Volunteer Grant Writer for small creative community charity | The Art Ministry

The Art Ministry; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a small, passionate charity dedicated to enhancing community health and wellbeing through creativity. As a Volunteer Grant Writer, you'll play a crucial role in securing funding by crafting compelling bids and identifying new opportunities. Collaborate with experienced trustees and service users to understand funding needs and develop a sustainable fundraising strategy. This position offers the chance to make a significant impact on the charity's growth and sustainability while gaining valuable experience in the non-profit sector. If you're driven by a desire to help others and have a knack for persuasive writing, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Ability to write successful funding bids and research funding opportunities.
• Demonstrate excellent written and financial skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with trustees to identify funding needs and research funding sources.
• Write and submit funding bids, reporting on spending and impact.

Skills

Grant Writing

Research Skills

Written Communication

Financial Skills

Budgeting

Job description

Volunteer Grant Writer for small creative community charity | The Art Ministry

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Help a small charity to improve the community's health and wellbeing through engaging in creative activities by enhancing the quality, quantity, size, and success rate of our funding applications.

What difference will you make?

Our small charity aims to significantly impact the local community's mental health and wellbeing by engaging them in affordable creative activities. An experienced grant writer will assist us in increasing our income by identifying more funding opportunities and applying for them, thereby improving our success rate and helping us secure long-term funding at a larger scale, giving us the confidence to aim higher in our funding bids to support our growth and sustainability plans.

What are we looking for?

• Ability to write successful funding bids
• Research funding opportunities and identify suitable funding targets
• Demonstrate excellent written and financial skills
• Work remotely and as part of a team
• Make plans, forecasts, and budgets, keep them up to date, and report on them
• Help develop a fundraising strategy
• Understand the needs of the charity and the funder, and create bids that satisfy both

What will you be doing?

You will work closely with the Chair of the Trustees, who has been writing funding bids for over 10 years. We are keen to share the responsibility for grant writing and involve someone with professional experience with a view to them eventually taking over as a supported leader grant writer. Your responsibilities include:

• Work with trustees, activity leaders, and service users to identify funding needs.
• Research possible sources of funding and identify eligible and suitable funding sources.
• Produce a funding timetable, showing when funds open for application, close for application, and decision dates.
• Schedule work for each application based on the funding timetable.
• Produce a funding budget and forecast, identifying where, when, and how much funding is needed, together with the forecast sources of that funding.
• Write and submit funding bids.
• Report on spending and the impact of funding according to the needs of the funder and the trustees.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Volunteer

Job function

Writing/Editing and Marketing

Industries

Non-profit Organizations