You would be leading an experienced and highly effective core management group and a further 150 enthusiastic volunteers who last year fed over 5500 people. You’ll develop a strategy, in line with that of the Trussell Trust, and in liaison with like-minded local organisations, to seek to eliminate food poverty locally.
You’ll need to have worked as an employee or volunteer in a social action charity and be able to bring leadership skills and experience with a collaborative and consultative style. Ability to work effectively with other organisations with similar aims, and to oversee a communications and social media strategy will be essential.
As Chipping Barnet foodbank’s manager responsible to the board of trustees, you would be our first salaried member of staff. As such you would ensure the longer-term resilience and robustness of our operations. We are open for two hours, twice a week and now offer, in addition to essential provisions, fresh food, supermarket and fuel vouchers, support for school uniforms, enabling grants and an in-house Citizens Advice service. You would lead the development of these and other initiatives.
Download an application pack, which includes a person specification along with our Annual Report and an application form, uploadable to the Charity Jobs site by Saturday 30 April.
Initial Zoom interviews (to include a presentation) will be held in mid-May with final interviews taking place a little later when shortlisted candidates will be invited to visit the foodbank to view our operations and to meet some of our core group.
Purpose of the Role
To ensure the resilience and robustness of the Foodbank’s operations consistently to achieve the charity’s mission of “The prevention or relief of poverty in Chipping Barnet and surrounding areas…” and, in liaison with other organisations in the area, and in line with the Trussell Trust’s strategy, to seek to make Chipping Barnet a place where hunger is no longer a problem.
A: Ensuring Resilience and Robustness of the Charity’s Operations.
B: Strategic Development and Direction
C: Quality Assurance, Public Relations, Governance and Sustainability
D: General Duties
You would work normally either at home or at the foodbank premises at Mary Immaculate and St Peter, 63 Somerset Rd, New Barnet EN5 1RF.
There are 25 days paid holiday each year (exclusive of statutory bank holidays) an employer sick pay and a contributory pension scheme.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
If you are looking for a new challenge in a friendly, caring and successful charity, then CEO of Citizens Advice South Lincolnshire may be the one.
We provide free, independent advice to clients across a large rural area, from offices in Spalding, Grantham and Stamford. Last year, we helped over 14,000 people to find a way forward.
As CEO, you will provide strategic leadership and direction, working with the Board to shape the organisation’s strategy, direction, and policies.
You will maintain a strong focus on the needs of the client and the sustainability of the organisation, maximising opportunities for collaboration, service development, and delivery at both local and regional levels. You will ensure that stakeholders continue to view Citizens Advice South Lincolnshire as an important and valued strategic partner within a wider Lincolnshire context, by fostering relationships across diverse sectors.
We seek an individual who will understand the ethos of serving vulnerable clients, lead and inspire a diverse team of paid staff and volunteers, build relationships to maximize core and project funding, and have the financial acumen to optimise the use of resources. Experience of managing multi-site operations would be helpful.
We value our people and foster a supportive, positive environment, with a strong commitment to health and well-being.
This role offers:
Closing Date: 3rd April 2025
Provisional First Interviews: w/c 7 April 2025, Second interviews w/c 14 April 2025
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Centre & Volunteer Supervisor (Driving Licence Required)
Important Note: Only CVs accompanied with a covering letter will be considered.
Job Description
Report to: Head of Food Distribution and Volunteering
Responsible for: Leading the food distribution service and quality assurance at Hackney Foodbank’s allocated Food Distribution Centres located across the borough of Hackney. This includes ensuring all our visitors have a positive experience when collecting their food parcels and are signposted to other provisions appropriately; being responsible for directing the volunteers, working closely with the Head of Food Distribution and Volunteering, Health and Safety, and promoting best practice at each centre. This role will also involve administrative tasks, organising and carrying out home deliveries for visitors, inputting data on visitors’ journeys accurately into a database, driving the Hackney Giving Van occasionally and regularly driving a Luton van to the various Distribution Centres.
