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Flexible Schedule
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Bristol, United Kingdom
Are you looking to gain skills and experience in fundraising, or maybe to spread awareness for a good cause while chatting with a friendly team? Then this is the volunteering role for you! We have an exciting opportunity to join your local Fundraising Manager in raising awareness and funds across Bristol, Bath and Gloucestershire for children and young people facing cancer, here in our Bristol Head Office. Young Lives vs Cancer exists to make lives a little easier for children, young people, and their families while they face everything that cancer throws at them. By becoming a Regional Fundraising Support Office Volunteer, you will be helping us achieve this goal. We’ll face it altogether - but we can’t do it without you. This is the ideal role for you if you’re a great communicator, full of fundraising ideas, and looking to be part of a busy and friendly office team. You will have the opportunity to grow in confidence and develop skills in administration and fundraising as you help engage the local community in Team Young Lives. What will you be doing? Reaching out to local businesses, Schools, and community groups to invite them to Team Young Lives for upcoming campaigns, like volunteering for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month or hosting a Christmas fundraising event! Prepping and posting fundraising packs. Think Santa and his elves: we need the ultimate workforce to make sure every fundraiser has everything they need to be the BEST they possibly can be. Sourcing raffle prizes for our wonderful fundraisers! This is one of our top recommendations for fundraising events, and having a stock of raffle prizes to supply would be an amazing offer for our supporters. Interested in Media & PR? Help write press releases for local news outlets, with fundraiser shout-outs, current campaigns, and updates about our Bristol Homes from Home Prepping posts for our Social Media to keep Team Young Lives up-to-date with everything that’s going on in the South West. Getting involved with cross-team working here in our office, there are lots of other opportunities to be involved! You will be organised, enthusiastic, and methodical and be keen to learn new processes and have good written and verbal communication skills. If you have some basic IT skills that would be great although we will provide training, so you are fully equipped for your role. We will provide full training for the role and the support of a dedicated Volunteer Manager. There is also unlimited tea, coffee, chats - and frequent cakes!
Date Posted: Aug 22, 2023
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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
When a child is diagnosed with cancer it threatens everything, for them and their family. At a time when they should be busy being children, enjoying their rollercoaster teenage years or finding their feet at university, life becomes full of fear. There are many small organisations that help families with a child that has a life threatening illness, by providing grants, holidays or wishes. We want our families to take advantage of this but applying for this extra support can often be overwhelming or another thing on the to do list at a stressful time in their lives. That’s where you come in. Could you give 4 hours a week to support our families to apply for grants, holidays and wishes? What you’ll be doing You’ll be working directly with our families who are known to the Young Lives vs Cancer Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital to help them apply to organisations which can offer grants, treats, wishes or holidays to make the cancer journey more manageable. Your role will be both researching and identifying organisations offering additional practical support (such as additional grants) and practical opportunities for joy (wish granting and special offers), and then supporting families to apply to these organisations. About you You’ll need to be super organised in managing information and communicating with different audiences You’ll need to be confident in approaching conversations with new people, that includes speaking on the phone with children and families about their needs, and calling / emailing potential sources of support on their behalf You’ll have strong relationship management skills, the ability to make people you are talking to feel at ease and supported You’ll have an understanding of the experience of our children and families and the intuition to capture important information that may need passing onto Social Workers- during your induction and training we’ll support you with this. You’ll understand your own boundaries You’ll have the ability to look after your wellbeing and seek support when needed as you will be hearing directly about children’s cancer journeys which can be emotionally challenging. With the support of the GOSH Young Lives vs Cancer Social Work team you will make a tangible difference for children with a cancer diagnosis and their families Availability and location 4 hours a week during office hours (9am to 5pm, Tuesday to Thursday) From your own home but you do need to be based in the London area to attend occasional team meetings You will need to complete an application form and if successful, provide two references and complete an enhanced DBS check for this role.
Date Posted: Sep 22, 2023
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Flexible Schedule
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South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
About you You’ll have a background in education or employment and good knowledge of best practice and pathways teenagers and young adults can take towards gaining skills and increasing employment opportunities, or have the knowledge to seek them out. Training, supervision and support will be provided by our Sheffield Social Care team. You’ll have good young people communication skills and be motivated to ensure young cancer patients have the same opportunities to thrive as anyone else. You’ll be comfortable using Microsoft Office including Outlook and Teams to deliver sessions online when necessary. Based within South Yorkshire, North Lincs and North Derbyshire region You will need to complete an application form and if successful, provide two references and complete an enhanced DBS check for this role. What you will be doing Delivering a short term mentoring programme on education and/or employment for teenagers or young adults. Running weekly one to one sessions with teenagers or young adults over a 4-6 week period following a blueprint programme of topics including CV creation, interview techniques, career path options and opening networks, further education options exploration. Using your expertise to provide timely and accurate advice and support using different coaching and mentoring techniques. Creating a supportive, dynamic and safe space with mutual trust and honesty, and that allows teenagers or young adults to begin to build back their confidence and rediscover what they want to do next in terms of education and employment. Using your knowledge and tools to research and provide access to further support for the Young People you are supporting. This might mean resources and schemes to support emotional health, mental health, self-esteem when approaching education or employment. Sessions will be run during standard working hours (9-4) Monday to Friday. Times will need to suit both you and the young person. There will be different options about online or in person mentoring, or a combination. At Young Lives vs Cancer, we recognise that opportunities for too many people remain a condition of their race, class, sex, disability, sexual orientation - or a combination. Thishas never been acceptable to us as an organisation. At Young Lives vs Cancer, we do not just accept difference - we value it, we celebrate it, we nurture it, and we thrive off it. We positively welcome your application irrespective of your background.We are on a journey, and if you join us, you will be part of a community that iscommitted make a difference to the lives of children and young people with cancer.
Date Posted: Sep 22, 2023
