Marketing & Communications Volunteer
The Boiler House Community Space Charity
Boiler House Spaces is a community charity in Hackney. We need a marketing and communications volunteer for 3 hours per week: - To help Boiler House Spaces raise funds for our work alongside local people in Hackney - To promote Boiler House Spaces to external audiences
Boiler House Spaces is a community charity in Hackney. Local communities in Hackney face some of the highest levels of multiple deprivation including food poverty, mental and physical health inequalities, poor housing and acute gaps in essential services and yet this diverse community is rich in talent often hidden or held back. Boiler House Spaces was set up by two local women and is locally led. We run a food bank with guidance and support as well as working with partners to help local people. We open our spaces for community groups to connect and make key improvements in their own lives. The charity urgently needs to secure new funding to sustain its work and reach more local people. We need a marketing or communications volunteer – training offered. Marketing / Communications Volunteer Role description Hours: Part time (min 3 hours per week) Reporting to: Chief Executive (CE) Location: Flexible (remote or onsite in Hackney) Role objective: To help Boiler House Spaces raise funds for our work alongside local people in Hackney To promote Boiler House Spaces to external audiences Main tasks Use existing written documents to prepare and write fundraising materials including appeals, funding proposals and letters or emails to supporters (with support from Boiler House staff/CE) To prepare and once approved send out social media: news, updates and appeals To prepare responses to supporters who send enquiries or ask for more information To help organise and promote events. To keep up to date information/ records on our supporters e.g. add or update details on our contact list/ spreadsheet (training on Excel spreadsheets provided) and in our computer storage (training provided on Microsoft One Drive files and folders) .
Fundraising,Marketing, PR & Media
Basic IT skills - internet & email, Language Skills, Organising & Planning, Reading & Writing
Skills and qualities needed • Able to communicate clearly in writing • Enthusiastic 'can do' attitude • Team player - able to work well with staff, volunteers etc. • Willing to learn about fundraising and how to use Excel • To maintain confidentiality How we like to work • To work collaboratively with others • Flexible working hours • To work in line with the Boiler House Spaces values.
- A chance to work alongside our team to support local people in our diverse Hackney community, many facing tough challenges in this cost of living crisis - Learn from experienced fundraising and marketing colleagues - Gain experience and knowledge in marketing, communications and fundraising as well as of our charity’s community work - Receive training and guidance where needed
Minimum 3 hours per week – homeworking and/or at Boiler House Spaces
N16 6BE
Boiler House Spaces, George Downing Estate Cazenove Rd, Hackney London
Enter the George Downing Estate from the Cazenove Rd and walk down past the tower block turn right and the Boiler House Community Centre is at the foot of the Tower Block next to the fenced Sports area.
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