Make an impact. Lead with purpose.

Are you passionate about equality, inclusion and creating real opportunities for people to thrive in work and life?

This is a rare opportunity to lead a dynamic team to make real impactful change to the lives of individuals, the business world and the wider community.

About VIAS

Values Into Action Scotland is a small national voluntary organisation who drive quality and opportunity for people with learning disabilities and neurodivergent people. Our vision is for a Scotland where those individuals have the same opportunities as everyone else and are supported to achieve their goals. Through our comprehensive portfolio of supported employment, training, consultancy and evaluation services we build capacity of organisations to ensure that people with learning disabilities and/ or neurodivergent people live great lives with all the support they need to achieve this.

The Role

As Senior Lead Consultant, you will provide strategic leadership and direction for two key VIAS services, ensuring the organisation continues to grow its impact, influence and effectiveness.

You will:

• Support the development and implementation of VIAS’ strategic plan in relation to The Life I Want and Quality projects
• Identify and prioritise the development of complementary income streams
• Build, nurture and progress relationships with strategic partners

This role combines strategic leadership with hands on delivery in a small, committed organisation.

Who We’re Looking For

We are interested in the right person, not a narrow career path.

You may be an experienced practitioner ready for your first management role or someone bringing transferable leadership experience from a related sector.

We’re particularly keen to hear from people who have:

• Previous track record in a business development role primarily in B2B markets
• Experience of negotiating and building effective relationships and partnerships with external organisations
• Knowledge/willingness to learn of the issues and experiences of people with learning disabilities and/or neurodivergence
• Previous experience of writing and submitting successful funding applications and tenders
• Leadership capability with the capacity to collaborate effectively across and out with organisations
• Product and training development experience

You do not need to meet every criterion to apply — if this role excites you, we encourage you to have a go.

What We Offer

• A meaningful leadership role with national impact
• Competitive salary and contributory pension scheme
• 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Flexible and supportive working culture

Garvald Edinburgh is a long-established Scottish charity supporting adults with intellectualdisabilities through creative day opportunities, workshops, community participation, and public-facing social enterprise activities. Rooted in the principles of social therapy inspired by Rudolf Steiner, Garvald places creativity, respect, rhythm, individuality, and community at the centre of personal development.

The organisation exists to offer adults with intellectual disabilities meaningful opportunities to develop skills, confidence, and a sense of belonging, achieved through purposeful creative work, strong community integration, and innovative social enterprise.

Operating across multiple sites in Edinburgh, Garvald employs approximately 180 staff and has an annual turnover of over £4.5+ million. The organisation is entering a period of important development, guided by a multi-year strategic plan that includes organisational review, enhancing financial stability, facilities planning, digital transformation, and the continued growth of social enterprise activity. This is a pivotal moment in Garvalds history, offering the opportunity to shape the organisation’s future while strengthening its values-driven culture.

The organisation is now seeking a Head of Finance and Resources to join its Senior Management Team. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, this is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring that Garvald remains financially resilient, operationally effective, and well-positioned to support its continued growth and development.

The postholder will lead the organisation’s finance function, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, management accounts, financial controls, and year-end processes, while providing clear, timely, and insightful financial information to support decision-making at both senior management and Board level. Alongside financial leadership, the role has responsibility for key organisational resources, including system procurement, supplier and contract management, governance administration, and premises compliance support.

The Head of Finance and Resources will play a central role in supporting strong governance, attending Board meetings as a standing non-voting attendee, coordinating Board and committee processes, and ensuring clear and effective reporting on finance, risk, and organisational performance. The role will also support trading and business activity, working closely with colleagues to strengthen financial discipline, improve reporting, and ensure robust controls across retail and social enterprise operations.

The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant with significant experience in a finance leadership role, bringing strong technical expertise alongside a practical, solutions-focused approach. You will be confident in managing financial systems and procedures, developing robust systems and controls, and supporting income negotiation and operational decision-making through high-quality analysis and insight. You will also be comfortable working across a broad operational remit, contributing to organisational effectiveness, governance, and continuous improvement.

You will be an effective communicator, able to present complex financial information clearly to non-financial colleagues and trustees, and to build strong working relationships across the organisation and with external partners. Experience of supporting organisational growth, improving systems and processes, and strengthening financial sustainability will be highly valued.

Above all, the Head of Finance and Resources will be someone who combines professional rigour with integrity, sound judgement, and a values-led approach. You will be motivated by the opportunity to contribute to a purpose-driven organisation and to play a key role in enabling Garvald Edinburgh to continue delivering meaningful and creative opportunities for adults with learning disabilities.

Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health. With over 50 years’ experience across Scotland, we believe people affected by poor mental health and illness deserve the highest quality of support in the community and that every person has the right to be valued and to share in the opportunities, challenges, and joys of everyday life.

In this role you will support all areas of fundraising and in particular drive Community Fundraising, Individual Giving and Corporate Fundraising. This will involve helping individuals who choose to fundraise for us, developing relationships with local partners, and growing income through events, activities and supporter led challenges.

You will shape and deliver our fundraising programme, creating simple but innovative experiences for supporters; making sure they feel appreciated and connected to our work. This is a hands-on role and you’ll be involved in everything from planning community events to speaking with individual fundraisers, attending local events and finding new opportunities for support.

You will work confidently and independently, using my own experience and judgement to prioritise tasks, solve problems and manage my own workload. You’ll also work closely with colleagues across fundraising and communications so that fundraising plays a strong part in the wider development of the charity.

Key Responsibilities:

Building Community Support

• Develop relationships with individual fundraisers, volunteers, community groups, schools, and local businesses.
• Look for new opportunities for community support and act on them.
• Provide friendly, timely and supportive communication to everyone who chooses to fundraise for us.

Events and Activities

• Support and grow income from mass participation events, challenges and supporter-led activities.
• Help plan, promote and deliver community events, ensuring supporters have a positive experience from start to finish.

Corporate Relationships

• Account manage current key corporate relationships.
• Work closely with the Business Development Manager to steward and engage with prospective corporate partners.
• Develop new corporate relationships

Volunteer Involvement

• Develop volunteer opportunities to support the fundraising team, and wider organisation, as well as recruit for and build a pool of dedicated volunteers.
• Help develop a positive volunteer experience.

Organisation and Reporting

• Keep accurate records across our CRM systems (including Donorfy and Monday.com) and contribute to income reporting and forecasting.
• Take responsibility for maintaining high data quality and ensuring supporter information is recorded accurately and consistently
• Work with colleagues to ensure good processes, clear messaging and consistent supporter journeys.

Working Across the Charity

• Work closely with both Fundraising Managers and Head of Fundraising to implement the fundraising strategy.
• Collaborate regularly with colleagues across development, communications and service delivery.
• Represent the charity confidently at community events, meetings and presentations.
• Support the wider work of the fundraising team as needed.

Essential Criteria:

• Experience in fundraising that allows you to step into a busy fundraising environment and take ownership quickly.
• Ability to work independently with confidence, using initiative to manage competing demands.
• A track record of generating income and exceeding targets.
• Confident in building relationships with a wide range of people.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to balance different priorities.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Great understanding of supporter care and engagement.
• Good financial awareness and the ability to work to budgets.
• Great IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and databases
• A positive attitude and willingness to get stuck in.
• Knowledge of fundraising regulations and GDPR.
• Strong attention to detail with a methodical approach to recording, processing and reporting data.

Desirable Criteria:

• Working with community organisations or local partners.
• Experience delivering events or mass participation fundraising.
• Experience in working across multiple income streams.
• Experience of supporting or coordinating volunteers.
• Fundraising qualification (or similar).

Benefits:

• 24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial, and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges.
• A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan.
• A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
• Blue Light Discount Card
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements.
• Generous 37 days’ holiday
• Paid Mental Wellbeing Days
• Professional development including funded opportunities.

Introduction

This is an exciting time to join Generations Working Together, Scotland’s national centre of excellence for intergenerational practice. In 2026, we will be celebrating both Global Intergenerational Week and hosting the Global Intergenerational Congress in Glasgow—bringing together ideas, learning, and people from around the world.

By joining our team, you will contribute to a movement that strengthens connections between generations, challenges ageism, and supports communities to create meaningful intergenerational opportunities.

Background

Intergenerational practice brings together people from different generations intentionally to build meaningful, purposeful relationships. By creating regular opportunities for shared learning, creativity, and collaboration, intergenerational work helps break down barriers, reduce ageism, and strengthen community connections.

Generations Working Together supports this work across Scotland by delivering training, providing resources, running local and thematic networks, and developing pilot projects. We connect practitioners, volunteers, and organisations, helping them share skills, develop ideas, and create community-led solutions. Through this support, we promote trust, respect, and lasting relationships between generations.

Overview of Post

The Finance Officer plays a central role in ensuring the smooth and efficient financial management of Generations Working Together. This post is responsible for the day-to-day administration of our financial systems, maintaining accurate and up-to-date financial records, and supporting the production of reliable management accounts.

Working closely with the CEO, Treasurer, and wider staff team, the Finance Officer ensures that our financial processes are robust, transparent, and aligned with regulatory requirements. The role also supports colleagues with budgeting for funding applications and financial reporting, helping to ensure strong financial stewardship across the organisation.

