Overview
For every suicide, an estimated 135 people are impacted and at heightened risk themselves. Peer support is vital for improving outcomes and creating hope for bereaved people, but we can't provide this life‑saving service on public generosity alone. That’s where you come in!
What difference will you make?
In the UK, around one million people are affected by suicide loss each year. 60% of those people will think about suicide too, but the support bereaved people receive is devastatingly limited. We believe no one should face this grief alone.
SoBS is the only national charity providing timely and unlimited peer‑support, but we are a small team with limited resources, and we receive no statutory funding. We rely entirely on grants and public generosity to provide our vital, life‑saving service, and we need your support to reach people in need.
Your grant‑writing skills will ensure we can support people in their loss, when and where they need us, and be there for them for as long as they need our support. This role will be crucial in sustaining our ability to provide hope and belonging for people, and ultimately, it will save lives.
What are we looking for?
We're looking for someone who is motivated and driven to make a difference, with proven experience of successfully writing bids for grant funding. You'll have great communication, IT, and research skills, plus the ability to identify great funding opportunities and tailor your message to each funder's goals and priorities. An understanding of the funding landscape for community‑based projects in the charity sector would be ideal too!
You don't have to have been impacted by suicide loss to support us, but we hope you'd have an empathetic and compassionate point of view.
What will you be doing?
You'll focus on supporting our team with writing local and national grant applications, identifying relevant funding opportunities, and using compelling storytelling to craft high‑impact proposals that are tailored to each funder's objectives.
Our close‑knit and passionate team will support you in identifying areas of need, building project plans, and providing you with supportive materials, data, and guidance. You'll also be able to oversee the end‑to‑end process for each bid by tracking submission and reporting deadlines, and following up with our groups and coordinators to create updates for funders on how their support has made a difference.
We hope you'll be able to give us a few hours of your time each week, but we're flexible to your needs and availability.
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