leadership to Agenda ensuring that we have maximum impact for women and girls
- Fulfil all legal duties and responsibilities of a trustee and ensure sound governance and financial health of Agenda
- Ensure that Agenda operates within its charitable objectives and that decisions taken are in the best interests of women and girls at risk
- Establish and build a strong, effective, open and supportive relationship with the Chief Executive and other staff
- Act as an ambassador for the charity
- Support funding approaches to gain additional funds
About you:
We are seeking Trustees with skills and experience in the following areas, which we have identified as gaps on our Board:
- Income generation and fundraising, particularly for corporates and trusts and foundations
- Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
- Impact measurement
- Finance
- HR
- We are also interested in hearing from individuals with experience in education, particularly school exclusions as this is a key area of our work.
Centring lived experience is important for everything Agenda does, and we are proud to have women with Lived Experience of the areas we work in our board. If you have Lived Experience of any of the areas agenda works on, we would particularly welcome your application.
Closing date: midnight on Monday 12th May.
Interested?
Please scroll down to the bottom of the advert to download the job pack, here you will find full information about the position.
When applying through the job board, you will need to send us your CV and cover letter of no more than two pages answering the questions below. In your cover letter, please state where you saw the role advertised.
To apply, please send us [Agenda Alliance] your CV, and a cover letter of no more than two pages answering the questions below by midnight on Monday 12th May.
In your cover letter, please state where you saw the role advertised. We can offer alternative ways to apply, such as a video application, rather than a cover letter. Please email for further information if you would like to do so.
We will shortlist by 25 May and first round interviews will be held in the beginning of June. If you are shortlisted following your first interview, there will be a second round in mid-June, when you will discuss the role and your approach with one or two experts by experience who we work with. Please let us know in your cover letter if there are any dates/times in June that you are unavailable.
Cover letter questions:
- Why do you want to be a Trustee
- Why do you want to be on the Agenda Alliance Board?
- What will you get out of being on our Board?
- Describe a time when you've called out inequality/injustice, or when you've had the opportunity to speak truth to power.
Equal opportunities
Agenda Alliance selects all candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, experience and ability to do the role advertised. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability (physical or learning), gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
We will provide reasonable support to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. Please contact us to identify any additional support that you may require to enable you to make an application.
Because our work is about centring women and girls’ experiences, and our organisation is led by and for women and girls, this post is open to women only (exempt under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, part 1). When Agenda refers to women and girls, we mean cisgender, intersex, and transgender women and girls, alongside nonbinary people who experience misogyny.
No agencies please.
Interested?
If you would like to apply for this position, please click the apply button and follow the job board procedure. You will need to send us your CV and cover letter of no more than two pages answering the cover letter questions. In your cover letter, please state where you saw the role advertised.
Thank you!
Are you passionate about health and wellbeing and want to make a difference in the local community? We are looking for a dedicated individual to join our team of trustees and help shape the future of physical activity and sport in Northamptonshire
We would particularly welcome applicants with experience of finance or accountancy
Northamptonshire Sport recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination.
We want to have a diverse board, reflective of the local community, with a mix of skills, experience and competencies that best serves our aspirations.
We would welcome applications from people from black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities who are under-represented on our board
We are keen to receive applications from disabled people with a wide range of lived experiences including: learning difficulties, mental health conditions, neuro-diversity, deafness, hearing impairments, visual impairments, physical impairments and long-term health conditions.
If you are excited by the prospect of using your skills and experience to make a difference in physical activity and sport in Northamptonshire as one of our Trustees, we would love to hear from you.
Time Commitment
Our trustees meets formally at least six times per year. There is a further expectation that trustees will contribute to specific project groups as they arise from time to time, along with being invited to a number of events throughout the year.
Board meetings :
- 21st May 2025 (5.30-7pm)
- 15th Jul 2025 (5.30-7pm)
- 16th Sep 2025 (5.30-7pm)
- 18th Nov 2025 (5.30-7pm)
- 20th Jan 2026 (5.30-7pm)
- 17th Mar 2026 (5.30-7pm)
Closing Date for Applications 18th May 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
We’re looking for a new fundraising volunteer and/or director! Are you passionate about securing funds for grassroot organisations?
This opportunity involves overseeing Fuel Poverty Action’s fundraising plans and strategy, reaching out to donors and promoting our vital campaigns through grant bids to help end fuel poverty in the UK.
This role would require an average of 16-20 hrs per month and can be done remotely. We are also open to you joining FPA’s board of directors, subject to capacity and experience.
This offers a chance to directly contribute to tackling fuel poverty and ensuring access to affordable energy for all whilst strategizing and learning alongside great activists. If you're eager to contribute, we’d love to hear from you!
Tasks:
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Organise and manage our fundraising planning and pipeline
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Reach out to potential donors and help build relationships
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Lead on grant applications
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Work closely with the team to develop new fundraising strategies
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Contribute ideas and experience to FPA campaigns
Closing date for applications: April 20th 2025
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.