Organisation: Bendrigg Trust

Salary Details: £23,306-£26,688 FTE

Closing date for applications: 30 Jun 2025

Contract: Permanent, full time or part time (minimum 0.8FTE)
Hours: 29-36.25 hours per week (0.8-1FTE)
Location: Office-based or hybrid with a minimum of three days a week in the office (Kendal).
Closing date: 9am Monday 30th June 2025
Interview date: Wednesday 9th June 2025
Start date: Monday 11th August 2025 (TBC with successful candidate)

About Bendrigg Trust
We make adventure accessible, working together to overcome barriers and transform lives.

The spirit of adventure is incredible. A bona fide superpower that can fill any one of us with conviction and confidence, with new abilities and renewed agency. And it’s universal too – not the exclusive preserve of the advantaged and non-disabled. It’s for everyone, because we’re making sure it is.

At Bendrigg, we have the setting and the scenery, the equipment and the expertise, the people and the passion. Together we have a limitless supply of adventure. With a limitless determination to improve people’s lives.

Because we know that, whatever adventure means to each individual, it has the power to empower. To challenge and inspire, to tear down barriers and build up possibilities, to create real and lasting change. Above all, it has the power to change minds – within those individuals and across our whole society: changing the way people see their world, and changing the way the world sees them.

At Bendrigg we create change, one adventure at a time.

The role: Fundraising and Supporter Engagement Coordinator
The Fundraising and Supporter Engagement Coordinator will join a small but passionate fundraising team, working together to harness the power of adventure to create lasting change and transform communities for all.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the day to day administration that the fundraising team needs to work smoothly, keep our records in order and look after our donors, participants and supporters. You will be well organised, have good attention to detail and confident with both figures and writing work. You will have a lot of contact with our visitors, donors and participants and so you will be a good communicator in person and via other means, as well as friendly and approachable. As well as experience in an administration or customer care role, you may also have worked in a fundraising or marketing team. The successful candidate will also help us to develop news ways to gather feedback from our visitors, so that we can show even more clearly what impact our work has on young people’s lives.

Working at Bendrigg
We understand that everyone is different and try to be as flexible as possible. We are proud to offer a caring and supportive working environment with a number of benefits including:
• Holidays: Staff receive 30 days paid holiday plus bank holidays (FTE, part-time pro-rata). (Up to 7 days + 3 Bank holidays required to be taken during the Christmas/New Year shut down period – FTE).
• Meals: meals and refreshments are provided when on-shift for anyone working on-site from our amazing catering team.
• Training: personal and professional development is actively encouraged and rewarded. Staff are provided with opportunities for external training as well as a number of internal training sessions throughout the year.
• Pension: All employees can take advantage of our pension arrangements whereby contributions of 5% from the employee are matched by 5% from Bendrigg.
• Company health cash plan
• Sick pay: company sick pay (inclusive of SSP) starting at one week full pay in the first six months rising to six months full pay after five years of employment
• Maternity & Paternity Pay: Statutory Maternity & Paternity Pay
• Parental leave: We understand that you may need time to settle children into a new school, or you may want to spend more time with a child. Bendrigg offers 18 weeks unpaid leave for each child up to their 18th birthday (maximum of 4 weeks per year).
• Emergency Dependant & Compassionate leave: Up to 5 paid days per year We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, irrespective of gender, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, religion or criminal records.

How to apply
If you feel you could belong at Bendrigg then please download the full job description (click here) and submit a copy of your CV and covering letter detailing how you fit the person specification to vacancies@bendrigg.org.uk

For more information
We welcome informal enquiries so please do contact our office if you have any questions.
All enquiries relating to this post should be made to:
Lizzie Feltoe, Fundraising Manager
elizabeth@bendrigg.org.uk 01539 723766