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Goal-Focused Befriending Coordinator
Organisation: Age UK Westminster
Location: Beethoven Centre, Third Avenue, London W10 4JL, with community and home visits across the City of Westminster
Hours: 21 hours per week (3 days, flexible)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £27,500 FTE per annum (pro rata)
Benefits: 7% contributory pension, basic health plan and Blue Light Discount Card
About the Role
Age UK Westminster is looking for a compassionate, organised and motivated Goal-Focused Befriending Coordinator to lead our structured befriending service for older residents experiencing loneliness, social isolation and reduced wellbeing.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference by supporting older people to identify personal goals, build confidence, strengthen social connections and improve their overall wellbeing. Using a strengths-based and person-centred approach, you will work alongside residents, volunteers and partner organisations to help people achieve greater independence and community engagement.
The role is based across our office, residents' homes and community settings throughout Westminster and combines direct client support, volunteer coordination, partnership working, safeguarding and service development.
What You'll Be Doing
As the Goal-Focused Befriending Coordinator, you will:
- Manage a caseload of older residents receiving structured, goal-focused befriending support.
- Complete assessments, support plans, reviews and outcome-focused interventions.
- Deliver support through home visits, telephone contact, guided conversations and community-based activities.
- Empower residents to identify goals, overcome barriers and build confidence and independence.
- Support approximately 100 residents each year to reduce loneliness and improve wellbeing.
- Develop and coordinate a monthly Befriending Café to encourage peer support, social connection and community participation.
- Build strong partnerships with Westminster City Council, health services, voluntary organisations and community groups.
- Develop referral pathways that enable residents to access wider support services.
- Recruit, match, support and supervise befriending volunteers.
- Provide volunteers with guidance, regular supervision and ongoing support.
- Maintain accurate case records and monitor outcomes using recognised wellbeing measures, including:
- Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS)
- Life Satisfaction Measures
- Loneliness Scales
- Monitor project outcomes, contribute to funding reports and support continuous service improvement.
- Respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns and promote safe working practices at all times.
- Contribute to maintaining high-quality standards in line with Befriending Quality Mark principles.
About the People You'll Support
Many of the residents accessing our service:
- Experience loneliness and social isolation.
- Live with long-term health conditions or reduced mobility.
- May have memory difficulties or cognitive decline.
- Have experienced bereavement or significant life changes.
- Live with long-term mental health challenges.
- May face poverty, housing issues or limited support networks.
- Can present with complex emotional or safeguarding concerns.
You will provide compassionate, professional and empowering support while helping individuals achieve sustainable improvements in wellbeing and independence.
About You
We're looking for someone who has:
- Experience supporting older people, vulnerable adults or individuals with complex needs.
- Experience delivering wellbeing, community or outcome-focused support services.
- Excellent communication, listening and relationship-building skills.
- Experience using strengths-based, person-centred or motivational approaches.
- Knowledge of safeguarding adults and risk management.
- Experience working in partnership with statutory and voluntary organisations.
- Experience coordinating or supporting volunteers (desirable).
- Good organisational skills with the ability to manage a varied caseload.
- Strong IT, record-keeping and reporting skills.
- A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- An understanding of community resources that promote independence and social connectedness.
Knowledge of Befriending Quality Mark standards or similar quality frameworks would be an advantage but is not essential.
What We Offer
At Age UK Westminster you'll receive:
- Comprehensive induction and ongoing training.
- Safeguarding and wellbeing training.
- Training in goal-focused and strengths-based practice.
- Regular supervision and management support.
- Opportunities for professional development and partnership networking.
- 7% contributory pension.
- Basic health plan.
- Blue Light Discount Card.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to help transform the lives of older people in Westminster by reducing loneliness, improving wellbeing and supporting people to build lasting social connections and greater independence.
If you're passionate about person-centred support and want to be part of a friendly and dedicated team, we'd love to hear from you.
If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please email your CV with a supporting letter (showing how you meet the personal specification).
