At a glance

Skills

Copywriting / Journalism
Event management

Where

Basildon, SS14 1HA

Mainly at the office

Travel limit? Within 15 miles of Basildon, Essex

Time

Either in or out of office hours Estimate of time needed:
1-3 hours / week

Deadline

30 Apr 2025

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Welcome to Reach Volunteering. We are a community and registered charity that connects people, skills and good causes.

To apply for this role, and any other on our platform, you need to be based in the UK, have at least three years of experience using the skills you wish to volunteer in a professional capacity or have lived experience (for trustee roles). Read more about our criteria.

We are looking for someone to be responsible for writing our monthly Newsletter, compiling Testimonials and organizing team events.

What will you be doing?

Key Responsibilities

To collate input from our various departments and services then compile, edit and publish a monthly internal Newsletter.
To write a small number of Testimonials. We interview a small number of people each year and document their experience. These Testimonials help raise awareness about our services as well as attract potential volunteers or fundraisers.
Attend internal and external meetings and training as and when necessary.
Organise team events including planning, advertising, venue identification, agenda planning and execution.
Undertake other tasks and duties, as deemed appropriate, by the Chief Executive Officer.

What are we looking for?

To be successful you will be a well-organised, self-starter, who has verbal and written communications experience to be our communications lead, demonstrating high levels of professionalism, leadership and management skills.

What difference will you make?

We are a professionally set up and run charity which complies with the national Mind charity’s rigorous quality standards (called ‘Mind Quality Management’ (MQM)).

We have 4 times as many volunteers as staff

Ensuring that we have continue to communicate internally with and celebrate our team of volunteers is really important, as well as communicating externally (e.g. by publishing Testimonials).

As a volunteer who spends quality time focusing on this task, you will help ensure that we continue to help as many local people as possible with their mental health.

Before you apply

Please apply via Reach Volunteering

Communications Volunteer for Reach Volunteering_07_Jan_2025.pdf

About Basildon Mind

Causes

Campaigning

Children / families

Counselling / advice

Housing and homelessness

Local / community

Mental health

Young people

Organisation type:

Charity

About Basildon Mind

Basildon Mind is a registered charity, providing high quality counselling, supported housing, wellbeing (allotment, walking groups), forensic advocacy...