Salary: £9,773.60 per annumLocation: South Wigston, Leicester, LE18 4TPHours: Part Time, 15 hours per weekBenefits: 25 days holiday, pro-rata, 5.5% Employer Pension Contribution including Life Cover, Occupational Sick Pay Benefits & Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Leave and Pay, plus moreReporting to: Warehouse Manager
FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity, tackling inequality, transforming lives and ensuring no good food goes to waste. We rescue surplus food and redistribute it to 650 local charities and community organisations, feeding 60,000 people every week. We also invest in communities, providing education, training and volunteering opportunities, helping over 1,500 individuals to date to build a better future. Together, we’re fighting hunger, reducing food waste and creating opportunities across the Midlands. Learn more here or read our latest Annual Report Snapshot here.
Find out more.
To undertake all aspects of warehouse duties, ensuring effective, safe and efficient distribution of food each day. You will have responsibility for coordination of our food stock, from goods-in to picking, dispatch and stock rotation and will be expected to drive vans, and Fork Lift Trucks (training provided). Working closely with the wider team and volunteers, you will also support the monitoring and utilisation of warehouse space, stock, deliveries and collections to ensure food reaches its destination amongst our members safely, on time and in full.
- Undertake all warehouse duties, ensuring effective, safe and efficient co-ordination and distribution and of food
- To work to performance indicators so that stock is accurate and delivery routes are efficient to allow the organisation to grow
- To ensure that all work areas – both inside and outside the warehouse - are clean, organised and safe to work in
- Follow all H&S and Food Safety standards set out in the FareShare policies and procedures to ensure the safety of all our colleagues & visitors, and the safe receipt of food by all our members.
- Undertake van/Fork Lift Truck driving duties to ensure effective, efficient timely and safe delivery & collection of food, in line with compliance standards
- Ensuring great customer service in delivery
- Loading and unloading, sorting for, and following deliveries, ensuring safe lifting, and carrying
- Keep vehicles refuelled, maintained, operational and clean and tidy, ready for the next delivery run
- Refer van “issues”, in a timely manner to Transport Department to ensure minimum disruption to service delivery
- Undertake all checks and procedures from pre-delivery to post-delivery
- Ensure lock up, parking and storage of vans and equipment following completion of deliveries
- Work closely with the volunteer teams a diverse group ranging from regular and long-term, volunteers, placements (e.g. Job Centre) to business people having just a 1-day volunteering experience – to ensure that all shift duties are covered and teams work effectively
- Provide leadership and guidance to volunteers, ensuring they follow all policies and procedures, high standards of accuracy are maintained and their volunteer experience with FSM is a satisfying one.
- Work closely with the Warehouse Manager, Volunteer Manager & wider staff team with the recruitment, training and development of volunteers in the context of our commitment to Equal Opportunities
- Participate in end of day reviews and planning for the next day’s activities
- Maintain excellent relations and communications with volunteers, staff, food suppliers and charities, at all times
- Ensure compliance with relevant Health & Safety, Food Hygiene and other standards applicable to the building, vehicles, refrigeration equipment, our staff and volunteers. carrying out risk assessments as required
- Uphold and develop high quality customer care towards & communication with our Community Food Members (CFMs)
- Ensure that food movements are accurately logged on the electronic stock management system
- Carry out depot administration, including running reports, correspondence with member groups, updating volunteer records
- Ensure that relevant administrative matters are dealt with in a timely way, for instance food safety traces & customer complaints.
- Excellent, clear and proactive communication skills, both internal and with external stakeholders
- Team working skills, including both the ability to delegate and to develop people with a positive approach
- Good organisational skills including attention to detail, an ability to prioritise and meet deadlines working with own team
- All round good health and ability to do physically demanding work at times
- A positive and creative attitude in support of our FareShare & partners values
- A motivation to collaborate with and develop others, with a demonstrable commitment to Equal Opportunities
- A flexible work approach, including a willingness to cover alternative shift rotas
- No major endorsements on license such as DR, DG or IN. Successful candidates will have a full clean UK driving license (6 points or less will be considered)
- IT literacy, in particular of using Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word)
- Sound numeracy skills
- Qualifications in Food Hygiene, Health & Safety as it applies to food distribution (or if not it is essential that you have the commitment to training in these areas)
- Previous multi-drop experience is preferred however not essential.
