St Piers Community Fundraiser

at  Young Epilepsy

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

A confident communicator who can build rapport and maintain positive professional relationships with funders, partners and community groups
Proven success of charity fundraising with companies and community organisations
Experience of working in a target-driven environment.
Experience working with volunteers
Experience of working successfully within a team but also confident to work independently

ABOUT US

Young Epilepsy is the children and young people’s epilepsy charity. Our purpose is to create a society in which children and young people with epilepsy are enabled to thrive and fulfil their potential. A society in which their voices are respected, and their ambitions realised.
We work with children and young people across the country, as well as many of those people and organisations who shape their lives - parents, health and care professionals, researchers, teachers, policymakers and more.
Informed by young people and drawing on our strong legacy of expertise in education, health

and research, we have developed and published our 2020-2025 strategy. This focuses our work around 3 key offers: health and research, voice and support and St Piers special education. Within these key offers we aim to:

• Coordinate research that improves diagnosis and treatments, and deliver cutting-edge health services
• Campaign for children’s rights, supporting them in school and college and providing innovation tools, information, and practical help for living day-to-day life
• Provide an innovative and creative environment for children and young people with epilepsy, autism, and severe learning difficulties.

The Community Fundraising Officer will be responsible for raising voluntary funds from the local community to enhance the education and social provision for the students at St Piers. Funds will go towards equipment, technology and facilities for students, as well as extra-curricular activities, sports, running a small Farm and providing outdoor learning opportunities. The role will build fundraising and volunteering partnerships with the local community, providing sustainable funding for St Piers and the wider campus, in the coming years. Currently St Piers is Surrey’s best kept secret. This role will be instrumental in putting St Piers firmly on the map and winning local and regional support.