Fundraising & Administration Assistant

Transformation Unit; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity, including Baby Beat, is seeking a Fundraising and Administration Assistant based at Royal Preston Hospital, Preston. This full-time role blends office work with community fundraising, donor stewardship and shop administration tasks.

You will help grow income through multi-year fundraising strategies, log donations, assist with finance tasks and support shop operations. A UK driving licence is essential to attend events and meet donors across Lancashire.

Qualifications

• Experience in fundraising or charity sector
• Knowledge of GDPR and data handling for donors
• GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
• Membership of Chartered Institute of Fundraising (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Support fundraising strategies and donor stewardship across all activities
• Provide admin and finance support, log donations, and generate acknowledgements
• Be the first point of contact for donors, volunteers, and suppliers
• Administer Baby Beat shop operations and retail tasks
• Represent the charity at community events when needed

Skills

Fundraising

Donor management

GDPR awareness

Customer service

Education

GCSE Maths & English

Full UK Driving Licence

AS and A levels

Chartered Fundraiser membership

Tools

Just Giving

Enthuse

Trybooking

Job description

Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum

Closing 20/10/2026 23:59

Employer Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Location Royal Preston Hospital, Preston

Band 3

Job overview

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity includes Baby Beat currently has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Fundraising and Administration Assistant, based at Royal Preston Hospital. This is a full-time role that combines office-based work with time spent in the community, attending fundraising events and supporting our valued donors and volunteers. In return, you'll receive a competitive salary and become part of a passionate, high-achieving team.

Our charity raises almost £1m annually through a varied and dynamic portfolio of activities. We’re looking for someone enthusiastic, hardworking, and flexible—ready to meet the challenge and play a key role in one of the region’s most successful Hospital charity's.

If you want to make a real difference to the lives of local patients and are keen to begin or develop a career in the charity sector—whether or not you have previous fundraising experience,we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Support the Lancashire Teaching Hospital Charity team including Baby Beat to implement multi-year strategies to increase income and
support for them across all areas of fundraising, ensuring donors and supporters receive appropriate stewardship, as well as providing retail administrative, charity administrative and finance support.

You will often be the first point of contact with donors, customers, volunteers, supporters, Trust staff and suppliers.

This post is predominately office-based working with the need to work in the community at fundraising events along with supporting and stewarding the charity’s supporters and donors.

You’ll need to be flexible, enthusiastic, and confident when working with the public, as you’ll sometimes represent the charity at community events.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable experience in a supportive and fast-paced charity environment, where your contribution will truly make a difference.

A car and driving licence are essential for this post as the post holder will be required to drop of fundraising resources, meet with donors and fundraisers, support fundraising events and attend third party fundraising activities and functions across Lancashire.

Working for our organisation

Here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity, we are dedicated to making a difference to the thousands of patients treated at our hospitals every year.

Our aim is to enhance the services already provided by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, so that patients treated at our hospitals have access to the best possible care, in the very best facilities.

Our support helps us go above and beyond the scope of the NHS by making a difference in four key areas:

• Funding projects such as patient services and comforts
• Supporting patients needs and staff welfare
• Supporting the advancement of clinical research

We can fund those added extras that can make all the difference to our patients, when they need it the most.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for complete details. Key responsibilities include:

Providing general fundraising support across all areas as needed

Support the charity team to grow income through excellent
stewardship and relationship support. This will include
supporting wider fundraising activities and leading on lower value
fundraising initiatives

Provide administrative support for whole Hospital charity team
(including Baby Beat), including but not limited to:
To log donations and generate acknowledgement letters via the
donor database
To assist with general finance tasks and the counting and banking
of monies in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions Administration and processing of various digital donation and event
entry platforms such as Just Giving, Enthuse and Trybooking

Contributing to donor recruitment, donor retention, and the development of fundraising programmes and events.

Baby Beat Shop administration including but not limited to the
processing of shop income and expenditure, ordering of all stock,
stock pricing, stock control and annual stock takes to ensure
maximum profitability. Responsible for producing monthly retail reports as required to support financial accounting and audit requirements

• Supervision of shop volunteers ensuring that the shop rota is
  coordinated to maximise opening hours

Person specification

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience of working to and achieving financial targets
• Working knowledge of a donor management system or equivalent
• Experience of dealing with sensitive issues
• Knowledge of GDPR in relation to fundraising
• Previous experience working within a charity, fundraising or related role (e.g. marketing / sales)

Qualifications & Education

• GCSE Maths and English or equivalent qualifications or equivalent work experience
• Full UK Driving License
• Educated to AS and A level or equivalent experience
• Membership of Chartered Institute of Fundraising

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post. Our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available Here

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Working Smarter pledge

We are reminded everyday of how important life is, so as part of our Working Smarter pledge we offer a variety of flexible working options and wellbeing support to enable our people to find and maintain the right work-life balance.

Secondments

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Please note a young person must be in part-time education or training until they’re 18. therefore if you are under 18 we are unable to employ you on a full time basis, unless it is in an apprenticeship role.

Disclosure and Barring Service checks

If the role you’ve applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this on your behalf and the cost will be recovered from your salary, either as a one-off payment, or over 3 months. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £26.40 Standard DBS check £26.40 and Enhanced DBS check £54.40. You should be aware that if you are successful in obtaining a position that requires a DBS check but later withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check. DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions. The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here .

In line with guidance from United Kingdom Health Security Agency, all staff and volunteers are required to comply with Trust Infection Prevention and Control processes in relation to safe working. This includes mask wearing and adherence to social distancing at all Trust sites.

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