Could your skills make a real difference for local young people?

Mentoring Plus is an award-winning community charity supporting children and young people across Bath & NE Somerset who are struggling with education, family difficulties or emotional wellbeing. Our vision is a world where all young people feel safe, feel heard and feel hopeful for their future.

Our charitably funded work provides trained volunteer mentors and skills-building group activities to help young people feel happier, stay safe, engage with education and reduce risk-taking behaviour.

Young people choose to engage with mentoring even when all other interventions fail. Since 1998 we’ve enabled our community volunteers to support over 2,000 children and young people to feel more confident, improve their wellbeing and pursue positive new interests and pathways.

We’ve held a local authority commission for early help volunteer mentoring since 2005. We’re building a professional mentoring practice to support higher-need young people, and in 2018 won a second commission to support students at risk of school exclusion, renewed in 2025. We also provide open-access youth clubs 2 nights per week.

The rationale: Mentoring Plus currently raises about half its income through charitable sources, and with demand at an all-time high, we’re ambitious to deliver more support.

The charity has a strong record of winning funds from grants and trusts and community sources, and maintains comprehensive impact data, assets and information resources to share with funders.

We’re now looking for an energetic fundraising professional keen to help shape our future by taking our fundraising forward, planning and implementing effective events and campaigns supported by persuasive communications across all channels.

Role profile: Reporting direct to the CEO, you’ll be at the heart of a small, friendly and committed team and working to maintain and build charitable income from all sources. This role needs your creativity, knowhow, planning skills, networking and team co-operation to really make a difference to young people in our region.

With support from the whole team and leadership group, you’ll apply your relevant skills, experience and management strengths to planning and implementing an agreed strategy across all funding sources, taking personal responsibility for fundraising from individuals and businesses.

You’ll help build and maintain relationships with key donors, representing our work and ensuring young people are heard. You’ll ensure we’re accountable for our impact with effective impact reporting and evaluation. You’ll help shape a multi-channel communications strategy in the best interests of our beneficiaries. And you’ll support the implementation of new and developing earned income streams in support of our work.

We’re supported by a skilled Trustee board offering practical help, advice and scrutiny, and our working environment is fully committed to flexibility and personal development, including appropriate training and wellbeing support.

Sound like a fit? A full JD/role profile and application details are at https://mentoringplus.net/about-us/join-the-team