“Discovering life skills through the horse and its environment”

Stable Life is a successful, highly respected charity based in the Scottish Borders. Our mission is to provide a safe, nurturing and empowering environment where disadvantaged young people can grow in confidence, develop essential life skills, and realise their full potential through Equine Facilitated Wellness.

We are now seeking a dedicated and motivated:

Service Manager

In this key role, you will lead the operational management of Stable Life’s charitable services and commercial activities, helping us deliver meaningful outcomes and positively transform the lives of young people.

It is essential that candidates: have proven experience of leading and managing a team, strong background working with disadvantaged young people and their families, practical experience of working with horses, excellent communication and organisational skills, ability to manage projects effectively and work proactively on your own initiative.

Essential qualifications include HND and/or SVQ Level 4 or above in Social Care or other related discipline such as Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Education or other relevant Health Care Practice.

In return we can offer comprehensive training and ongoing professional development, opportunities for career progression, generous annual leave and a company pension.

Community Alliance Trust is a development trust serving Greater Craigmillar. We bring together individuals and organisations to identify need and advocate for positive local change.

We also host and run services from The White House supporting the people of Craigmillar. This includes an open-door policy for those in need, hosting welfare and benefit advisors, as well as directly running community gardening sessions.

We have funding to expand and develop our work this year, including this new role to restore Craigmillar Library Garden.

We are looking for an experienced community gardener to lead our work transforming the neglected grassy area at Craigmillar Library into an edible and sensory community garden. The role will include co-designing the garden layout, engaging with volunteers, and motivating them in gardening sessions at the library.

Gardening sessions will include repairing and building raised beds, prepping the ground for the sensory garden, planting a range of scented, colourful and edible plants suitable for Scotland, supporting volunteers to increase their confidence and gardening skills, and building community.

The project will take place over five months on a part-time basis, with twice-weekly gardening sessions taking place most weeks.

While this project is discrete, we will be looking for a community gardener at our new Niddrie Mill site on a long-term basis. This will be a much larger community garden serving Greater Craigmillar. Please let us know if you are also interested in this permanent position, as we will be hiring for the Niddrie Mill Gardener role from the pool of applicants for the Craigmillar Library Community Gardener.

If you would like to be a part of long-term positive local change in Craigmillar, we would love to hear from you!

Here. Now. All of us. Be part of the team championing bold action for climate, nature, and people in Scotland’s first National Park. Join us and be part of the change.

Thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, this exciting new post offers the chance to develop a major new landscape scale nature restoration project for nature, climate and people, at the heart of the National Park.

The Role:

Working alongside Loch Lomond & The Trossachs Countryside Trust and RSPB Scotland, the National Park Authority has committed to an exciting new Landscape Connections Initiative. This focuses on accelerating restoration of our woodland mosaic, addressing shared threats, and maximising shared opportunities for people and communities across three existing landscape partnerships.

The post holder will provide 18-month development phase project management support across the Initiative. This will focus on our work investing in visitor infrastructure and services - particularly increasing the amount of people engaged and inspired to experience our nature-rich network through accessible, low-carbon travel.

This work directly supports the National Park Partnership Plans vision that by 2045, the National Park will have an inclusive low carbon travel network. To ensure this continues to develop at pace, this role will provide essential support to transport related projects including the role water can play in connecting people with nature as outlined in the Sustainable Travel Options Appraisal and Modal Shift Report.

Calum’s Cabin is seeking a highly motivated individual who is looking for an opportunity to make a huge impact for the organisation. If you are looking for a Fundraising role where you will directly see the difference every pound raised makes to the hundreds of families we support every year, this is it. In 2025:

• 201 families had a holiday in one of our 6 (now 7) holiday homes
• 41 families stayed in our 12 home-from-home Glasgow flats
• 687 Christmas and Easter gifts given
• 7,975 snacks given to hospitals
• 2,454 fairy box items donated
• 1,064 people attended our mindfulness sessions

As we work towards our 20th Anniversary in 2027, we have ambition to support more families across Scotland and the UK. This will mean further capital investment and ultimately increased running costs. You could be a major part of ensuring we have the sustainable income required to achieve that.

Role Purpose

The Fundraising and Corporate Partnerships Manger plays a key role in growing sustainable income for Calum’s Cabin by developing and managing high-value fundraising streams, including a renewed focus on corporate partnerships. The postholder will build strong relationships with corporate supporters, trusts, and community partners, delivering innovative fundraising initiatives that support families affected by cancer.

