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Care Dogs: Fundraising and Marketing Assistant

Published date: 03 December 2025
Closing date: 05 January 2026

Salary: £13,361.28 per year (Pro-rata for 16 hours a week) Full-Time Equivalent Salary: £27,778.08 per year

Hours: Part-time (16 hours per week)

Contract: Two years from March 2026, with an opportunity for this to be extended with secured funding

About the role: Do you want to be part of a rapidly growing grassroots charity with a mission to reduce loneliness, increase wellbeing and encourage community connection?

CareDogs reduce social isolation by getting people out and about with local volunteers and their dogs for regular walks, talks and companionship. 
They believe in a society that values community, celebrates intergenerational friendship, honours the human–animal bond, encourages us to be outside more, and helps people feel like valued members of their local communities. 
As Fundraising and Marketing Assistant, you will play a central role in delivering CareDogs’ fundraising strategy, helping to grow income, strengthen community connections and raise awareness of our work. You will contribute to the development and delivery of creative fundraising initiatives, build relationships with local partners and supporters, and create engaging content that inspires people to get involved.
This is a hands-on, varied role for someone who enjoys both community engagement and communications. With a growing presence in South London, it’s an exciting opportunity to help shape the next stage of CareDogs’ growth and sustainability.

Deadline: Monday 5th January 2026.

Applying: Apply online

DSM Foundation:

Published date: 16 December 2025
Closing date: 20 January 2026

The DSM Foundation is recruiting a Head of Business and Organisational Development to join the drug education charity’s senior management team.
This role involves working with the Director and Board of Trustees to provide strategic leadership to the DSMF team on all aspects of organisational and business development with a long-term income growth strategy, and alongside the Head of Operations and Head of Education and Engagement, to ensure that DSMF is a well-managed and successful charity with a clear strategic vision. The role is 0.6FTE and primarily based at the charity’s South London office with some opportunities for remote working.

Deadline: 20 January.

DSM Foundation: Drugs Educator

Published date: 16 December 2025
Closing date: 01 February 2026

About the role: This exciting and rewarding role not only provides flexible and varied work, and the potential for future, ongoing work with the DSM Foundation, but also – and importantly – the opportunity to make a vital difference in the lives of young people and enable them to make safer choices about alcohol and drugs.

Deadline: 1 February. 

Applications: Apply here

Hear Us: Events Coordinator

Published date: 16 December 2025
Closing date: 13 January 2026

About the role: Purpose of Post: The Events Coordinator will help to plan, promote and deliver a diverse programme of online and in-person events that reflect the organisation’s mission to support, empower and amplify the voices of people with lived experience of mental illness. These will include outreach sessions, campaigning events, open forums, creative workshops, community engagement activities, fundraising events, awareness days and partnership events.

The post-holder will ensure all events are accessible, inclusive, trauma-informed and well-organised, working closely with the Engagement & Campaigns Manager, project teams, volunteers and external partners.

Given the collaborative and engagement-focused nature of this role, and its direct delivery responsibilities, regular face-to-face working is required, with the post-holder based primarily in the office and attending events and community activities as needed.

Deadline: 13 January.

Applications: Apply here