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Where: Durham

What: Rainbow Trust Children's Charity provides practical and emotional support to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness.

Our two respite houses in Surrey and Northumberland provide a break for the whole family, allowing them to spend precious time together as a family.

Rainbow Trust's Family Support Workers join the family in their own home and are there to provide whatever practical support is needed. They may attend hospital appointments with parents, sit by the bedside of the sick child to give parents a break and take worried siblings out for the day.

Rainbow Trust supports families for as long as they need us - from diagnosis, through the illness and beyond.

Volunteer Roles:

Event Support

Main activities:
• Event support, tasks will vary according to the type of event
• Manning fundraising stalls
• Stewarding/marshalling at sports events
• Helping with refreshments
• Registration/information stands
• Selling raffle tickets
• Helping at cash collections

Administration Support

Main activities:
• Helping out with general office tasks, such as filing, photocopying, laminating, daily franking of the post
• Assist with the opening of the post
• Acknowledging donations by preparing and sending out thank you letters
• Updating our supporter database
• Assisting with mailshots
• Telesales
• Collating fundraising/information packs
• Assisting the fundraising team with event preparation
• Internet based research

Collections Co-ordinator

Main activities:
• Managing the static collection box and cash collection processes for Rainbow Trust
• Sourcing venues for street collections and securing permissions/permits
• Recruit a team of volunteer collectors to support our street collections calendar
• Manage a team of collectors at each cash collection
• After each collection send a thank you to the volunteers with the total raised
• Keeping an accurate record of income generated through both static boxes and street collections
• Send regular updates to all collection volunteers on income and future Rainbow events

Skills/benefits/experience:

What you can expect from the role:
• Rainbow Trust will provide you with the training you need to feel comfortable in the role
• One to one support
• Two way informal review will take place after 3 months in the role and then every six months
• Reimbursement of out of pocket expenses where appropriate
• The opportunity to develop new and existing skills and gain work
• Gain fundraising experience