Closing date: 31st July 2026 at noon. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and interviews may be conducted before the closing date. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a suitable candidate be appointed.
The Nook, Greenwich is a peer support project aiming to provide a safe and welcoming space for young people living in the Royal Borough of Greenwich (or those who have a GP within the borough) to connect with other young adults who have experienced mental health challenges.
We are recruiting a sessional Young Person's Peer Support Worker to co-lead the development and delivery of The Nook alongside our Peer Support Coordinator and a team of volunteers.
You will work with Peer Support Volunteers to plan and co-facilitate the groups in line with service user needs. You will have experience of group development, psychoeducation, collaborative working across service teams and an excellent understanding of service user engagement particularly with young people. You will be highly organised and be proficient with case management tasks and project management administration and take an active role in creating partnerships.
Groups will be held at the University of Greenwich premises and will run every week until March 2027, with hope of an extension of contract. We particularly want to increase engagement of under-served communities in Greenwich.
Successful applicants will be expected to undergo an Enhanced Level Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Closing date: Monday 3rd August (11:59pm)
Likely interview date: Friday 14th August
We encourage early applications as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.
About Us
SEL Mind supports people with mental health problems and dementia in the boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. We are proud of our diverse workforce and know that our organisation is made stronger by the variety of backgrounds, experience, and ideas within it. We promote a culture of inclusion and representation, and are working hard to build a workforce that even better reflects the communities we support.
SEL Mind is somewhere that you can be your authentic self without fear of discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, neurodivergence, gender, age, lived experience of mental health problems or anything else that’s part of who you are.
We work to be there when it matters for people living with mental health problems and dementia in Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark



Build a resident-led network of community support on the Bourne and Tybalds Estates (in Holborn & Covent Garden ward). The project focuses on estates experiencing high levels of deprivation and inequality, supporting residents to develop skills, confidence and ownership so they can shape, deliver and sustain community-led activities, events and campaigns. Getting involved now offers the chance to shape the project itself and work with people to create a truly empowering, enriching project making a difference to people’s lives.
We are seeking someone who:
- Can engage with the community in an open, accessible and inclusive way to understand their needs
- Has experience involving volunteers in ongoing, active participation in their community
- Is confident organising themselves and others
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Are you looking for a new Challenge?
Do you have experience of working within drug services and with volunteers?
Do you have relevant experience? This might be alcohol or injecting drug use, viral hepatitis or other liver disease. Have you supported anyone who has?
We are looking for a passionate, skilled and self-motivated individual who likes to be part of a team but equally can work on their own. The post holder must have a desire to make a difference in promoting hepatitis C and liver health awareness & access to care among services and affected communities.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within an existing team across the South East London area.
We may begin interviewing candidates before the closing date and reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is appointed.
The Hepatitis C Trust is a charity dedicated to eliminating hepatitis C in the UK by 2030.


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Age UK Wandsworth is a local, independent charity that works to promote the wellbeing of all older people in the London Borough of Wandsworth. We offer a variety of services with the goal of helping older people to #AgeWellinWandsworth. Our charity is consistently growing, so we are creating this new role to support our CEO with social media, marketing and organising events.
The role will suit someone who is calm, mature, professional, organised and creative and will be comfortable working directly with a creative and curious CEO committed to transforming the charity’s online presence.
What we can offer you:
You'll be joining a vibrant workplace where no two days are the same, working as part of a small, supportive team that is committed to making a positive difference in the community. You'll benefit from an experienced leadership team, collaborate with kind and caring colleagues who genuinely work together, and even have the company of a friendly hypo-allergenic office dog.
Due to the nature of the work that we carry out, our staff work from our office, day centre and in the community. Therefore, please note that unless it is otherwise stated, all roles advertised will require the successful candidate to work on-site.
Employee benefits:
- 5% employer’s pension contribution
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee shopping benefits scheme
- Employee assistance programme (EAP)
- Employee recognition and reward programme
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
Our mission is to help older people to age well in Wandsworth.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:
Fundraising Delivery
· Deliver challenge and community fundraising campaigns and events that achieve agreed income and participation targets.
