Organisation Name:
York Rescue Boat
Organisation's Cause(s):
Emergency / Disaster Response
Local Community
Location of voluntary activity:
York and surrounding areas (fundraising events, stalls, prep work)
When are volunteers needed: Flexible, including weekends and evenings (roughly 30% attendance commitment)
Type of Voluntary Activity:
Event Planning Support
Event Support
Fundraising
Role description:
At York Rescue Boat, we are extremely proud and committed in supporting the community around river safety and aiding the public in water incidents including when requested by the emergency services to attend rescues and searches. York Rescue Boat is run purely from volunteers and all our funds come from fundraising, donations and grants.
Casual fundraisers are so important to the fundraising team as you are the glue that holds the events together, whether it could be baking so we have products to sell, helping prep for events or coming down to events so volunteers can have breaks and well-earned coffee.
As the Casual Fundraising lead, you will coordinate this group of volunteers as well as yourself helping at events.
Responsibilities and duties
● To work as a team and be a supportive and motivating lead, ensuring your team is guided to enable them to complete their tasks and that these are completed promptly and to a high standard, ensuring a fair, supportive and inclusive environment for all.
● Report back to the Overall fundraising lead at least every other month at the Fundraising leads meeting and speak to the fundraising manager before making monetary or significant decisions within your team and the fundraising team as a whole.
● To lead your team by organising the casual volunteers to help at events, keeping an eye out on what will be needed at the next event and checking in with your team to let them know what is needed when.
● To ensure the volunteers in your group are helping out and committing, as although we don’t give a number of hours volunteered, we need to see commitment to be on this team and roughly a 30% attendance in whatever format within the casual fundraiser lead.
● To comply with the Charity Commission Charity fundraising - GOV.UK, Institute of Fundraisers https://ciof.org.uk/, The Fundraisers Code of Practice Code Fundraising Practice October 2019.PDF and York Rescue Boat policies and procedures.
● To work alongside the Corporate social media volunteer/s to make up suitable packages to ensure we have enticing offers for corporate sponsorship.
● Attend fundraising meetings, including General fundraising meetings, Fundraising leads meetings, corporate meetings (as arranged by yourself) and the York Rescue boat AGM when required.
Skills and behaviours needed for the role:
Excellent teamwork and people skills.
Friendly, approachable, and reliable.
Enthusiastic about York Rescue Boat’s mission.
Organised and proactive in volunteer coordination.
Will there be a DBS check? No
Driving Licence required? No
Volunteer's own vehicle required? No
Suitable for:
Ongoing Volunteering
What will the volunteer gain/benefit from:
Leadership and team coordination experience.
Training in fundraising compliance and event management.
Opportunity to support lifesaving community work.
How to get involved:
To apply for this role, please visit our website:
https://www.yorkrescueboat.org.uk/
and navigate to the "Recruitment" tab.
Alternatively, email:
Fundraising@yorkrescueboat.com
Web link: Click here
Closing date: 31-12-2025