At a glance

Skills

General / operations management
Office and Administration Management
Project / programme management
Volunteer management
Service design

Where

Basildon, SS14 1HA

Mainly at the office

Travel limit? Within 15 miles of Basildon, Essex

Time

Mostly during office hours Estimate of time needed:
3-7 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 coordinating a small

Number of front-line services and occasionally applying for small grants.

What will you be doing?

Key Responsibilities

To ensure the regular smooth running of a small number of services, including several pop-up stands, several walking groups, an Allotment and a Yoga group. We currently hold one weekly pop-up plus one monthly pop-up. We also run 4 weekly Walking Groups. Additionally, we run a weekly Allotment group and a Yoga group. These are all run by others but need light-touch management.
To attend a small number of events (e.g. 1 per month), representing the charity. In addition to a number of planned annual events, we get invited to other local organisations’ events or to make presentations to them.
To apply for various small grants each year. These must be researched in terms of how we meet their criteria and the submissions written, sent and followed up.
To recruit and supervise a small number of specialist volunteers. Our charity has 4 times as many volunteers as Staff, including a small number of volunteers with specific, specialist knowledge.
Attend internal and external meetings, events and training as and when necessary.
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 experience running small services and undertake wider organisation responsibilities 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)).

Ensuring that we have continue to run our small services professionally is of paramount importance.

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

Before you apply

Please apply via Reach Volunteering.

Small Services 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...