* Build relationships with the wider community, including groups, organisations and businesses
* Create engaging, child and family-friendly activities to attract visitors to engage with Visyon at events
* Increase fundraising opportunities at community events
What difference will you make?
By giving your time and skills, you'll play a direct role in helping more young people — and the communities around them — get the support they need to thrive. You'll strengthen relationships with our incredible supporters, inspire greater community engagement, and unlock vital funding that makes life-changing mental health and emotional wellbeing support possible.
What are we looking for?
* Experience in community engagement, public‑facing roles or events
* Children's mental health, wellbeing or youth services
* Interacting with diverse groups of people
* Experience with public speaking
* Local community networks in Cheshire East
* Flexible and have availability during evenings, weekend and school holidays
* Friendly, approachable and confident speaking with members of the public
* Comfortable engaging children, young people and families from a wide range of backgrounds and communities, including those who may be under‑represented or harder to reach
* Positive, flexible and enthusiastic in community environments
* Involved in hobbies, interests and pastimes that could inspire creative or niche fundraising activities and help attract different supporter groups.
* Able to represent Visyon's values in public settings
* Reliable and willing to support basic set‑up/pack‑down tasks
* Able to uphold safeguarding, confidentiality and data‑protection expectations
What will you be doing?
The Community & Fundraising Events Volunteer helps to extend Visyon's visibility and reach by offering warm, friendly and practical support at events across the region. Responsibilities may include
* Attending community events across Cheshire East on behalf of Visyon
* Welcoming members of the public and helping them understand what Visyon does, how young people can access support and how they can support Visyon
* Running simple, engaging activities (crafts, games, wellbeing activities) to encourage participation and start conversations
* Supporting small‑scale fundraising activities as part of community events (e.g. bucket collections, raffles, activity donations)
* Recording basic footfall and engagement information to help Visyon understand the impact of events
* Building positive relationships with community groups, schools, local businesses and the wider public to generate fundraising and awareness opportunities
* Interacting confidently and respectfully with diverse groups, including communities who may experience marginalisation or barriers to accessing support
* Representing Visyon in a friendly, professional and values‑aligned manner
* Passing on queries or follow‑up needs to the appropriate Visyon staff member
* Helping pack, set up and/or tidy away Visyon resources as part of event participation
* Maintaining confidentiality, safeguarding and safe practice at all times.
This role is varied and may involve being outdoors, standing for periods of time and working in busy public environments.
We do not promote lone working and volunteers will always be paired with at least one Visyon staff member or another volunteer at events.