Charity Fundraiser in Preston

A worthwhile job that gives work-life balance. Imagine a job where people from all kinds of backgrounds and ages, including those shifting careers aged 40-65, are successful. 80% of the staff work 3 or 4 days per week. You can potentially work your hours between 9am to 7pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 3pm on Saturdays. Most staff vary their working hours week to week to fit in around time with family, friends, pets, medical appointments, etc. You can even compress your hours over 2 weeks to get blocks of days off. You generally work within half an hour of your home, you don’t have to travel in rush hour, travel time is built into your contract, and you get a travel allowance payment. The company shuts down over Christmas and New Year for at least a full week, so you can have a proper break. Training is comprehensive but done remotely by home study, so no need to travel to a hotel and stay overnight, and is followed up with excellent ongoing support and encouragement.

We think supporting a good work-life balance for our staff is business-critical. We offer flexible local working and a culture that supports you to maximise your life outside of work. A worthwhile job that also has its rewards.

The role is working as a face-to-face charity fundraiser on behalf of Derian House Children’s Hospice. Derian House helps seriously and terminally ill children live life to the fullest by creating wonderful experiences and bringing back a sense of normality to family life. By providing specialist nursing care and emotional support, we help families smile again when life couldn’t get any tougher.

Your job will be to find more people to support us with a small regular donation so that we can make a big difference to local families. You do this by talking to local people at their homes, being friendly, explaining what Derian House does, and asking them to become a regular supporter via the Derian House Lottery programme. Derian House relies on donations for nearly 90% of its income. These services are only free to families because of fundraising. You can be a vital part of helping Derian House raise the money that it needs to be able to support local families.

A typical fundraiser will raise more than £400,000 for the charity every year that they work for. So you would be doing a job where after 5 years of work, through your professionalism, integrity, and hard work, you could raise more than £2 million for charities that deal, quite literally, in matters of life and death. Charity lotteries are vital to keeping these charities going.

People of all backgrounds and ages can be successful at this. You may have worked in sales previously, whether that is utilities, catalogues, credit cards, or for charities, and you may have also done some charitable fundraising before. This isn’t essential because our approach with potential supporters is to find people who are inclined to support the charity and have a nice conversation to find out whether this form of support is right for them. Our fundraisers come from all kinds of backgrounds including financial services, teaching, management, retail, and many more. Most of our best people are just great conversationalists who, in day-to-day life, end up talking with people when walking the dog or in bus queues.

We invite all applicants to come and watch one of our team doing the job in practice before having to make a decision to apply. Why not come and meet us and see what the job is really like? It could be just the role that you have been looking for, even if this had not been on your radar previously.

You need to be reasonably mobile and physically fit and active. We can train you in all other parts of the job very easily. You will also be ethical and take pride in doing a job the right way. You need interpersonal skills, to be a good listener, and be able to communicate effectively; however, you don’t need to be really persuasive or great at making speeches as this isn’t a typical sales job. Most of all, you need to have real integrity and self-motivation. We employ good people, treat them well, and we trust our people to work to high standards. We have an outstanding team of fundraisers who work to the highest standards and deliver the best quality results in our industry. You would feel the privilege of working with such an amazing bunch. All types of people from all sorts of backgrounds can be successful at this job.

It is a salaried role enhanced by a commission with full-time and part-time options, travel costs payment included. You will need to have a car but will typically be working within 30 minutes of your home. Full-time OTE is between £30-40k pa. We provide full training which is delivered via a home study course and ongoing support and coaching in the field. We are an ethical employer, who are committed to setting new standards and changing the face of face-to-face fundraising. That is why we are proud to already be an ISO 9001-accredited company.

Click here to find out more about what the job is like and arrange to talk with our Recruitment Specialist. You will then have the opportunity to come out and meet one of our team members at work and see what the job is really like.