· Support the Community & Challenge Events Manager with the delivery and stewardship of Back Up's London Marathon programme, taking ownership of agreed areas of delivery.
· Support delivery of The Push, No Limits Ride, Do the Loop and other Back Up Challenge Events.
· Deliver accessible, inclusive Community fundraising opportunities.
· Coordinate suppliers, volunteers and event logistics.
· Maintain accurate CRM and financial records.
Supporter Experience & Stewardship
· Build long-term supporter relationships that maximise fundraising, retention and lifetime value.
· Coach and motivate supporters to exceed fundraising targets.
· Deliver timely stewardship, thanking and impact reporting.
· Identify opportunities to improve supporter experience, fundraising performance and operational efficiency, making recommendations to the Community & Challenge Events Manager.
Planning, Performance & Insight
· Monitor recruitment, participation, fundraising and stewardship KPIs across the community and challenge fundraising portfolio.
· Maintain accurate supporter records, event information and financial data within the CRM and fundraising platforms.
· Produce performance reports and updates for the Community & Challenge Events Manager.
· Gather and share supporter feedback and learning to help evaluate and continually improve fundraising activities.
· Support the effective administration and evaluation of fundraising activities, ensuring accurate reporting and compliance with fundraising policies and procedures.
Collaboration
· Work with Communications & Marketing on recruitment and stewardship.
· Work with Services to engage participants and volunteers.
· Support Corporate Partnerships.
· Champion fundraising across the organisation.
The above list is not exclusive or exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such duties as may reasonably be expected within the scope of this role.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
Essential:
· Experience delivering community or challenge fundraising.
· Excellent supporter stewardship skills.
· Experience achieving income targets and KPIs.
· Strong project management and organisational skills.
· Experience with CRM systems and online fundraising platforms
· Ability to use data and insight.
· Creative, proactive and collaborative.
· Commitment to inclusive and accessible fundraising.
· Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends.
Desirable:
· Experience delivering London Marathon or other mass participation events.
· Experience working with volunteers.
· Experience working with people with lived experience of disability/health conditions
· Knowledge of fundraising regulation.
· Experience with Salesforce, Fundraise Up, Raisley and Enthuse platforms
· Understanding of spinal cord injury or disability sector.
Please apply by emailing recruitment at backuptrust
• A CV (including two referees, one of whom should be your present or most recent employer. We will contact them after interview.)
• A (maximum) two side A4 supporting statement, saying why you want the job and explaining how you meet the criteria in the job description. This statement is crucial; CVs alone will not be accepted.
• A completed equal opportunities form. This form will be kept separate from your application and not viewed by the recruiting manager. It is used to help us assess the diversity of our applicants to ensure our processes are fair to all. It is optional to fill in, but it will help us improve and maintain high standards.
At Back Up, our vision is a world where everyone affected by spinal cord injury can reach their full potential.

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Using Anonymous Recruitment
This organisation is using Anonymous Recruitment to reduce bias in the first stages of the hiring process. Submit your application as normal and our system will anonymise it for you. Your personal information will be hidden until the recruiter contacts you.
Os ydych yn drefnydd sy’n canolbwyntio ar bobl ac yn mwynhau meithrin cysylltiadau a chreu effaith, byddem wrth ein bodd yn clywed gennych.
Volunteers are at the heart of our work. Each year, they support over 70,000 young people to build confidence, develop skills and explore their futures through insight talks, workshops and events.
We’re looking for a Volunteer Coordinator to grow and support our network across Wales. This is a new role, created as we invest in strengthening how we recruit, prepare and engage our volunteers, with the opportunity to shape how this work develops.
In this role, you’ll build relationships with employers, public sector organisations and community groups to recruit volunteers from a wide range of industries. You’ll manage onboarding, support volunteers to feel confident and well-prepared to work with young people, and work closely with our Volunteer Manager and Programme Team to match volunteers to opportunities across Wales.
