Fighting With Pride – LGBTQ+ Veterans Community Worker (VCW)

Confederation of Service Charities; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity is seeking an LGBTQ+ Veterans Community Worker to support LGBTQ+ Veterans and their families in London. This role will involve outreach, education, and building relationships with veterans and organizations, aiming to foster community confidence and inclusivity. Applicants should have experience working with service users and a passion for LGBTQ+ advocacy.

Qualifications

• Keen interest and understanding of LGBTQ+ Veterans community challenges.
• Experience supporting and developing service users.
• Self-starter with demonstrable experience of helping people.

Responsibilities

• Reach and support LGBTQ+ Veterans, personnel, and families in London.
• Educate veteran-supporting organizations about the LGBTQ+ military community.
• Encourage sign-up for the Pride in Veterans Standard (PiVS).

Skills

Relationship Building

Community Engagement

Job description

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Fighting With Pride – LGBTQ+ Veterans Community Worker (VCW)

£29,400 per annum based on 37.5 hours per week.

A hybrid role, partly based at The Poppy Factory in Richmond, London and partly homebased.

Full Time and a Fixed Term Contract initially until March 2026.

Fighting With Pride (FWP) is looking for an outstanding LGBTQ+ Veterans Community Worker to cover the London region. Initially for a period until March 2026, this fundamental, enabling, rewarding and busy role will make a real difference to the lives of LGBTQ+ Veterans, serving personnel and their families, in the London area (and working as part of team of VCWs covering the whole country). An LGBTQ+ Veterans Community Team Manager will support you, along with the Executive team at FWP.

FWP was formed in January 2020 to support LGBTQ+ Veterans, serving personnel and their families and is a registered charity, founded by Caroline Paige and Craig Jones, now led by Peter Gibson and overseen by a dynamic and experienced Board of Trustees.

The key activities of the role include reaching, connecting and supporting as many LGBTQ+ Veterans, serving personnel and families in the London area as possible, to build individual and community confidence and connect them to military and non-military organisations. You will also be working with veteran supporting organisations in London to educate them about the LGBTQ+ military community, raise awareness on the impact of the ban and help them connect and better support the LGBTQ+ defence community. You will also encourage sign up to the Pride in Veterans Standard (PiVS) to flag inclusive organisations to veterans.

You will have a keen interest in, and thorough understanding of, the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ Veterans community (or other related community), previous experience of supporting and developing service users, strong relationship building skills and be a self-starter with demonstrable experience of helping people. This role is funded by The Poppy Factory.

If you are interested in joining this friendly and supportive team, please contact Julia Muir at [e-mail] , for a full job description. Please then apply, sending your C.V. and a maximum of two sides of A4 covering letter, addressing each aspect of the Person Specification (contained in the job description) to Julia Muir at [e-mail] by 12.00 p.m. on Tuesday 1 July 2025.

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