West Northamptonshire Community & Partnerships Coordinator
VIN is working in partnership with West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) to strengthen community coordination, partnership working and VCFSE infrastructure across West Northamptonshire. The Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF) will be an important early focus, but the role is wider: it is about building stronger local partnerships, improving routes into support, and helping the sector contribute to prevention, resilience and community wellbeing.
The post is hosted by VIN and will include embedded working with WNC.
For more information please view the job description here.
To apply, please send your complected application form to becky.thornton@voluntaryimpact.org.uk by Monday 10th August.
HOUSING COURT DUTY WORKER
This post will join our expert Housing Advice Team, providing a weekly court duty service at county courts in Milton Keynes and Peterborough at housing possession hearings. The post will provide on the day advice and representation to individuals who are facing repossession, offering a varied and interesting working week. This post also contributes to the Service’s Housing Team’s casework,
undertaking a small number of housing advice appointments in the Northampton office.
Applications are invited from experienced advisers or candidates with relevant transferable skills and experience who are willing to be trained. Pay will be dependent on experience. Additional training can be provided.
Own transport required.
To apply or to find out more, click here
Community Engagement Facilitator
We have recently been awarded a grant from the Compton Fund. An element of this funding involves outreach to the local community (The Mounts). To meet this need we require the services of a Community Engagement Facilitator. The successful candidate will work Freelance on a short-term contract. Project Duration will be from April 2025 till February 2026. The position is funded for a total of 80 hours @ £20 per hour. Mix of working from home, working with Community Groups in the Mounts and working at 97 Charles Street (The Lab). Previous experience of this role would be useful but is not essential, appropriate skills and enthusiasm for the project will be valued. This role is offered without a detailed job description. Instead, candidates are invited to present their solutions to achieving the required outcomes as part of the interview process. The successful candidate will work with the Project Team to set targets and objectives. The role will include communicating with local groups, online and in person, leading outreach discussions. The desired outcomes to meet our obligations to the Compton Fund have been established as:
1. Devise an engagement programme
2. Create questionnaires & surveys to identify the broad spread of people we can
talk to
3. Establish best methods to engage with community: to include
a. Community Open Days
b. Heritage walks
c. Facilitating communities expressing their story through art, music and written word
4. Design and distribute digital & printed communication
5. Collect and analyse current and ongoing engagement with the project
6. Report on progress using data collected and case studies
For further details on this project, see “97 Charles Street & The Mounts History Project”.
Members of the project team will be happy to answer questions from potential candidates before they submit their applications
Enquiries to: 97charlesst@gmail.com
Nene Vally Care Trust – New Trustees
Now that many of our Trustees and sponsors are retiring after being in role for 15 years, building our new board of trustees is a priority. The Nene Valley Care Trust (NVCT) is a small trust that funds smaller CICs, charities and organisations that do not have the resources to carry out fundraising activities of their own. The Trust is committed to supporting vulnerable young care leavers in the Nene valley areas. Trustees all work for the charity on a voluntary basis.
The Trust faces significant challenges to maintain its sustainability – particularly in terms of income. We are fortunate in having a well established working relationship with a fundraising consultant. He works hard and raises a significant amount on our behalf – perhaps 55% – 65% of the required income.
This means that we need a very active board of trustees that is willing and able to take roles to manage our work and raise funds to fill the gap in our income. All candidates should have time and enthusiasm to offer with particular emphasis on fundraising and administration.
Our working year involves:
- Around 3 board meetings per year. These meetings take place in Northampton and usually last 2 – 2.5 hours. These are important in monitoring our plans, activities and finances.
- Carrying out monitoring meetings with partners and contractors that we fund to work with care leavers – this is to ensure that they are suitably managed to do the work and that they carry out the work and use the funds correctly. Such meetings generally last 1 – 1.5 hours.
- Carrying out fundraising activities which most of our Trustees can be involved in. These activities cover everything from bid writing and organising fundraising events to managing our website and social media.
- Administration which covers a broad range of activities involved with managing our records and activities.
Please view the role information here
If you would like to find out more please email Richard Munro at richard@commsave.co.uk.
