Join the Team!
NEW Grants and Trust Fundraiser
On-site | £31,609 Pro Rata | 15 hours a week (2 or 3 days a week Tuesday-Thursday) | Permanent Contract | Deadline Monday 3rd November 2025
Job Description & Specification
Aid Box Community (ABC) is a Bristol charity that provides hope, love and a sense of belonging to people seeking asylum in Bristol. The charity was started 10 years ago on the Refugee camps in France by a local mum and has grown and evolved to support over 5000 people a year through our Free Shop and Welcome Hub, Activity Groups and Trips and Connections Befriending program. We have 336 volunteers and a fantastic, small team and we are looking for a Grants and Trusts Fundraiser to join our dedicated team. The job is for 2 or 3 days a week, based at the new ABC Hub, St Andrews area, Bristol.
You will work closely with the Founder and Director of Strategy, the Communications and Local Fundraiser and also the ABC Finance officer. The Grants and Trust fundraiser will be responsible for building on a strong foundation of support within the grant-giving community, you will cultivate and develop strong relationships with grant givers in order to grow our income to support our organisational aims. We are a small team, and you may be asked to do something outside of your Job Description and help support other members of the Aid Box team.
From the get-go, your role will be to gain a deep understanding of the charities objectives, vision and mission, the people we work with, the other agencies in the sector staff team and activities and services we provide, the funding opportunities available to ABC.
This role is suited to someone target-driven, with excellent writing skills, great attention to detail, highly organised and with a passion for the cause.
For full details of the role please read the Job Description and Specification in the link above.
Location: St Bartholmew’s Parish Hall, Sommerville Road, Bristol, BS6 5BX
Duration of work: 15 hours per week – to be worked over 2 or 3 days Tuesday-Thursday (exact work pattern negotiable).
Start date: Tuesday January 6th 2026
Closing date for applications: 9am Monday 3rd November 2025 Please send your CV and cover letter to the Charity Administrator Susan Qazi susan@aidboxcommunity.co.uk
Interview date: Wednesday 12th November 2025
We are part of the Experts by Experience Employment Initiative (www.ebeemployment.org.uk). The network supports inclusive recruitment of people with lived experience of the UK asylum or immigration system. If this is your experience, you can find useful resources [www.ebeemployment.org.uk/ebe].
About Aid Box Community
Aid Box Community (ABC) is a Bristol charity that provides hope, love and a sense of belonging to people seeking asylum in Bristol. The charity was started 10 years ago on the Refugee camps in France by a local mum and has grown and evolved to support about 5000 people a year through our Free Shop and Welcome Hub, Activity Groups and Trips and Connections Befriending program.
“I have never known a charity like it, they are not a charity they are a family.”
— S, Service User
Our Vision, Mission & Values
Vision - that the rights of refugees and those seeking asylum will be respected so that they have the opportunity to achieve financial and emotional independence.
Mission – to provide a warm welcome to people seeking asylum in Bristol and to offer the support they need to access living essentials, emotional support, recreation, shelter, community, legal advice, health care and employment.
Values – we welcome with open arms all displaced people regardless of their faith, race, ethnicity, culture, age, disability, gender and sexuality and always respecting the principle of equity. We treat everyone with respect, compassion and love and seek to offer hope, advocacy and a space to belong.
History of Aid Box Community
Aid Box Community was founded in 2015 by Imogen who after seeing the image of young Alan Kurdi's body washed up on the Mediterranean shore was not able to look away.
After calling out for donations from friends and family to take to the French refugee camps and getting the most overwhelming response form the Bristol public a group was formed: 'Aid Box Convoy'. 30 Volunteers convoyed to Dunkirk Refugee camp with 350 Aid Boxes, hundreds of tents, sleeping bags, food boxes and building materials to attend to the basic needs of the people stranded in the camp.
Aid Box Convoy continued to coordinate volunteers and donations on the camp, fundraise and raise awareness across the UK and Europe of the plight of refugees.
In April 2016 after witnessing the poverty, isolation, and trauma that many were experiencing once they had reached the UK, Aid Box Convoy became Aid Box Community which, in 2017, registered as a charity (CIO). Our charity hub is on the main road at 174b Cheltenham Rd, Bristol BS6 5RE. Please do feel free to drop in to meet our team and to look around!
Aid Box Community Services
Welcome Hub and signposting: Our welcome hub is a safe space where people can come to be part of our community, for a chat and a cuppa, signposting to our partner services or just to escape isolation and build friendships.
Free Shop: In our hub, where people can choose with dignity free quality items donated by the public - from clothing, toiletries, household toys, to electrical items. As well as new underwear and other items we purchase that are essential.
Crisis Fund: We have a small fund that is available for people in crisis: this may be an emergency food voucher, emergency dental treatment, transport to asylum interview, medical equipment.
Connections befriending program: A befriending programme connecting people to alleviate isolation and growing true friendships.
Activity Groups and Trips: These groups provide a space for sharing skills, learning, laughing, and chatting - a time for people to meet friends and feel belonging.
All delivered with loads of Love and Hope.
Why we do what we do
The UK is home to about 1% of the 35.3 million refugees that have been forcibly displaced across the world. The world is facing one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes of our generation. Millions of people are being forced to flee their homelands in search of safety from war, extreme poverty and government oppression and persecution.
Europe has seen a huge movement of desperate people and is struggling to offer a sufficient response. Where governments and large NGOs fail to tackle the situation, the crisis grows. Camps and pockets of people emerge across Europe with little or no support other than that provided by individuals and small independent organisations who can’t turn their backs.
For those who arrive in the UK, it can take well over a year to be granted asylum and often many years. Most displaced people suffer from PTSD, depression, and isolation. Those who are not granted asylum face destitution and deportation and are often held in deportation centres - some for years. Some granted asylum end up homeless and destitute due to the lack of mental health, employment, and housing support.
Over the past 12 months we have supported 4730 individuals and families settle in Bristol.We are a team of 11 part-time members of staff, 272 loyal volunteers and 7 trustees.
Safeguarding Statement
ABC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its service users and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
ABC operates Safeguarding Policies for the purpose of protecting Young People and Vulnerable Adults. All staff members are required to undergo Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service DBS checks.
Statement on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
ABC aims to be anti-discriminatory organisation committed to the promotion of quality and diversity and, in line with the Equality Act 2010. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups and those with lived experience.