Volunteering
Fundraising Lead (Volunteer)
Can you spare a minimum of three hours per week?
Hybrid – the role may require some travel to the Canterbury Food Bank’s warehouse and to attend events.
Unpaid role, reasonable expenses covered
Voluntary
Can you help us bring in the funds to underpin Canterbury Food Bank’s success in tackling food poverty?
We are looking for a Volunteer Fundraising Lead to play a significant role in working with the trustees to shape a fundraising strategy, to help raise awareness of Canterbury Food Bank CIO (CFB), and generate income through events, projects and fundraising activities.
CFB currently raises money through grants and individual donations. With an increasing demand on its services, the trustees would like to broaden the charity’s fundraising activities. To support this, CFB is looking for someone to: raise funds, meet fundraising targets, raise the charity’s profile with key funding partners, and inspire relevant groups to support us.
About Canterbury Food Bank:
CFB is one of the biggest of its kind in the country. In 2024 it distributed enough emergency parcels to make 117,351 meals, nearly 49,000 of which were for children.
Application
Please email expressions of interest, outlining the skills you can bring to the voluntary role to info@canterburyfoodbank.org by 28th March 2025.
More Details:
- Work with the Board of Trustees to agree a fundraising strategy, including setting annual fundraising targets
- Help develop, lead, and support a voluntary fundraising team
- Identify income-generating opportunities and develop projects
- Build, develop and maintain relationships to secure funding
- Use your people skills to bring the team together.
- Bringing fresh energy and enthusiasm to help the team develop new ideas and activities that will raise funds for CFB
- Leading the fundraising team meetings.
- Using your local networks and connections to work with businesses, shops, schools, libraries and groups in your area to host events.
- Inspire more volunteers to join CFB and become fundraising volunteers
- Responsible to the fundraising sub-committee
- Passionate about food insecurity and reducing social isolation
- Experience working in a fundraising role, including grants, trusts and foundations
- Ability and willingness to work to financial targets
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and attention to detail
- Able to work flexibly and under pressure
- Ability to be creative and entrepreneurial in order to find new ways to raise funds
- In these important volunteer roles, you’ll get the satisfaction of knowing you’re supporting people in a financial crisis in the Canterbury District
- You’ll meet lots of new people and make new friends
- You can share your existing skills and develop new skills
- We pay reasonable expenses related to your volunteering with us, including reasonable travel costs
Volunteer Opportunity Stakeholder Research Volunteer
Assisting Canterbury Food Bank to measure Social Value. Social Value is the worth of the difference we make to people’s lives and to our community.
This role will entail gathering feedback from clients who have previously used Canterbury Food Bank to gain their views on the service they have received. The information gathered from telephone calls will be recorded on a database and will feed into the Charity’s measurement of Social Value. This information will be collected by contacting clients via telephone to obtain their feedback. Volunteers will be required to follow a set list of questions.
This volunteer role is based at the Canterbury Food Bank warehouse and the new volunteers will join an established team of three volunteers (one currently taking some time off as she has a new baby). Once training has taken place timings can be flexible within our opening hours (between 9am and 2pm weekdays).
Please email expressions of interest to Mike (Signposter Team Leader) Email: mike@canterburyfoodbank.org
More Details:
- Good telephone manner
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Record keeping skills
- A listening ear
- Respect of views and values that may be different to your own
- Understand the importance of confidentiality
- Good IT skills
- Be willing to undertake training
- The satisfaction of helping someone, even if only by listening.
- The opportunity to work with an enthusiastic team of staff and volunteers
- To make new friends
- To learn new skills
Volunteer roles
Helping in the Whitstable warehouse
This role involves supporting the food bank team in managing food donations. Food donations are checked, sorted, and packed ready for distribution. Some lifting of parcels which are 13 kg or under, but there are other roles that do not require lifting. No current vacancies
Delivering food to homes
Volunteers work in pairs and deliver to homes using their own cars. The charity covers Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay and surrounding villages. At the end of each shift the volunteers would return to the Whitstable warehouse with their fob and paperwork. No current vacancies
Delivering food parcels to agencies
Parcels delivered to agency addresses throughout Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Bay using their own cars. Picking up the parcels from the Whitstable warehouse. No current vacancies
Driving the Canterbury Food Bank van
Citreon Relay 35 L3 H2 120 Enterprise. The vehicle is 6 metres long, 2.3 meters wide and 2.5 metres high. If you apply for this role an internal driving assessment will be arranged with the van manager. Some lifting is required when picking up and unloading donations. No current vacancies
Driving assistant
Assisting the van driver with loading and unloading the van, helping to direct into smaller spaces. No driving required. No current vacancies
Food parcel distribution points
Volunteers attend the distribution points in Canterbury, Whitstable, and Herne Bay along with the food bank signposters. Meeting and greeting people picking up parcels. No current vacancies
Supermarket collection days
We occasionally arrange supermarket collection days and need help with these. This involves working in shifts, representing the charity and collecting donations at the front of the store. Vacancies available
*We are happy to hold onto your details and let you know when volunteering opportunities come up if vacancies are filled.
Thinking of volunteering? Apply today!
Simply download the Volunteer Application form, complete and return it to Canterbury Food Bank using the form on this page.
We look forward to hearing from you…
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Alternatively, call us on 01227 936450 (option 3)
