Community Fundraising Apprentice

• Arranging and facilitating our attendance at community events, organising volunteer attendance, logistics and ensuring events are fully resourced
• General communication to supporters - responding to all communications in a timely and professional manner, ensuring that our database is updated without delay and that relevant stakeholders are informed as required
• Supporting Fundraising campaigns by making onboarding telephone calls and sending relevant resources or packs
• Arranging and facilitating our store collections and looking at volunteer support to maximise these opportunities
• Supporting our Community Fundraisers with presentations and assemblies to engage new or existing schools or groups
• Assisting with thanking process for fundraising supporters
• Act as a key liaison within the Community Team, ensuring that Community Fundraisers and Community Fundraising Manager are supported as required
• Propose opportunities for KSS to increase our presence, grow our brand awareness and income, in line with KSS strategy
• Work with other members of the Income Generation team to support their activities to drive income and acquire new supporters such as Trusts and Foundations, Corporate and Individual Giving appeals

Training:
Structured training is delivered through live interactive seminars - 2 x half days per month, plus monthly coaching 1-1s

Training Outcome:
Community Fundraising & Income Generation

Employer Description:
We are Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS), and we save lives when every second counts. We're now in our 35th year as an air ambulance charity at the forefront of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) with a strong reputation for excellence nationally and internationally. ​​​​​​​ It costs £18.8M a year or £51K per day to operate our world leading, lifesaving service with 88% of our total income raised through the incredible generosity of our supporters and 10% through NHS commissioning funds*. (*Annual Report 2022-2023) At KSS, we're people-centred, purpose-driven and values-led. Our purpose of saving lives and ensuring the best possible patient outcomes drives us every minute of every day as we provide 24/7 care, 365 days a year. In 2023 our service was needed more than ever before. We responded to a record number of over 3,300 (3,328) incidents. We bring the emergency room to the scene and deliver lifesaving care. Each mission is attended by a doctor – typically a specialist in anaesthesia or emergency medicine – and a paramedic who is trained in critical care and is used to working in challenging environments. Our fleet includes three helicopters and four Rapid Response Vehicles (RRVs), we operate and maintain these out of our Redhill Aerodrome base. We also have our charity headquarters and forward operating base is at Rochester Airport. When a call for our help comes, we can reach any part of Kent, Surrey or Sussex in under 30 minutes. We have an ambitious vision for the future which is an end to preventable loss of life from medical emergency. We constantly innovate to ensure we can continually deliver our world-leading pre-hospital emergency service, saving even more lives and improving many more patient outcomes.

Working Hours :
Monday- Friday Shifts to be confirmed

Skills:
Communication skills,IT skills,Administrative skills,Team working