You’ll play a key part in ensuring volunteers have a positive, high-quality experience – providing ongoing support, responding to feedback, and helping us continuously improve how we engage and retain our network. Alongside this, you’ll track activity, maintain accurate records, and contribute to understanding our reach and impact.
We’re looking for someone who is highly organised, proactive and great with people, confident building relationships, managing multiple priorities and communicating clearly. You’ll bring experience of working with volunteers, or in a coordination or partnership-focused role, and have a genuine motivation to support young people to achieve their potential. And, we'd love someone who is confident communicating in the medium of Welsh.
This role would suit someone who enjoys working collaboratively, is comfortable working across a wide geography, and is motivated by creating opportunities and delivering impact.
If you’re motivated by purpose, confident bringing people together, and want to play a key role in expanding our impact across Wales, we’d love to hear from you.
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We carry out social media checks on shortlisted candidates as part of our recruitment process, using only publicly available information and in line with our data protection responsibilities.
While we don’t specify this in our person specification, we are particularly interested to hear from applicants who have experienced some of the challenges that young people across Wales face today.
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About FARA
FARA Foundation was founded in 1991 by Jane Nicholson, driven by the sight of the appalling images of neglected and starving children in Romania’s state institutions, in the wake of the fall of Ceaușescu in Romania. In 1992, recognising that the need was great and funds were going to be required, the first FARA Charity Shop opened in August 1992.
FARA Charity Shops are the heart of our fundraising efforts, providing the majority of income to support our ongoing work with vulnerable children and families in Romania. Stylish and community-driven, FARA shops offer a distinctive reuse second-hand retail experience in 39 vibrant shops across 26 London communities.
The Role:
We have an exciting 12-month fixed-term opportunity for an experienced Volunteer Coordinator to join FARA Foundation at this pivotal time. This critical new role for the organisation will play a key role in the development and growth of volunteering across all areas of the organisation with special emphasis on the retail arm.
We are looking for someone who has previous experience working as a Volunteer Coordinator in a Charity Retail environment who is keen to use their experience and develop their skills and expertise further in this important role. This post will need to work closely with the Chief Operating Officer, Trading Director, Retail Area Managers and shop managers to ensure that they operate to a high standard and in an effective and efficient manner.
This role requires a clear and confident manner, excellent written and spoken communication skills and the successful applicant will need to demonstrate good skills in writing and digital literacy. This role is expected to be physically present in shops, with travel across London between shops expected in each working week.
The Candidate:
- You will have great interpersonal skills and be willing to develop effective working relationships with all management, shop, support staff and volunteers.
- You will have a desire to make things run effectively and smoothly they will be able to plan and organise their work while having a high degree of motivation and good time management.
- You will be flexible and adaptable with the energy and enthusiasm to take on this role to help drive the charity forward.
Key Deliverables
The role is accountable for delivering the key volunteering objectives within the following areas within the 12-month period.
- Growth: Increased enquiries, applications, starts and active volunteer numbers in agreed priority shops or areas.
- Retention and experience: Improved engagement, recognition, retention and feedback from volunteers.
- Manager capability: Improved manager confidence and satisfaction in volunteer recruitment and support, including use of the stepping stones volunteering competency as a measure of progress.
- Consistency: Agreed recruitment, onboarding, induction, engagement, recognition and exit processes are used consistently.
- Impact visibility: Clearer data on volunteer numbers, activity, retention, hours, impact and contribution.
- Compliance: Volunteering practice remains compliant, proportionate, inclusive and clearly distinct from employment arrangements
What We Offer:
- Salary will be commensurate with the role, circa £36,000 per year
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced sick pay (subject to conditions)
- 29 days holiday including bank and public holidays
- Working across the estate, with opportunities for some home working
Application Process
To apply, please submit the following by email
- A two-page CV
- A cover letter (max two pages) outlining how you meet the person specification and why you’re excited about this role.
