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Fundraising & Administration Assistant

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Preston, PR2 9HT Posted 6 October 2026 Apply by 20 October 2026
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Salary for this role£25,760 – £27,476 a year
Health and Care route minimum£25,000 a year
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Role description

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity including Baby Beat currently has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Fundraising and Administration Assistant, based at Royal Preston Hospital. This is a full-time role that combines office-based work with time spent in the community, attending fundraising events and supporting our valued donors and volunteers. In return, you'll receive a competitive salary and become part of a passionate, high-achieving team.

Our charity raises almost £1m annually through a varied and dynamic portfolio of activities. We're looking for someone enthusiastic, hardworking, and flexible--ready to meet the challenge and play a key role in one of the region's most successful Hospital charity's.

If you want to make a real difference to the lives of local patients and are keen to begin or develop a career in the charity sector--whether or not you have previous fundraising experience--we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Support the Lancashire Teaching Hospital Charity team including Baby Beat to implement multi-year strategies to increase income andsupport for them across all areas of fundraising, ensuring donors and supporters receive appropriate stewardship, as well as providing retail administrative, charity administrative and finance support.

You will often be the first point of contact with donors, customers, volunteers, supporters, Trust staff and suppliers.

This post is predominately office-based working with the need to work in the community at fundraising events along with supporting and stewarding the charity's supporters and donors.

You'll need to be flexible, enthusiastic, and confident when working with the public, as you'll sometimes represent the charity at community events.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable experience in a supportive and fast-paced charity environment, where your contribution will truly make a difference.

A car and driving license are essential for this post as the post holder will be required to drop of fundraising resources, meet with donors and fundraisers, support fundraising events and attend third party fundraising activities and functions across Lancashire.

About us

Here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity, we are dedicated to making a difference to the thousands of patients treated at our hospitals every year.

Our aim is to enhance the services already provided by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, so that patients treated at our hospitals have access to the best possible care, in the very best facilities.

Our support helps us go above and beyond the scope of the NHS by making a difference in four key areas:

  • Funding projects such as patient services and comforts
  • Funding specialist equipment
  • Supporting patients needs and staff welfare
  • Supporting the advancement of clinical research

We can fund those added extras that can make all the difference to our patients, when they need it the most.

Details

Date posted

06 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£25,760 to £27,476 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

438-PB4653

Job locations

Royal Preston Hopsital

Sharoe Green Lane

Preston

PR2 9HT

United Kingdom


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for complete details. Key responsibilities include:

  • Providing general fundraising support across all areas as needed

  • Support the charity team to grow income through excellentstewardship and relationship support. This will includesupporting wider fundraising activities and leading on lower valuefundraising initiatives

  • Provide administrative support for whole Hospital charity team(including Baby Beat), including but not limited to:To log donations and generate acknowledgement letters via thedonor databaseTo assist with general finance tasks and the counting and bankingof monies in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions Administration and processing of various digital donation and evententry platforms such as Just Giving, Enthuse and Trybooking

  • Contributing to donor recruitment, donor retention, and the development of fundraising programmes and events.

  • Baby Beat Shop administration including but not limited to theprocessing of shop income and expenditure, ordering of all stock,stock pricing, stock control and annual stock takes to ensuremaximum profitability. Responsible for producing monthly retail reports as required to support financial accounting and audit requirements

  • Supervision of shop volunteers ensuring that the shop rota iscoordinated to maximise opening hours

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working to and achieving financial targets
  • Working knowledge of a donor management system or equivalent
  • Computer literate - Microsoft Office packages
  • Experience of dealing with sensitive issues

Desirable

  • Knowledge of GDPR in relation to fundraising
  • Previous experience working within a charity, fundraising or related role (e.g. marketing / sales)

Qualifications & Education

Essential

  • GCSE Maths and English or equivalent qualifications or equivalent work experience
  • Full UK Driving License

Desirable

  • Educated to AS and A level or equivalent experience
  • Membership of Chartered Institute of Fundraising

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Preston Hopsital

Sharoe Green Lane

Preston

PR2 9HT

United Kingdom


Employer's website

https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/


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