About Us
Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) is dedicated to supporting innovation in patient care at Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie hospitals. Whether it’s treatment for an emergency, acute condition, pregnancy, or long-term illness, we believe that every patient deserves the highest quality of care available. Thanks to the immensely generous support of our community, Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie hospitals can provide a level of patient care beyond that which can be delivered by NHS funding alone. Charitable donations fund high-tech equipment, specialist staff, extra comforts, and vital research to find potential cures and help save lives locally, nationally, and worldwide. We need your help to raise awareness of how people can help make our hospitals, Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie, even better.
By setting up a group you can be involved in events throughout the year at times to suit you; we only ask that you commit to three activities per year.
Gather your friends, family or colleagues and with your help we want to ensure that every patient experiences the best possible outcome and the highest quality of care available. Setting up a Fundraising Committee is a great way to meet new people and gaining a real sense of being part of something that really makes a difference.
Responsibilities will include:
As a Fundraising Committee for ACT, you will collectively arrange your local fundraising group.
The group can be as large as you wish but should be no smaller than 3 members. The group must be made up of Chair, Treasurer and Secretary. The Chair and Treasurer must not be related.
You will organise and manage local fundraising volunteers, meetings, events, collections and keep group members up to date with news and events. You choose the fundraising events that you wish to run. Typical fundraising events that you may run include sponsored walks, quiz night, fundraising dinners, collections, bring and buy sales.
What we will do for you:
Here at ACT, we support all our volunteers, and we’ll give you as much help and advice as you need to set up and run your group.
We can:
- Come along to your first meeting to provide support and reassurance
- Provide template posters to promote your meetings and events
- Support applications for licences for street collections
- Provide template letters for local businesses re raffle prizes/bag packs, etc.
- Provide template press release to help promote your events
- Share your events and successes on social media and on our website
- Signpost other fundraisers and supporters in your area towards your group
Roles
Visit the headers below to see the descriptions and key duties for each role.
ACT Fundraising Committee – Chair
About the Role
As the chair of the committee, you will set up and manage your local fundraising committee. You will organise and manage local fundraising volunteers, meetings, events, collections and keep group members up to date with news and events. Typical fundraising events that you may run include sponsored walks; quiz night; fundraising dinners; collections and bring and buy sales.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain relationships with local networks, socials groups, schools and businesses, and encourage them to support your local events.
- Maintaining regular communication with the ACT fundraising team and liaising with them regarding all events in your area.
- Make sure fundraising policies and procedures are in place and followed.
- Be a passionate, local ambassador for ACT’s work.
- Ensuring income raised from events is banked in a timely manner.
- Recruit new members to your committee.
Key Skills
- Able to generate enthusiasm.
- Good communication and team-building skills.
- Able to motivate people.
- We are looking for people who are passionate about helping make Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie hospitals even better.
- Project and event management experience, in particular, someone who can remotely organise and manage a group of volunteer fundraisers.
ACT Fundraising Committee – Treasurer
About the role
This role involves supporting your local fundraising committee to manage the funds they have raised to support ACT. You will be part of a team of like-minded people, helping to maintain the accuracy of the team’s financial records. A beneficial role for people looking to expand their skills in accountancy or share them to support a charity. As treasurer, you will have day-to-day responsibility for looking after your committee group’s money. However, the committee as a whole is responsible for deciding how funds will be raised, and ACT will oversee that funds raised are spent as is required by the needs of Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie hospitals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Summarising money being raised and spent.
- Supporting ACT in getting the all-important funds to our services, through banking
the funds being raised. - Maintaining accurate financial records for your fundraising committee.
- Raising morale in team meetings through sharing the success of money being raised.
- The Treasurer is responsible for handling the money raised at events, making approved payments and arrangements for counting of money at events.
Key Skills
- Experienced in numbers or accountancy.
- Confidence in handling cash for ACT.
- Ability to use emails and spreadsheets to keep financial records up to date.
ACT Fundraising Committee – Secretary
About the role
This is a flexible role which can be carried out by anyone within the committee on a rota basis.
Key Skills
- Keeping records of each meeting and actions etc/ minutes/ notes.
What commitment is needed?
This is a flexible role and is designed to fit around your lifestyle. Ideally, we are looking for volunteers who can commit longer term. You would need to:
- Set up and lead a fundraising group that will deliver a calendar of fundraising activity
- Commit to working within our policies and guidelines, including donor and volunteer confidentiality, and equal opportunities
- Give references, criminal self-declaration and adhere to our Money Handling Policy Agreement.
The Impact You Make
The impact you make will be incredibly valuable as part of the team here at Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust. We all share the same goal in ensuring that we continue to strive towards improving the CUH and Rosie’s Hospitals for our community, whether that is patient experience, specialist equipment, recruiting leading experts in their field and research. Your contribution is vital, and we will be supporting you throughout your journey.
Interested?
We strongly encourage candidates of different backgrounds and identities to apply. Each new team member is an opportunity for us to bring in a different perspective, and we are always eager to further diversify our charity.
Please complete an Expression of Interest form or email volunteer@act4addenbrookes.org.uk for further information and next steps.