Part-time: 25 hours per week, evening and/or weekend work is required
Salary: £27,500 per year (pro-rata for 25 hours per week)
Compulsory: Must have a UK manual driving licence
Specific responsibilities:
· Attend Hackney Foodbank’s Food Distribution Centres to ensure each Centre is run in accordance with HFB’s best practice procedures.
· Treat visitors to the Food Distribution Centres with the utmost respect
· Work with volunteers to ensure a safe and efficient setup, including H&S responsibilities
· Manage all volunteers on site delivering services
· Ensure effective data capture and input onto the system
· Work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure relevant and up-to-date signposting partnerships and referral systems are working efficiently
· Confident in responding to telephone and email inquiries from referral agencies and visitors
· Manage system for home deliveries for visitors who have access issues
Person Specification
Essential:
· Knowledge or experience working or volunteering with adults in crisis, understanding the importance of treating people with dignity and compassion
· Knowledge or experience working or volunteering with support services
· Knowledge or experience of coordinating volunteers
· Ability to work in a team
· Ability to keep a calm head in stressful situations
· Organised and able to manage own workload
· Good administrative skills and attention to detail
· Excellent communication skills, in person, on the telephone and in writing
· Ability to absorb information and relay it to a diverse range of individuals
· Competency in Microsoft Office packages (Excel, Outlook, Word)
· Ability to work with people from disadvantaged, marginalised, or socially excluded backgrounds
· Full UK manual driving licence and good driving experience
· Ability to be flexible in terms of working times and duties
Desirable:
· Safeguarding experience
· H&S Certified
· 1stAid Trained
· Fire Marshall Trained
· Experience of driving a Luton van
· Experience of driving an electric vehicle
We will be interviewing candidates as they apply, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The Volunteer Coordinator and Administrative Assistant role is central to EERN's ability to run a range of activities focused on helping households who have experienced disaplacement to overcome barriers to integration and thrive in our community.
We want to hear from you if you
The volunteer coordination part of this role involves recruiting, training and supporting volunteers. The administrative part of this role involves managing general correspondence, emails and phone enquiries and supporting the team to ensure the smooth running of the EERN office and activities.
To apply, please email your CV and a covering letter explaining why you would be suitable for the role on one side of A4, referring to the detail of the job specification in your answer.
Please email your CV and a covering letter explaining why you would be suitable for the role on one side of A4, referring to the detail of the job and person specification in your answer.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Horsham Matters seeks a visionary CEO to lead our dynamic charity in transforming the lives of those facing poverty and hardship across the Horsham District. As a cornerstone organisation addressing both immediate needs and long‐term solutions, we are looking for an inspiring leader to set our strategic vision, empower our team, and secure sustainable growth across our diverse range of community services.
For over fifteen years, Horsham Matters has been at the heart of the community, dedicated to preventing and relieving poverty by providing essential food supplies, expert advice, and holistic support to those in need. As a Christian charity, we are driven by our values of compassion, dignity, and service, ensuring that everyone in crisis receives the help they need, regardless of background or circumstance. We embrace all people regardless of their faith, and this can be seen across our staff and volunteer teams as well as with our clients. We operate a wide range of initiatives designed to address both the immediate and long-term challenges faced by individuals and families experiencing hardship.
Through our committed team of 17 staff and wide network of volunteers and supporters, we deliver a range of innovative projects including our mobile "Hub on the Move", which takes vital support directly into local communities, ensuring that people who may struggle to access traditional services can still receive the help they need. We also run an expanding network of foodbank sessions, which provide not just emergency food parcels but also wraparound services such as budgeting advice, energy support, and signposting to other agencies. Our community cafés offer warm spaces where people can access affordable meals, social connections, and guidance in a welcoming and non-judgmental environment. Beyond food provision, we are committed to early intervention, working to address the root causes of poverty through advocacy, training, and targeted support services.
As we build on this strong foundation, we are seeking a CEO who can skilfully balance strategic leadership with hands-on operational management, fostering collaboration across all areas of the charity. This role is about more than just overseeing services, it’s about driving innovation, securing long-term sustainability, and ensuring that our programmes continue to evolve in response to the changing needs of our community. With increasing demand for our services and the need to diversify funding streams, we want to grow to deliver more impact for our community. The incoming CEO will play a pivotal role in making this vision a reality, shaping the future of Horsham Matters and strengthening our ability to provide life-changing support to those who need it most.