Applications Deadline: 31 July 2026
Interview dates:
- Round one: Online w/c 10th August 2026 (online via Zoom)
- Round two: In Person w/c 24th August 2026 (Teddington or Islington)
A family for those "without" 30 years of transforming the lives of children in Romania



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Project Worker 1 Volunteer Coordinator
Part time role - 3 days a week
We are looking for a dynamic person to coordinate the volunteers within Barking and Dagenham, is this YOU?
You will be working within the Barking and Dagenham Children and Family Health Service (Universal 0-19). NELFT delivers the Healthy Child Programme in partnership with Barnardo's. Our teams are fully integrated consisting of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Community Staff Nurses, Clinical Support Workers, Community Nursery Nurses and Administrators. This role will work alongside colleagues within our Healthy Child Teams.
Are you passionate about your community and keen to inspire local people on their volunteering journey? If yes, then this job is for you!
Tasks required
- Support the growth and development of our volunteer community
- Build strong relationships with local people and service professionals to ensure the project runs smoothly
- Provide mentoring and guidance to volunteers, offering the personal support they need to succeed
Skills required
- You must be passionate about volunteering
- Bring strong organisational skills, to set clear objectives and offer approachable, face-to face supervision and guidance to the volunteer team
- Have some experience of volunteering yourself
Essential requirements for the role.
- Complete an Enchanted DBS for working with vulnerable children
- Be confident to travel around Barking and Dagenham
- Have a sense of humour, be open to new ideas and challenges
If you feel you have the skills to support our service then please do apply, please complete your application with as much detail as you can and include any relevant qualification or experience.
We look forward to meeting YOU.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.
Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Our basis and values
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Help build meaningful relationships with communities most impacted by the criminal legal system and ensure their voices inform research, policy and advocacy.
We're looking for a Community Engagement Coordinator to join UNJUST and support the development and delivery of community engagement activities that amplify lived experience, build trust, raise awareness and contribute to our research, policy and advocacy aims.
Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, you'll build and maintain relationships with community groups, grassroots organisations and individuals with lived experience of the criminal justice system. You'll design and deliver engagement events, facilitate workshops and listening sessions, promote opportunities for community members to get involved in UNJUST's work and help develop creative, ethical ways of gathering and sharing lived experience stories.
The role also includes co-creating programmes and materials with communities, supporting content creation for social media, recruiting interns and volunteers from impacted communities, and representing UNJUST in relevant forums, networks and coalitions.
We're looking for someone with experience in community engagement, organising or outreach, strong relationship-building and communication skills, and an understanding of racial justice and the UK criminal justice system. You'll be committed to UNJUST's mission, values and anti-racist working practices, and be comfortable working independently as well as collaboratively.
UNJUST is committed to tackling systemic racism and discriminatory processes, policy and practices within the criminal legal system. We work at the intersection of lived experience, research, law, advocacy and community power to expose the root causes of injustice, reimagine equitable systems and bring about transformative outcomes. Our work centres the voices of those most impacted and is guided by our values of realism, empathy, visionary thinking, activism, collaboration and trust.
Challenging discrimination within the Policing and the Criminal Legal System
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We are looking for an experienced and inspiring Garden and Volunteer Wellbeing Coordinator with an interest in garden and wellbeing activities to come and be part of an exciting community garden project. You will have experience of supporting staff and volunteers and be able to assist with the project management of the ongoing development of the gardens.
Location: Frimley and Woking
Salary: £24,980 pro rata (£14,988 actual)
Hours: 21 hours per week (ideally Tuesday to Thursday)
Contract type: Permanent
About the organisation:
Through Community, Specialist and Outreach services, we support recovery, mental health, and wellbeing—together, every step of the way.
Key responsibilities:
- Project manage the enclosed garden space at Frimley Lodge Park and The Arch in Woking.