- The role requires manually loading stock into a van (up to 20/30kg) and unload each delivery
- Experience of working in a warehouse environment, preferably with food
- Experience of working with individuals who may feel vulnerable or need support
- Previous multi-drop experience is preferred however not essential.
- The role requires manually loading stock into a van (up to 20/30kg) and unload each delivery
- A good geographical knowledge of the County and surrounding area would be helpful.
- Forklift License
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities
- An appreciation of FareShare Midlands’ mission and vision
- Flexibility of approach and ability to work in a team
- Proven ability to develop and maintain good working relations, with both internal and external audiences.
If you would like to apply for this role, please create a supporting statement to demonstrate your suitability and to explain your interest in both the job and FareShare Midlands. Please send your supporting statement with a copy of your CV to recruitment@faresharemidlands.org.uk.
We continue to strive to ensure that the profile of our staff and volunteers reflects the diverse communities we serve across the Midlands. As such we encourage and welcome applications from all our communities. We particularly welcome applications from people from ethnically diverse backgrounds as they are currently under-represented within FareShare Midlands.
Closing date for applications is Friday 23rd January 2026.
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Salary: £34,540 per annumLocation: Midlands wideBenefits: 25 days holiday, pro-rata, 5.5% Employer Pension Contribution including Life Cover, Occupational Sick Pay Benefits & Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Leave and Pay, plus moreReporting to: Trusts, Grants & Foundations Fundraising Manager
FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity, tackling inequality, transforming lives and ensuring no good food goes to waste. We rescue surplus food and redistribute it to 650 local charities and community organisations, feeding 60,000 people every week. We also invest in communities, providing education, training and volunteering opportunities, helping over 1,500 individuals to date to build a better future. Together, we’re fighting hunger, reducing food waste and creating opportunities across the Midlands. Learn more here or read our latest Annual Report Snapshot here.
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The Trusts & Grants Lead is responsible for delivering income from trusts, foundations and statutory funders through proactive prospect research, high quality applications, relationship management and timely reporting, contributing directly to FareShare Midlands’ income targets and growth plans.
- Manage a portfolio of trust, foundation and grant funders
- Writing applications and reports
- Budget management for restricted funds
- Working with FSM and FSUK colleagues on bids
- Build strong relationships with programme officers, grant managers, funding panels.
- Managing restricted funding compliance
- Coordinating evaluation and evidence collection for funder reports
- Monitoring funder requirements and deadlines
- Identify a pipeline of new opportunities in trusts, grants, foundations and corporate to secure new income for FareShare Midlands
- Maintain a rolling 12 to 18 month pipeline
- Regular prospect research using databases (e.g. funds online, the charity commission website, idox etc)
- Prioritising opportunities by value, likelihood and strategic fit
- Assisting on project development working with colleagues to build in the needs and preferences of funders to ensure projects can attract support
- Professional stewardship of trusts and foundations funders
- Managing funder communications in line with grant agreements
- Working with the stewardship officer and comms team to identify and develop impact stories and relevant data.
- Writing funder-facing materials
- Ensuring clarity, evidence and compliance in all submissions
- Coordinating case studies and impact data for bids
- Application tracker ownership
- Reporting calendar management
- Income forecasting for trusts & grants
- Document management for funder requirements
- Consistently securing income from trusts, foundations and statutory funders in line with agreed targets
- Maintaining a strong, well-researched pipeline of trust and grant opportunities
- Submitting high-quality funding applications and reports to deadline
- Achieving a healthy success rate across applications through strong prospecting and proposal quality
- Ensuring full compliance with restricted funding requirements
- Building positive, professional relationships with funding partners
- Providing accurate income forecasting and pipeline reporting
- Bringing creativity and passion in communicating FSM’s central mission to inspire funders to support us.