Key details:
Job title: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) – Horsham Matters
Location: Horsham, with up to 1 day per week working from home
Salary: £55,000 – £60,000 Contract: Permanent, full-time
Key Responsibilities:
Key Skills and Experience:
If you would like to receive an Information Pack for this role with details on how to apply, please send an expression of interest and (optional but appreciated) a CV or professional profile in confidence to our consultant, Jenny Hills at via the apply button. For an informal and confidential conversation about this position, please contact Jenny at the above address with suitable times to speak.
Sutton Community Works (SCW) is a Christian charity in South London. Our vision is for our faith in action projects to contribute to a safe and flourishing community in Sutton.
Our work focuses on areas including food poverty, young people, rough sleepers and homelessness. In all our work, our ethos is to love God and others in all we do and say, ensuring people feel seen, heard, understood, and helped.
The Community Food Shop enables Sutton residents who are living with food insecurity to have weekly access to healthy and helpful food, with around 110 households visiting each week.
People visiting the shop come from a vast variety of backgrounds but all have faced difficult life experiences. Beyond food, we also want people to access support to improve their situation, so we pay Citizens Advice to come to the shop every week and provide advice on topics such as housing, debt and benefits.
And as a Christian project we underpin everything with prayer and actively offer prayer to our customers too. The community is real at the Food Shop, and the genuine care and compassion that our 40+ volunteers offer keeps people coming back and building trusting relationships with us.
As one customer said: "Thank you to all the volunteers for their love and support. Being able to feed my family with help from the Food Shop has changed my life."
As the Community Food Shop Stock Coordinator, you can use your hardworking and organised nature to help feed people in need in Sutton. You will:
Salary: £27,000 per annum pro rata (plus 5% pension commencing from successful completion of probation period).
Hours: 21.5 per week
Working Pattern as below (with occasional working outside of these times)
Monday 9:30am – 12:00pm*
*On alternate weeks, these 2.5 hours are worked on a Thursday or Friday morning.
Tuesday None
Wednesday 9:00am – 5:30pm
Thursday 12:00pm – 5:30pm
Friday 12:00pm – 5:30pm
Annual Leave: 28 days per annum pro rata, including bank holidays
Location: Based at the Community Food Shop in the St Nicholas Centre in Sutton (SM1 1AY), with occasional travel to the office (Highfield Hall, 320 Carshalton Road, SM5 3QB) and other local places to collect food.
Occupational Requirements: This role involves offering and participating in Christian prayer with members of the public and volunteers, leading devotions and group prayer, and providing pastoral care and supervision to volunteers. It is therefore an occupational requirement for the post-holder to be a practicing Christian.
This role also involves buying/transporting food multiple days per week, therefore it is a requirement that the post-holder is a driver with access to a safe vehicle they are insured to drive for work purposes.
We are looking for someone who:
Please note aforementioned occupational requirements.
Closing date: 30th March 2025
For fuller job description and tasks involved, please download the document 'Community Food Shop Stock Coordinator - March 2025'.
In your covering letter, please explain why you think you could be the person we are looking for, based on the information provided.
Not quite the right role for you? We are recruiting other roles in this project too - see our Organisation Profile for all current vacancies.
Please note that we are unable to sponsor visas for this position.
Registered Charity
6 - 10
We want our faith in action projects to contribute to a safe and flourishing community in Sutton
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Sutton Community Works (SCW) is a Christian charity in South London. Our vision is for our faith in action projects to contribute to a safe and flourishing community in Sutton.
Our work focuses on areas including food poverty, young people, rough sleepers and homelessness. In all our work, our ethos is to love God and others in all we do and say, ensuring people feel seen, heard, understood, and helped.
The Community Food Shop enables Sutton residents who are living with food insecurity to have weekly access to healthy and helpful food, with around 110 households visiting each week.
People visiting the shop come from a vast variety of backgrounds but all have faced difficult life experiences. Beyond food, we also want people to access support to improve their situation, so we pay Citizens Advice to come to the shop every week and provide advice on topics such as housing, debt and benefits.
