Jan 15, 2025 | ActivLives
Job Advert
Post: Partnership & Fundraiser Officer
Salary: £14 per hour – 22.5 hours per week (approx. £16,425 pa)
Duration: Initially a one-year contract from April 2025 to March 2026
(with a view to extending dependent upon successful funding outcomes)
Place of work: Ipswich and East Suffolk / Flexible working
Closing Date: 5pm on the 29/01/25
Interview Date: TBC
ActivLives has been delivering a wide range of activities and projects for over 17 years to help people improve their health & well-being, keep connected with their community and provide opportunities for learning and volunteering.
We are seeking an experienced part-time Partnership & Fundraiser Officer who is passionate about the services and activities that ActivLives delivers. Someone who would enjoy the chance to shape, grow and organise fundraising initiatives from the ground up which will make a real difference to people’s lives and build strong relationships with our members, their families, donors, Corporates and local business, philanthropists and the general public to help fund ActivLives work in Ipswich and East Suffolk. This will be an exciting opportunity, with a well-established charity, to develop this new Partnership & Fundraiser post to help secure unrestricted funding, to enable ActivLives to continue to deliver our much-needed services and develop new projects now and in the future.
We are looking for someone with:
- Experience of charity fundraising and partnership working
- Proven experience of generating £50k to £100k+ income per year
- Outstanding organisational, interpersonal, relationship-building abilities and skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, including strong presentation skills and the ability to bring together key stakeholders to collaborate on a project
- Knowledge and experience of event management and budgets
- A self-motivated, proactive and professional approach to their work
- Positive outlook and able to work to deadlines
For more information about the post please call Julie Stokes or Cynthia Glinos at the ActivLives main office on 01473 345350.
Click Job Description for more details
Please access the application forms by clicking this: ActivLives Application Form
Email completed application form to cynthia@activlives.org.uk or post to ActivLives, Brightspace, 160 Hadleigh Road, Ipswich IP2 0HH (FAO Cynthia Glinos)
See www.activlives.org.uk for more information about ActivLives services and projects.
Jan 10, 2025 | ActivGardens
The ActivGardens, ActivLives charity’s programme, is offering two free courses that will begin in February this year. The two courses Grow Your Future and Grow Your Wellbeing are for anyone aged 16 and above.
The Grow Your Future course will run at two locations. One is at the Chantry Walled Garden, Chantry Park, Hadleigh Road, IP2 0BS every Tuesday at 9:30am–2:30pm from 11th February until 29th April 2025. And the other venue is at the People’s Community Garden, Halifax Road, IP2 8RE from 12th February until 30th April 2025 9:30 am to 2:30 pm every Wednesday. This course will help participants learn about gardening, horticulture and nature conservation in the safe, welcoming and inspiring community gardens. An open day for the course will be held on Tuesday 21st January 2025, 10am-2pm at Chantry Walled Garden and Wednesday 22nd January 2025, 10am-2pm at The People’s Community Garden.
The Grow Your Wellbeing – Sudbury and Great Cornard course will run from 10th February until 28th April 2025 every Monday from 10am–12:30pm at the Belle Vue Park, Newton Road in Sudbury. These fun, social, welcoming sessions will be tailored towards personal goals such as: developing practical skills, supporting wellbeing, building your confidence, getting closer to nature, finding a sense of community and meeting new people. There will be an open day on 20th January from 10:00am – 12pm at the same venue in Sudbury.
To join these courses or find out more, please contact Project Manager Susannah Robirosa on 07530 407302 or email susannah@activlives.org.uk or call ActivLives on 01473 345350.
Jan 8, 2025 | ActivHubs
ActivLives, East Suffolk Council and Babergh Mid Suffolk Council collaborate for a free 12-week Strength and Balance Programme. This is for people who experienced fall or feel unsteady on their feet and aged 65 and over. There will be weekly sessions in various locations in Suffolk namely: East Bergholt, Holbrook, Felixstowe, Woodbridge, Leiston and Saxmundham.
The Strength and Balance session in Holbrook will start on 3rd February with the following weekly schedule: every Monday, 1:30pm – 3pm at the Holbrook Village Hall, The Street, Holbrook, Ipswich, IP9 2PZ.
Participants will get the following benefits from the programme: 12 free strength and balance sessions, work with qualified OTAGO specialist qualified instructors and exercise to improve, gait, coordination, strength & confidence.
If you want to refer someone, you may call ActivLives on 01473 345350 for more details. You may also speak to a health professional to submit a referral on your behalf. Or submit a self- referral on this link: www.activesuffolk.org/strength-and-balance.
Jan 6, 2025 | ActivSinging
The local charity ActivLives is holding a free taster session to reorganise its ActivSingers Ipswich group which will have a new venue and day. The event will be held on the 14th February from 10am to 12 noon at the Pinewood Community Hall, Laburnum Close, Pinewood, Ipswich IP8 3SL. New members are welcome to join and no experience in reading music is needed.
The charity has been organising group singing sessions with its Woodbridge venue twice a month on a Friday morning from 10am – 12 noon at the Quay Church, Quay St, Woodbridge IP12 1BX. The Woodbridge ActivSingers group serenaded the charity’s audience at its annual general meeting in November.
ActivSingers programme brings people together in a fun and social way and offers members the opportunity to make new friends, help reduce stress and boost their self-confidence through songs.
For anyone who is interested to join the ActivSingers group, please contact Julie Stokes on 01473 345350 or visit the charity’s website: activlives.org.uk.
Dec 11, 2024 | ActivSports
ActivLives received a generous support from another local charity in Ipswich. Heartbeat, a self-help group started by people in Ipswich and East Suffolk, donated £1000 to ActivLives’ BreatheFit programme on the 10th December 2025. ActivAgeing Development Officer Frazier Seager received the cheque from Terry and Lynn Osbourne who are involved with Heartbeat during the ActivBowls session at the Gainsborough Sports Centre.
The donated funds will be a big help for ActivLives ‘BreatheFit’ project, which supports people in the community of Ipswich and East Suffolk living with respiratory and cardiac conditions. Currently, there four different sessions of BreatheFit in various venues in Ipswich, Leiston, Felixstowe and Stowmarket.
Heartbeat is a self-help group started by people in Ipswich and East Suffolk in October 1987 to provide support and information to those within the region who have heart problems.