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of restricted funding
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines
- Strong analytical and written skills
- Confidence working with budgets and impact data
- Experience of supporting or developing fundraising partnerships and maximising fundraising opportunities
- Experience of securing gifts from trusts, grants and foundations
- Experience in writing compelling funding applications and impact reporting
- Experience in prospecting for new business and stewarding donors face to face
- Willingness to work flexibly including events and occasional weekends.
- To subscribe to the ethos, vision and mission of FareShare Midlands
- Full clean driving license and have access to a vehicle so that travel between depots or to stakeholder meetings is possible (all travel costs reimbursed)
Skills, knowledge and abilities
- Knowledge of trust, grant and foundation fundraising, particularly around restricted funding
- Excellent communication skills, good persuading skills and good writing skills
- Excellent numeracy skills and use of Excel
- Good relationship building skills, both inside and outside an organisation
- Ability to work to meet objectives and deadlines
- Ability and experience of working well in a team
Values and behaviours
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities
- An appreciation of FareShare Midlands’ mission and vision
- Flexibility of approach and ability to work in a team
- Proven ability to develop and maintain good working relations, with both internal and external audiences
If you would like to apply for this role, please create a supporting statement to demonstrate your suitability and to explain your interest in both the job and FareShare Midlands. Please send your supporting statement with a copy of your CV to recruitment@faresharemidlands.org.uk.
We continue to strive to ensure that the profile of our staff and volunteers reflects the diverse communities we serve across the Midlands. As such we encourage and welcome applications from all our communities. We particularly welcome applications from people from ethnically diverse backgrounds as they are currently under-represented within FareShare Midlands.
Closing date for applications is Friday 23rd January 2026.
Having access to food is a basic human right and yet 14.5 million people in the UK are struggling to afford to eat.
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Salary: £16289.33 per annumLocation: South Wigston, Leicester, LE18 4TPHours: Part Time, 25 hours per weekBenefits: 25 days holiday, pro-rata, 5.5% Employer Pension Contribution including Life Cover, Occupational Sick Pay Benefits & Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Leave and Pay, plus moreReporting to: Warehouse Manager
FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity, tackling inequality, transforming lives and ensuring no good food goes to waste. We rescue surplus food and redistribute it to 650 local charities and community organisations, feeding 60,000 people every week. We also invest in communities, providing education, training and volunteering opportunities, helping over 1,500 individuals to date to build a better future. Together, we’re fighting hunger, reducing food waste and creating opportunities across the Midlands. Learn more here or read our latest Annual Report Snapshot here.
Find out more.
To undertake all aspects of warehouse duties, ensuring effective, safe and efficient distribution of food each day. You will have responsibility for coordination of our food stock, from goods-in to picking, dispatch and stock rotation and will be expected to drive vans, and Fork Lift Trucks (training provided). Working closely with the wider team and volunteers, you will also support the monitoring and utilisation of warehouse space, stock, deliveries and collections to ensure food reaches its destination amongst our members safely, on time and in full.
- Undertake all warehouse duties, ensuring effective, safe and efficient co-ordination and distribution and of food
- To work to performance indicators so that stock is accurate and delivery routes are efficient to allow the organisation to grow
- To ensure that all work areas – both inside and outside the warehouse - are clean, organised and safe to work in
- Follow all H&S and Food Safety standards set out in the FareShare policies and procedures to ensure the safety of all our colleagues & visitors, and the safe receipt of food by all our members.