- Develop and facilitate a programme of activities within the Catalyst Community Wellbeing Garden that will help improve wellbeing for people in the community, including:
- Seasonal workshops
- Gardening with the CEO
- Staff and partner wellbeing touchpoints
- Groups for clients struggling with their mental wellbeing
- Recruit, develop and manage garden volunteers
- Work with other partners to promote volunteering and creating a space for wellbeing activities
- Use excellent interpersonal skills to motivate and inspire participants to get the most out of the opportunities that the garden presents
- Develop and implement growing plans and vision for the garden with input from colleagues and volunteers
- Ensure operations are well-organised, safely managed and delivered
- Implement and manage a booking system for volunteer and staff rotas
- Be prepared for physically demanding aspects i.e. digging, lifting and bending
- Ensure the garden is adequately planted during all seasons, and that a programme of activity is in place
- Lead the development of the land and facilities with input from colleagues and volunteers
- Prioritise and time-manage short and long-term growing projects and developments
- Maintain a productive year-round vegetable and herb garden
- Work with colleagues and staff to organise and facilitate seasonal events in the garden
- Develop opportunities for food sharing
- Facilitate the smooth running of activities in the gardens ensuring they are productive, attractive, and pleasant spaces for people to socialise and gather
- Be available to support other Community Connections groups and activities
About you
Essential:
- Experience of working / learning in a horticulture environment
- Experience of working in mental health
- Proven horticulture and gardening knowledge
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent planning and development skills
- Ability to organise and manage your own workload
- Good financial awareness when budgeting and planning
- Great communications and interpersonal skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work through busy and challenging priorities
- Ability to work under pressure, with full workloads and to tight deadlines
- Ability to think and work strategically
- Ability use initiative, confidence in making decisions and ability to work collaboratively
- Have authentic attributes of Kindness, Commitment and Integrity
- Ability to work as a team and support other team members
- Ability to maintain Equal Opportunity standards at all times
- Flexible and can-do attitude
- Ability to travel to and from both gardens
Desirable:
- Educated to A level or equivalent in relevant disciplines e.g. English, Media
- Experience of supporting volunteers
- Experience of developing creative wellbeing activities
Benefits
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
- Pension scheme and access to Simply Health (including optical, dental, counselling sessions)
- Birthday leave, employee discounts, and flexible working where possible
- Supportive probation, sick pay after probation, and wellbeing/EAP resources
Safeguarding & Checks
- This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
- A past history of drug/alcohol issues or criminality will not necessarily exclude you from this role; we encourage applications from people with lived experience where appropriate.
- All applicants must have a valid right to work in the UK.
Catalyst Support is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate difference and are committed to fairness, accessibility, and inclusion throughout recruitment and employment.
We welcome requests for reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process.
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Please submit your CV and a cover letter setting out how your skills and experience align with the requirements of this role.
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Support Coordinator
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team in Birmingham & Solihull.
We’re looking for enthusiastic, motivated and well organised individuals to join us in delivering a comprehensive Stroke Recovery Service across the region.
Position: 000031 Stroke Association Support Coordinator
Location: Home-based, Birmingham & Solihull. However, extensive travel across the region will be required as part of this role (will include team meetings and other work-related meetings)
Hours: Part-time, 21 hours per week
Salary: Circa £17,000 per annum (FTE circa £28,300 per annum)
Contract: Our services are contracted, we currently have funding until 31 March 2027
Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Health Cash Plan, flexible working opportunities available.
Closing Date: 09 August 2026
Interview Date: 25 or 26 August 2026. Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application.
The Role
Reporting to the Stroke Association Service Delivery Coach, the coordinator will work with the local Health and Social Care services to receive referrals and support stroke survivors and their carers. As a coordinator you will provide personalised information, advice and support with regular reviews throughout.
Key responsibilities will include:
· Working with the local Health and Social services to receive referrals to support stroke survivors and their careers.
· Providing personalised information, advice and support to address any needs identified.
· Completing Needs Assessments with stroke survivors and supporting them to develop a stroke recovery plan.
· Providing regular reviews to support people in establishing and achieving their own personal goals
About You
You will:
· Have a background in a caring and/or charity profession supporting people with disabilities.
· Be able to demonstrate previous experience of working collaboratively with other organisations to achieve joint ambitions.
