Are you interested in a role supporting diverse & interesting communities to
alleviate food crisis and build resilience? Do you love telling compelling
stories to influence funding income? We want to hear from you!
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Fundraiser to join our Team. To realise
this ambition and maintain a sustainable organisation, the annual fundraised income
£350,000 needs to be sustained.
Through this new organisational role, you will proactively create and grow
fundraising income, gain support from grant giving trusts and foundations as well as
corporate organisations across the region.
Through your fundraising expertise, you will have a proven track record of growing
income and building relationships with trusts, foundations, and corporate partners to
achieve and exceed annual income targets. You will have the capacity to develop
compelling funding proposals that successfully engage key partners and attract
donations.
To support the fundraising ambition and to celebrate successes, you will have an
active role in promoting, marketing, and advertising the Foodbank though various
media channels.
With your attention to detail and strong organisational skills, you will help us grow
income and strengthen partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
• You will develop and implement a fundraising strategy which aligns to the Foodbanks
core objectives.
• Through excellent, comprehensive, and considered research, you
will identify and prioritise a pool of potential grant giving trusts and foundations
funders for Blackburn Foodbank. You will forge relationships with those
funders, develop and submit timely and successful funding applications.• You will manage the ongoing relationships with grant giving trusts and
foundations funders and do all you can to maximise potential for further funding by
ensuring they receive excellent stewardship and timely reporting
• You will proactively identify, engage, and build good relationships with prospective
corporate donors, successfully securing them as funding partners. Alongside
this you’ll deepen engagement and grow our relationships and partnerships with
existing corporate donors.
• Working with colleagues in the Foodbank, you’ll develop authentic,
compelling, creative, and winning funding and partnership proposals that can
successfully engage grant giving trusts, foundations and corporate partners and that
can successfully align our vision and work with their needs, motivations, areas of
interests and values.
• You will work collaboratively with other Trussell food banks across the northwest
region, identifying and progressing opportunities for joint funding proposals
and partnerships.
• You will develop, monitor, and manage a fundraising portfolio capable of
generating in excess of £350,000 per annum. You will build and establish a
fundraising pipeline, including a range of KPI’s that can be tracked and that will
enable you to make informed projections regarding future income. You will report
progress to the Trustees on a quarterly basis.
• You will forge strong relationships with colleagues across the wider Trussell network,
sharing best practice and learning from other charities across the network. You
will proactively take advantage of any fundraising training and skills development
opportunities and engage with any joint fundraising opportunities.
• You will proactively identify and engage with media opportunities to
promote, market, and advertise the Foodbank, it’s services and its successes.
• You will ensure a database of funders and grant applications is created and
maintained.
Skills
• You will have good, established experience of trusts and foundations fundraising as
well as corporate partnerships fundraising.
• With excellent written and verbal communication and relationship management skills,
you will be able to inspire and motivate new and existing funders.
• You will have experience of setting, managing and reporting against fundraising
targets.
• You will be tenacious and able to embrace, develop and shape a new role. You’ll be
well organised, proactive, and a self-starter who is able to self-motivate.
• You will be able to demonstrate empathy for people from disadvantaged,
marginalised or socially excluded backgrounds
• You will have understanding and knowledge of the workings of all types of media and
the ability to use these for fundraising purposes.
• You will be a strong team player.
APPLICATION BY CV AND COVERING LETTER BY 11TH JUNE 2026, 3PM