And as a Christian project we underpin everything with prayer and actively offer prayer to our customers too. The community is real at the Food Shop, and the genuine care and compassion that our 40+ volunteers offer keeps people coming back and building trusting relationships with us.
As one customer said: "Thank you to all the volunteers for their love and support. Being able to feed my family with help from the Food Shop has changed my life."
As the Community Food Shop Saturday Supervisor, you can use your people skills, organised nature and attention to detail to help feed people in need and provide a safe and welcoming environment. You will:
Will you come and join this amazing project?!
Salary: £27,000 per annum pro rata (plus 5% pension commencing from successful completion of probation period).
Hours: 7.5 per week
Working Pattern as below (with occasional working outside of these times).
Saturday 9:00am – 5:00pm*
*Roughly once per month, the finish time will instead be 2:30pm and the remaining 2.5 hours will be worked on a Monday morning (9:30-12) to join staff meetings.
In addition, if agreed with the Food Shop Manager, it is possible for some Saturday afternoon tasks to be completed on Mondays or Tuesdays instead.
Annual Leave: 28 days per annum pro rata, including bank holidays
Location: This role is based at the Community Food Shop in the St Nicholas Centre in Sutton (SM1 1AY), with occasional travel to the office (Highfield Hall, 320 Carshalton Road, SM5 3QB).
Occupational Requirement: This role involves offering and participating in Christian prayer with members of the public and volunteers, leading devotions and group prayer, and providing pastoral care and supervision to volunteers. It is therefore an occupational requirement for the post-holder to be a practicing Christian.
We are looking for someone who:
Please note aforementioned occupational requirement.
Closing date: 30th March 2025
For fuller job description and tasks involved, please download the document 'Community Food Shop Saturday Supervisor - March 2025'.
In your covering letter, please explain why you think you could be the person we are looking for, based on the information provided.
Not quite the right role for you? We are recruiting other roles in this project too - see our Organisation Profile for all current vacancies.
Please note that we are unable to sponsor visas for this position.
Registered Charity
6 - 10
We want our faith in action projects to contribute to a safe and flourishing community in Sutton
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Feed The Hungry UK is an international charity supporting projects across the world and locally focused on supporting Coventry Foodbank, and other projects across Hinckley, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
We are a Christian organisation with the aim to follow Christ’s call to fulfil the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of people in crisis. Our values are based on our Christian heritage with a desire to be an organisation that acts in ways that reflect Christian values.
Main responsibilities.
Ensure the accuracy and completeness of all internal and external financial processing and reporting and full compliance with all covenants, laws and regulations, including Charity Commission, HMRC and Companies House regulations.
Lead, motivate, develop and train the finance team, promoting an equal, diverse and inclusive team with a positive culture reflecting the values of Feed The Hungry.
Ensure Feed The Hungry operates sound financial, risk management, and internal control systems and maintains up-to-date Financial Regulations to safeguard stakeholders' interests and assets and to ensure the integrity of the organisation’s financial performance and statements.
Provide effective day-to-day oversight of the organisation’s financial controls and financial performance including keeping financial policies up to date and in line with our processes.
As Company Secretary, support governance activities, including administration for board meetings, trustee enquiries and administrative duties for the board.
Be alert to all organisational activities that have a financial impact and speedily assess the impact of such activities.
In partnership with the CEO and Directors, develop and support in the delivery of the organisation's strategic plan and the related budgets and forecasts.
Ensure preparation and presentation of accurate and timely financial data including strategic plans, budgets, management accounts, live forecasts, and financial data and monitoring requested by funders.
Provide commercial business support to advise the CEO and Directors on the financial position and risks and opportunities of Feed the Hungry.
Financial oversight of contract negotiations (utilities, insurance)
Proactively develop strong working relationships with FTH managers providing constructive challenge and commercial insight in support of the strategy. Be proactive in challenging the status quo and be prepared to bring new ideas that will enhance the organisation’s activities and returns.
Administrative responsibility for oversight of the externally appointed auditors and the successful completion of annual audited financial statements and the annual report, and timely submission to the Trustees.
