Volunteer Fundraising Assistant - Prospecting

What will you be doing?

About Babylon Project Babylon Project is a grassroots organisation which provides creative activities by and for young people from asylum seeking, refugee and migrant backgrounds. We run workshops in art, storytelling, drama, film-making and photography, and aim to enable integration into life in the UK through boosting the young people’s confidence and providing them with tools to express themselves.  About the role: Babylon Project is looking for a volunteer who could contribute a few hours a week to helping us achieve our fundraising goals. Key tasks will include:

Researching new funding opportunities and helping to build a pipeline of trusts, foundations and awards that we are eligible to apply for Keeping on top of upcoming deadlines and application requirements Drafting reports for funders at the end of grant periods

The Fundraising Volunteer will work with our Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser, and support and be supported by the Core Team of Babylon Project staff. 

What are we looking for?

A proven track record of effective fundraising from charitable trusts and foundations Excellent research and time management skills Desire to meet targets and ability to work flexibly towards those targets Understanding or experience of the refugee sector, and/or working with young people Ability to use own initiative, plan and manage own workload and support others A confident communicator, able to turn complex project information into persuasive fundraising content for a variety of audiences Commitment to, understanding and sensitive communication of our work and values Enthusiastic and positive attitude; high degree of accuracy and attention to detail Excellent IT skills Awareness of GDPR and data protection issues

What difference will you make?

We are at in a very exciting place in our journey, having grown rapidly as an organisation over the past two years. We now run two hubs in London and Stoke-on-Trent, and having delivered 58 workshops for our community since 2022, we now aim to run 48 in the next year.  Sustainable growth relies on sustainable sources of funding, to make sure we are able to reach out to more young people, keep developing amazing programmes, and develop our team. Your contribution will help us to continue our development trajectory, to make sure we can both maintain our current projects, and expand our activities. We know the difference that our work can make to young people from asylum seeking, refugee and migrant backgrounds, who are particularly vulnerable to social isolation, and your help will ensure that we can continue to provide for them.