North Berwick Coastal Community Connections is a charity tackling social isolation in the North Berwick Coastal area. NBCCC has funding from the National Lottery Community Fund and the North Berwick Trust. We have five part-time members of staff working with over 40 volunteers and 100+ members.

Our services include the Scone Café weekly drop-in, Befriending, Buddy Walking, a monthly ‘Community Connections’ newsletter, Coffee Connections meet-ups and the Compassionate Community project on death, dying and bereavement.

We are currently recruiting for new Trustees to join the Board. We are particularly looking for a Secretary, Safeguarding Officer and Co-Chair, but roles are negotiable according to the candidate’s background and interests.

Trustees govern the charity. We aim to have a Board which covers the key areas in which we work, and we are now seeking to appoint additional Trustees who, ideally, have experience in any of the following areas:

• Small voluntary organisations
• Charitable Board trustee roles
• Safeguarding of vulnerable adults

That said, we also welcome applications from individuals with other relevant experience. Our Trustees have ultimate responsibility for the operation and development of the charity, including employability, compliance with legislation, fundraising, public relations and financial control.

This is an exciting time to join NBCCC as a Trustee as we launch new partnerships and explore new opportunities to help us respond to the ever-increasing demand for our support.

The principal responsibilities of a Trustee include attending and actively participating in regular Board meetings (usually held on a Tuesday evening, both virtually and face-to-face). Trustees bring their professional experience to help govern the charity and actively support the Project Manager. The time commitment required is a minimum of one day per month, including the Trustee meetings (of 1.5-2 hours per meeting). All Trustees are expected to share a passion and commitment to supporting socially isolated adults in the North Berwick Coastal area. Please note that this is voluntary, although reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.

If you think this opportunity sounds like you and want to help a unique local charity, please join us as a Trustee.

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About you

If you have a passion for producing high-quality patient information that is accessible and engaging, we’d like to hear from you.

As our ideal candidate, you’ll have experience researching content, interpreting complex evidence, writing accessible and engaging information, and liaising with external suppliers. You understand the barriers that prevent people from accessing health information and are committed to progressing equality, diversity and inclusion. You have excellent communication skills and can influence a range of stakeholders, including healthcare professionals. You're calm, consistent, and committed to the values of Crohn's & Colitis UK.

If this sounds like you, we'd love you to join our Knowledge & Information team!

Our location

We are based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, so we are easily accessible by road and rail, but you can work from home if you wish. In addition, we have All Staff Together days at least four times a year, which is a great opportunity for you to meet with the wider team. It is possible therefore you could live almost anywhere in the country. If you want to be considered for the role but are worried about location, talk to us – it may work!

Are you looking for an interim grant-making role with an immediate start? You may be looking for a new position or a short-term secondment opportunity.

We are looking for a Partnership Officer to support our funded partners to address unfair health inequalities and contribute to the successful delivery of our funding programmes.

People’s Health Trust believes in a world without health inequalities. We work to ensure that where you live does not unfairly reduce the length of your life, or the quality of your health.

The Trust’s mission is to address health inequalities in Great Britain and create fairer places in which to grow, live, work and age. Through our funding and support, we support resident-led approaches which have an impact on the socio-economic causes of health inequalities.

This is an exciting time to join the Trust. Through a fixed term contract until the end of 2023, you will be supporting the delivery of our funding programmes and helping to shape future programmes as we move into the second year of our three-year strategy.

Your enthusiasm, knowledge and experience of working with neighbourhoods or community groups to create change will be essential to supporting our current funded partners with sustainability and capacity building. You will draw on your analytical and relationship-building skills, together with an understanding of the needs of community organisations, to ensure funding partnerships are managed effectively.

Working with colleagues across the Trust, you will contribute to the development of our grant programmes and will work collaboratively to share learning internally and externally.

We are committed to being a Disability Confident Employer. Our equalities, diversity and inclusion data shows that we are currently under-represented by certain groups of people. We would particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic communities and disabled people.