Maintain an ongoing dialogue with the CEO and Directors and the external auditors.Responsible for the Company's Finance, Tax, Pensions, Audit, and Payroll.
General Duties:
Adhere to all company policies and procedures and recommend changes as appropriate.
Attend all mandatory training required to complete and maintain your role, ensuring you keep up to date with changes to specific laws and legislation that are relevant to your role
Person Specification
Educational Requirements
Knowledge
Experience
Skills & Aptitudes
Personal Attributes
Agree and support the values and vision of Feed the Hungry and the charity’s Christian ethos.
Flexibility in working patterns around the vicissitudes of the workload (especially around reporting deadlines)
As part of the management team able to problem solve and develop new strategies for the charity.
Ability to work unsupervised.
Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines believes in getting the job done.
Honesty and integrity
Values all the people who come into contact with or work with Feed the Hungry
Hours, Holidays, Location
37.5 hours.
Holidays 25 days (full-time contracts) per annum + statutory bank holidays.
All other terms and conditions as set out in Feed the Hungry’s standard contract of employment
Based at Halo Centre, Coventry with the flexibility to work occasionally from home.
TOIL may be taken to compensate for additional hours worked. Overtime is not normally paid with this contract.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Feed The Hungry’s mission is to move people from Survival to Stability, to Sustainability and to Significance.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Sutton Community Works (SCW) is a Christian charity in South London. Our vision is for our faith in action projects to contribute to a safe and flourishing community in Sutton.
Our work focuses on areas including food poverty, young people, rough sleepers and homelessness. In all our work, our ethos is to love God and others in all we do and say, ensuring people feel seen, heard, understood, and helped.
The Community Food Shop enables Sutton residents who are living with food insecurity to have weekly access to healthy and helpful food, with around 110 households visiting each week.
People visiting the shop come from a vast variety of backgrounds but all have faced difficult life experiences. Beyond food, we also want people to access support to improve their situation, so we pay Citizens Advice to come to the shop every week and provide advice on topics such as housing, debt and benefits.
And as a Christian project we underpin everything with prayer and actively offer prayer to our customers too. The community is real at the Food Shop, and the genuine care and compassion that our 40+ volunteers offer keeps people coming back and building trusting relationships with us.
As one customer said: "Thank you to all the volunteers for their love and support. Being able to feed my family with help from the Food Shop has changed my life."
As Community Food Shop Manager, you can use your leadership experience, excellent communication and organisational skills and Christian faith in a way that makes a real difference in people's lives.
Could you come and lead this amazing project?!
Salary: £32,000 per annum pro rata (plus 5% pension commencing from successful completion of probation period).
Hours: 22.5 per week
Working Pattern: Monday – Friday, 9am – 1:30pm. Occasional afternoon, Saturday or evening working depending on the needs of the charity and the project.
Annual Leave: 28 days per annum pro rata, including bank holidays
Location: It is expected that at least 60% of time will be on site at the Community Food Shop (in the St Nicholas Centre, Sutton, SM1 1AY) or at the office (Highfield Hall, 320 Carshalton Road, SM5 3QB). Other time may be worked from home pending agreement with line manager.
Occupational Requirement: This role involves offering and participating in Christian prayer with members of the public and volunteers, leading devotions and group prayers, and providing pastoral care and faith-based leadership to Christian staff and volunteers. It is therefore an occupational requirement for the post-holder to be a practicing Christian.
Role purpose is to:
We are looking for someone who:
Closing date: 30th March 2025
For fuller job description and tasks involved, please download the document 'Community Food Shop Manager - March 2025'.
In your covering letter, please explain why you think you could be the person we are looking for, based on the information provided.
Not quite the right role for you? We are recruiting other roles in this project too - see our Organisation Profile for all current vacancies.
Please note that we are unable to sponsor visas for this position.
When writing your covering letter, please refer to the full job description document 'Community Food Shop Manager - March 2025' and explain to us why you think you are the person we are looking for.
Registered Charity
6 - 10
We want our faith in action projects to contribute to a safe and flourishing community in Sutton
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