· Have experience of working with people who may have additional communication support needs.
· Be proficient in using Microsoft applications, including Word and Excel and experience using IT systems to record and maintain beneficiary data.
This role requires extensive travel across a large geographical locality to visit people at home and in community settings. Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role.
To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.
Applications
You will be asked to submit your CV, (including details of your current address), and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident scheme, please indicate this in your supporting statement, and in the main body of your email when applying for the role.
You will be able to view the role profile when you apply.
Stroke Association
Finding strength through support
The Stroke Association is the only charity in the UK providing lifelong support for all stroke survivors and their families. We provide tailored support to tens of thousands of stroke survivors each year. This support includes one-to-one and group support, funding vital scientific research into stroke prevention, acute treatment, recovery and long-term care, and campaigning to secure the best care for everyone affected by stroke.
We’re here for stroke survivors and their loved ones, from the moment they enter the new and frightening post-stroke world, supporting them every step of the way as they find their strength and their way back to life.
It’s only thanks to the generosity of our supporters and donors that we can provide vital support.
Stroke Association is driven by our ambition to improve the lives of everyone affected by stroke. This means we’re determined to create an equitable and inclusive workplace that benefits from the difference, and thrives on the diversity, of our people. Guided by Our approach to solving inequity in stroke, we are prioritising listening to, and learning from, lived experience across our charity.
We are working to improve the representation of this lived experience at all levels within the Stroke Association and we are eager to recruit applicants from a variety of communities and backgrounds. We are keen to receive applications from people affected by stroke, people of colour, members of LGBT+ communities, and disabled people because these identities and experiences are underrepresented and would add enormous value to how we work.
We are a Disability Confident employer, and we are making great progress focusing on flexible working, reasonable adjustments and access to work. Our charity has a variety of staff network groups and we're committed to continuously improving our diversity and inclusion efforts. If you have questions, or access needs, we’re happy to discuss any support and adjustments we can make throughout the recruitment process so that you’re able to contribute your best in a way that meets your needs.
You may also have experience in areas such as Care Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care, Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice, Social Care, Carer Support, Support Service.
Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client, Not For Profit People. #INDNFP
Support Coordinator
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our South West London Team. Reporting to Service Delivery Coach, Gavin Hughes.
Position: 000028 Stroke Association Support Coordinator
Location: Home-based, South West London – Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2027. However, regular travel will be required as part of this role (will include team meetings or other work-related meetings).
Hours: Part-time, 28 hours per week
Salary: Circa £22,600 per annum (inner London weighting £3,950 per annum/pro rata or outer London weighting £2,457 per annum/pro rata may be applied in accordance with where you live) (FTE circa £28,300 per annum plus any London weighting if applicable)
Contract: Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2027
Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Health Cash Plan, flexible working opportunities available.
Closing Date: 2 August 2026
Interview Date: 12 August 2026, London EC1V 2PR
The Role
Key responsibilities will include:
· Organise and facilitate effective service communication for the benefit of stroke survivors and carers in understanding and achieving their goals.
· Ensure that timely, confidential and accurate records are kept on our CRM data base and all data is in line with our retention policy and GDPR compliant.
· Develop and manage service volunteers to support service delivery for stroke survivors and carers as required.
About You
You will have experience in:
· Providing person centred support to empower vulnerable people or people with a disability or long term health condition and their carers
· Ability to nurture emotional resilience needed to handle a variety of calls, potentially dealing with complex and challenging situations whilst working in your own home
· Effective listening skills with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a diverse audience including anyone experiencing communication difficulties via a combination of face to face visits or meetings, telephone calls, emails or letters, and digital methods (such as video calls)
This role requires regular travel across a large geographical locality to visit people at home and in community settings. Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role.
Applications
You will be asked to submit your CV, (including details of your current address), and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident scheme, please indicate this in your supporting statement.
You will be able to view the role profile when you apply.
