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.
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.
The 5th of December is the International Volunteer Day. ActivLives highly recognised the contributions that volunteers bring to the charity with the support they provide in delivering its projects and services. Today’s celebration is about volunteers’ commitment and dedication in bringing communities and people together for a shared cause. Thank you volunteers. Watch the video:
The local charity ActivLives kicked off its Love to Move programme with a free taster event on 25th November at the Trimley Sports and Social Club, Felixstowe. It’s an exercise to help older people with dementia, Parkinson’s and other forms of cognitive impairment to get active and have a regular weekly physical activity.
Love to Move, is a ground-breaking programme, the first of its kind in the UK pioneered by the British Gymnastics Foundation and an official legacy programme of the 2022 World Gymnastics Championships. The exercise programme is specially designed to get older people moving and functioning better. Its website promotes it as an exercise programme that engages participants with simple hand movements set to music, and has been shown to help improve their mobility, strength, and flexibility. This is only one of the several exercise programmes that ActivLives offers for older people with health problems. In June this year, the charity started its BreatheFit session in Ipswich and Felixstowe. It is a physical exercise for people living with a diagnosed respiratory condition. The list and information of the other programmes can be found at activlives.org.uk.
People who are interested to join the Love to Move programme will participate in a regular weekly session every Monday from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM at the Trimley Sports and Social Club, High Road, Trimley St Martin, Felixstowe, IP11 0RJ. To register, you may contact ActivLives at 01473 345350.
It’s beginning to look like Christmas for the local Ipswich charity ActivLives. The residents of Ipswich are invited to join its upcoming Christmas wreath making workshop and share some cheers and creativity. The workshop will be held at the Cress Pavilion at Halifax Road, IP2 8RE. It will take place this coming Saturday 7th of December from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Registration fee is £10. To book a place for this joyful community activity, please contact ActivLives at 01473 345350. This season’s workshop is part of the charity’s ActivBlooms, a floristry project working alongside volunteers on site, to plan, grow and arrange the dedicated cut flowers into seasonal arrangements. It delivers in-house and outreach flower workshops to the local community.
A big win for local charity, ActivLives, at the recently concluded Active Suffolk Awards 2024. The CEO of ActivLives, Julie Stokes, has won the Activity Champion of the Year award and its exercise programme BreatheFit received a Runner Up recognition.
Julie Stokes won the category for leading the charity in over a decade and for proving that women can lead and make a big difference in the sector by advocating and implementing programmes and services that promote physical and mental wellbeing in Suffolk through an inclusive sports and effective chair-based exercise programmes.
Her leadership was recognised for conducting sports activities and physical exercises that benefit young and older people with mental health needs and learning disabilities in the county. The Awards also commended her for encouraging people from all walks of life to get involved in the community.
Meanwhile, ActivLives, BreatheFit programme in Felixstowe and Ipswich was a Runner Up awardee for The Innovative Project of the Year for helping people with respiratory conditions to improve their physical health by participating in regular weekly sessions. It was also recognised for creating a community with its members that helped boost their social and mental wellbeing.
The Active Suffolk Awards is an annual event that honours the best of Suffolk’s sporting talent and celebrating people and organisations that supported local communities through physical activity & sport.
The Mayor of Ipswich, Councillor Elango Elavalakan, celebrated with 117 volunteers, members, staff, partners, and supporters for local charity ActivLives’ Annual General Meeting (AGM) on the 14th of November at the Kesgrave Community and Conference Centre. This year’s event highlighted the important role of volunteers and the impact it has on their own health and well-being as well as the people and communities they support across Ipswich and Suffolk, through the charity’s inclusive sports, gardening and exercise programmes and hubs.
Three dedicated volunteers who have given their time and commitment with ActivLives for over a decade were honoured at the annual meeting. One of the volunteers, Anita Bimpson, who was recognised has been helping the charity’s St Mary at Stoke Lunch Club. She has been serving local men and women in Ipswich with care, support and meals for 16 years. “I’ve seen people’s lives changed, as they grow, as they come and as they made friends. Our lunch club is very much like a family,” she said.
It is ActivLives 11th AGM, since it became a Charity in 2012, promoting health and wellbeing in Ipswich and Suffolk’s local communities and organisations. CEO Julie Stokes shared how volunteering and team effort kept the charity delivering services that make a difference in people’s lives.
“We have experienced ‘change’ and ‘challenge times’, but I have an amazing team of caring, passionate, enthusiastic and experienced staff and a wonderful team of dedicated and loyal volunteers across the organisation, who work exceptionally hard to keep our services running”, she said. She also thanked everyone involved in the charity for their support, generosity and feedback.
ActivLives looks forward to developing existing partnerships, building new relationships with funders, supporters, donors and growing ActivLives services to reach more people and communities in the coming year.
Notes to Editor: ActivLives delivers innovative and impactful health and well-being programmes to communities in Suffolk. We work in collaboration with the NHS, Public Health Suffolk, local authorities, voluntary services, schools and other agencies, feeding into local, regional and national strategies, ensuring our services address the needs of the community and partner groups. ActivLives encourages everyone, of any age or capability, to lead an active, healthy lifestyle, through volunteering, work experience, learning and training at our community gardens and outreach projects, ActivSheds woodworking project, health walks, seated/standing exercise, lunch clubs and community events.)
