Volunteer - Fundraising Support
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Summary
We are looking to onboard a volunteer as Fundraising Support. Ideally, this would be working 2 days a week between our office in St Ives, and home.Detailed description
Summary of the role
We are looking for a volunteer to join our small and ambitious fundraising team. The role will include tasks such as:
· Carrying out research tasks into new opportunities for fundraising within the local community
· Dealing with donor and fundraiser queries via email and telephone
· Supporting the fundraising team in administration tasks such as thanking, data inputting, and following up with donors.
· Working with our database Salesforce, ensuring data is recorded and kept up to date.
· The option to engage with local community groups, attend events and deliver talks.
Benefits to volunteering with us
· The satisfaction of knowing you are making an important difference to someone’s life
· Meeting new people and being part of a friendly team
· Gaining valuable skills and experience in fundraising
· Loaned a laptop and any other equipment needed
· Training and support with your goals and development needs
· Flexibility with days and times volunteering with us
If you are a strong communicator, competent with using IT and Office packages, and believe in the work we do here at Caring Together, we’d love to hear from you! No previous experience within the charity or fundraising sector is required.
About Caring Together Charity
At Caring Together our vision is a world with no unpaid carer in crisis, isolated or struggling alone. You can join us in working to make this vision a reality for people who are looking after a family member or friend.
If you are an unpaid carer, we are here to help you. We are here to give you information and advice, and to provide services and support, to make your caring role more manageable, to benefit you and the person you support.
There are over 150,000 unpaid carers across the region covered by the charity: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Peterborough, and tens of thousands are caring alone behind closed doors. More than three in five of us will become an unpaid carer at some point in our life. We will look after a family member or friend who needs our help because of illness, disability, poor mental health or addiction. Despite how common caring is, many unpaid carers feel they are on their own.
Unpaid carers often find themselves plunged into a caring role with little warning, and feel completely overwhelmed by the heavy responsibilities they shoulder. Many are exhausted from looking after their husband, wife, partner, parent, sibling or child for hours every day, sometimes in addition to trying to hold down a job or bring up children.
We need your help to make sure that even more carers in our local communities receive the practical and emotional support that they need.
Caring Together is a network partner of Carers Trust and has grown significantly over the past ten years, providing more services and more help for family carers and their families across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.