- Undertake van/Fork Lift Truck driving duties to ensure effective, efficient timely and safe delivery & collection of food, in line with compliance standards
- Ensuring great customer service in delivery
- Loading and unloading, sorting for, and following deliveries, ensuring safe lifting, and carrying
- Keep vehicles refuelled, maintained, operational and clean and tidy, ready for the next delivery run
- Refer van “issues”, in a timely manner to Transport Department to ensure minimum disruption to service delivery
- Undertake all checks and procedures from pre-delivery to post-delivery
- Ensure lock up, parking and storage of vans and equipment following completion of deliveries
- Work closely with the volunteer teams a diverse group ranging from regular and long-term, volunteers, placements (e.g. Job Centre) to business people having just a 1-day volunteering experience – to ensure that all shift duties are covered and teams work effectively
- Provide leadership and guidance to volunteers, ensuring they follow all policies and procedures, high standards of accuracy are maintained and their volunteer experience with FSM is a satisfying one.
- Work closely with the Warehouse Manager, Volunteer Manager & wider staff team with the recruitment, training and development of volunteers in the context of our commitment to Equal Opportunities
- Participate in end of day reviews and planning for the next day’s activities
- Maintain excellent relations and communications with volunteers, staff, food suppliers and charities, at all times
- Ensure compliance with relevant Health & Safety, Food Hygiene and other standards applicable to the building, vehicles, refrigeration equipment, our staff and volunteers. carrying out risk assessments as required
- Uphold and develop high quality customer care towards & communication with our Community Food Members (CFMs)
- Ensure that food movements are accurately logged on the electronic stock management system
- Carry out depot administration, including running reports, correspondence with member groups, updating volunteer records
- Ensure that relevant administrative matters are dealt with in a timely way, for instance food safety traces & customer complaints.
- Excellent, clear and proactive communication skills, both internal and with external stakeholders
- Team working skills, including both the ability to delegate and to develop people with a positive approach
- Good organisational skills including attention to detail, an ability to prioritise and meet deadlines working with own team
- All round good health and ability to do physically demanding work at times
- A positive and creative attitude in support of our FareShare & partners values
- A motivation to collaborate with and develop others, with a demonstrable commitment to Equal Opportunities
- A flexible work approach, including a willingness to cover alternative shift rotas
- No major endorsements on license such as DR, DG or IN. Successful candidates will have a full clean UK driving license (6 points or less will be considered)
- IT literacy, in particular of using Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word)
- Sound numeracy skills
- Qualifications in Food Hygiene, Health & Safety as it applies to food distribution (or if not it is essential that you have the commitment to training in these areas)
- Previous multi-drop experience is preferred however not essential.
- The role requires manually loading stock into a van (up to 20/30kg) and unload each delivery
- Experience of working in a warehouse environment, preferably with food
- Experience of working with individuals who may feel vulnerable or need support
- Previous multi-drop experience is preferred however not essential.
- The role requires manually loading stock into a van (up to 20/30kg) and unload each delivery
- A good geographical knowledge of the County and surrounding area would be helpful.
- Forklift License
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities
- An appreciation of FareShare Midlands’ mission and vision
- Flexibility of approach and ability to work in a team
- Proven ability to develop and maintain good working relations, with both internal and external audiences.
If you would like to apply for this role, please create a supporting statement to demonstrate your suitability and to explain your interest in both the job and FareShare Midlands. Please send your supporting statement with a copy of your CV to recruitment@faresharemidlands.org.uk.
We continue to strive to ensure that the profile of our staff and volunteers reflects the diverse communities we serve across the Midlands. As such we encourage and welcome applications from all our communities. We particularly welcome applications from people from ethnically diverse backgrounds as they are currently under-represented within FareShare Midlands.
Closing date for applications is Friday 23rd January 2026.
Having access to food is a basic human right and yet 14.5 million people in the UK are struggling to afford to eat.
Give
£10
Give
£20
Give
£50
Ramathon - 01/06/26
London to Paris 3 Day Cycle - 14/05/26
Great Birmingham Run: 10K and Half Marathon