Stroke Association
Finding strength through support
The Stroke Association is the only charity in the UK providing lifelong support for all stroke survivors and their families. We provide tailored support to tens of thousands of stroke survivors each year. This support includes one-to-one and group support, funding vital scientific research into stroke prevention, acute treatment, recovery and long-term care, and campaigning to secure the best care for everyone affected by stroke.
We’re here for stroke survivors and their loved ones, from the moment they enter the new and frightening post-stroke world, supporting them every step of the way as they find their strength and their way back to life.
It’s only thanks to the generosity of our supporters and donors that we can provide vital support.
Stroke Association is driven by our ambition to improve the lives of everyone affected by stroke. This means we’re determined to create an equitable and inclusive workplace that benefits from the difference, and thrives on the diversity, of our people. Guided by Our approach to solving inequity in stroke, we are prioritising listening to, and learning from, lived experience across our charity.
We are working to improve the representation of this lived experience at all levels within the Stroke Association and we are eager to recruit applicants from a variety of communities and backgrounds. We are keen to receive applications from people affected by stroke, people of colour, members of LGBT+ communities, and disabled people because these identities and experiences are underrepresented and would add enormous value to how we work.
We are a Disability Confident employer, and we are making great progress focusing on flexible working, reasonable adjustments and access to work. Our charity has a variety of staff network groups and we're committed to continuously improving our diversity and inclusion efforts. If you have questions, or access needs, we’re happy to discuss any support and adjustments we can make throughout the recruitment process so that you’re able to contribute your best in a way that meets your needs.
You may also have experience in areas such as Care Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care, Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice, Social Care, Carer Support, Support Service.
Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client, Not For Profit People. #INDNFP
Bow Church is looking for an organised, proactive and relational Operations Coordinator to play a key role in supporting the day-to-day life, ministry and mission of our church community.
Bow Church is a vibrant community seeking out the abundant life of following Jesus, encountering the Spirit and growing in the Bible – and helping others in Bow to come, belong, serve, give and grow within that story.
Working closely with the Rector and other leaders, you’ll coordinate the practical rhythms of church life, maintain the systems, communication and organisation that enable the life of the church to flourish, help oversee our buildings, events and governance, and support volunteers, ministry leaders and staff.
This is a varied and rewarding role that would suit someone who enjoys helping people, systems and activities work well together. You’ll need strong organisational and interpersonal skills, good judgement and the ability to move confidently between practical administration, relationship-building and day-to-day problem-solving.
This is a permanent, flexible three-day-per-week role (21 hours), including some Sundays and occasional evenings as part of the normal rhythm of church life. Salary: £19,200–£21,600 per annum (£32,000–£36,000 FTE), depending on experience.
There is a Genuine Occupational Requirement for the postholder to be a practising Christian under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.
For information on this and any other vacancies and to get more of a sense of who we are, please visit: www.bow.church/work-with-us
The cover letter forms an important part of our recruitment process, so we’d encourage you to give it the time and thought it deserves.
There is a Genuine Occupational Requirement for the postholder to be a practising Christian under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Girlguiding at a pivotal time as we grow and evolve our digital learning offer for volunteers. As L&D project coordinator, you’ll lead and coordinate a diverse portfolio of volunteer learning and development projects, from concept through to delivery and evaluation. You’ll design high-quality, engaging learning experiences—both digital and face-to-face—working closely with subject matter experts and using learning design principles to ensure our offer is impactful, accessible, and meets the needs of volunteers. Please note that this is a part-time role.
At the heart of this role is meaningful partnership working with volunteers. You’ll champion co-creation and co-delivery, ensuring that volunteer voices shape everything we do. By building strong relationships and actively listening to those we support, you’ll help create learning experiences that empower volunteers and enhance the experience of girls and young women across the UK.
We’re looking for someone with experience in learning and development, particularly in designing and developing learning programmes or resources. You’ll be confident applying learning design principles, managing projects end-to-end, and working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders. Just as importantly, you’ll bring a genuine commitment to partnership working—valuing and engaging volunteers as co-creators in shaping meaningful, high-quality learning experiences.