This role combines strategic development with hands-on delivery and is ideal for an experienced fundraiser who is passionate about making a tangible impact in a small, dynamic charity environment. You will work closely with the Chief Operating Officer and the founders to develop and deliver the Fundraising Strategy.

Who we are looking for

You will be experienced in and passionate about the charity sector, with an ambition to grow as an expert in fundraising. We are looking for a someone with the creativity and initiative to develop new fundraising ideas, and who is professional, personable, and resilient.

As a small team, we provide a significant level of support to families each year. You will be required to undertake a variety of tasks, sometimes working with others in the team, and at other times working independently. You will be a strategic thinker with a hands-on approach.

You will have excellent communication, relationship-building and influencing negotiation, and organisational skills, with a track record of achieving targets.

Following the launch of our new strategy in 2025 and the continued expansion of our services for young people, we are investing further in our fundraising capacity through the recruitment of a new Community & Corporate Fundraiser Role. As an organisation, we have traditionally relied heavily on grants and trusts as our main source of income. While this will remain an important funding stream, we are now looking to diversify our income by increasing support from community fundraising, events, and corporate partnerships. At this important stage of growth, we are also keen to raise the profile and awareness of U-evolve and the impact of our work supporting young people’s mental health.

This is a new role, offering a real opportunity to shape and develop sustainable income streams, create meaningful fundraising opportunities, and make a tangible impact on the future of our services. Working alongside our Fundraising Lead — who focuses primarily on grants and trusts — you will play a key part in generating income through community fundraising initiatives, events, and corporate sponsorship. Responsibilities will include planning and managing a calendar of fundraising events, identifying opportunities to raise awareness of U-evolve within local communities, delivering talks and presentations to encourage support, and developing and managing sponsorship relationships.

What we are looking for

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about improving young people’s mental health and who genuinely connects with our mission and values. You will have:

• Experience in fundraising, ideally including community fundraising, events, or corporate partnerships
• Experience working directly with young people and/or within mental health or a related field or an understanding of the challenges young people face today.
• Experience in building networks or contacts that could support awareness-raising, partnerships or fundraising activity.
• Confidence in building relationships and representing U-evolve externally
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a friendly and approachable manner.

Above all, we are looking for someone who shares our commitment to making a meaningful difference in the lives of young people and who is excited by the opportunity to contribute to the growth and impact of our work.

Job Specifics

Salary: £27,500 pro rata

Hours: 14 hours per week, with flexibility and option for hybrid working.

Contract: Fixed Term, 18 months, with the potential to be extended, dependant on funding.

What We Will Give You

• Generous Holiday Package
• Enhanced Sick Pay
• Flexible working patterns
• Staff Wellbeing Scheme
• Learning and Development Policy to support staff training and development

Are you a motivated fundraiser who wants to help make a difference to young people across Scotland?

Youth Scotland is looking for a Fundraiser to join our team and help strengthen our fundraising activity, supporting community-based youth work across Scotland.

Working as part of Youth Scotland’s Impact and Business Development team, the postholder will support the development of funding applications, coordinate grant reporting, research new funding opportunities and contribute to partnership funding bids. The role will focus particularly on funding from charitable trusts and foundations,

Scottish Government programmes and other public bodies, while also supporting wider partnership and business development opportunities.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for someone who is organised, curious and motivated by social impact, and who enjoys bringing together information, evidence and ideas to help secure funding that supports young people and youth organisations.

Youth Scotland is the national charity for community-based youth work, supporting a national network of 600+ youth organisations and over 2,400 youth groups. Together they provide opportunities for more than 110,000 young people, supported by 12,000 youth workers and volunteers in communities across Scotland.

Alongside fundraising activity, the role will also contribute to initiatives that support the wider youth work sector, including helping organise Meet the Funder events and supporting Youth Scotland’s involvement in the National Impact Network.

Why join Youth Scotland?

• Be part of a national organisation supporting community-based youth work across Scotland
• Help secure funding that directly supports young people and grassroots youth groups
• Develop your fundraising skills across trusts, public funding and partnership bids
• Work in a flexible and supportive organisation with hybrid working options

If you have the skills, experience and enthusiasm to help strengthen Youth Scotland’s fundraising activity and support opportunities for young people across Scotland, we would love to hear from you.

Role Details

Hours:Flexible – between 0.6 FTE (21 hours) and full-time (35 hours). We are open to discussing working patterns with the successful candidate.

Salary:£32,204–£37,327 per annum (full-time equivalent), pro rata for part-time hours

Contract:Permanent

Youth Scotland prides itself on being a flexible employer. Office space is available at our HQ in Edinburgh but, depending on personal circumstances, home-based or hybrid working is available for this role. You will be required in Edinburgh for occasional in person planning or strategy days.