Overview of Organisation:

Heavy Sound is a Community Interest Company, incorporated in 2015, based in East Lothian. We work with disconnected young people and adults, re-engaging them through strength-based activities of interest including music, biking, sports, creative arts, education, mentoring and 1:1 therapy. By building trusting relationships we help inspire positive opportunities for further learning, life skills development, and future training and employment.

16+ Programme:

Heavy Sound transforms the lives of vulnerable, disengaged and, in the main, care-experienced 11–15-year-olds across East Lothian. Based on their needs, we have developed a 16+ Programme to extend this support to provide:

• Life skills development
• Qualifications
• Support into further education, volunteering, training and employment

Participants are referred mainly through education and social work, and engage in a variety of activities including education, music, biking, sports and mentoring, leading to qualifications and awards, and life skills development.

Flexibility in hours is required as there is a weekly evening 16+ drop-in.

Corra Foundation’s vision is for a society in which people create positive change and enjoy fulfilling lives. At Corra we are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We are now recruiting for a 12 month fixed term full-time Communications Support Worker (Storytelling) role. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with relevant skills and experience to join a friendly, hardworking, passionate team keen to make a difference to our communities.

Working across Corra, with the Policy and Communications Team the postholder will deliver communications activity which supports Corra’s communications strategy, including develop and produce stories from Corra’s funded work alongside communities, producing social media content, communication packs, newsletters and website content, as well as designing and delivering events.

The role will support continuous development of our communications strategies, ensuring our communications are accessible, engaging and have impact, as well as supporting the wider Corra team to implement the communications guide and policies. Duties also include looking after systems and records, and liaise with suppliers including designers, web designers and photographers.

The role will require someone who has experience of producing social media content and copy writing, as well as working or volunteering in a communications role or similar. Excellent interpersonal skills, relationship building and communication skills, a willingness to learn, excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, and a commitment to Corra’s ‘ways of working’ principles and supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Tiree Community Development Trust (known as “Urras Thiriodh”) are seeking a Head of Comms and Gaelic to take on a lead role in delivering our ambitious ongoing community development work for the beautiful and vibrant Inner Hebridean island of Tiree.

The newly created role combines management and direct project delivery work and would suit a candidate with relevant experience, strong Scots Gaelic language skills, and a pro-active approach looking to take on a challenge in a unique, bustling and diverse community development environment. You’d join a strong established team with a track record of delivering ambitious projects and vital community services, with the goal of ensuring the sustainable development of a small island community, making Tiree the best possible place to live, work and grow. The role involves working across our company group to support communications with key stakeholders, and with a key focus on embedding the use of Gaelic across our work and ensuring ongoing efforts to retain Gaelic as a living community language.

The role will play a key part in the ongoing delivery of our Community Development Plan – tireetrust.org.uk/the-development-plan.

Please join us at South West Community Transport

Are you passionate about making a difference in communities across Glasgow?

South West Community Transport is seeking a dedicated, experienced and skilled Treasurer to join our team and help drive our mission forward.

About Us

South West Community Transport is a Scottish charity that supports constituted groups and organisations in the south side and north west of Glasgow by offering safe, accessible, affordable and friendly minibus hire. Our registered groups are very diverse; including specialist schools, parent and toddler groups, youth groups, elderly support organisations and charities helping those with physical and/or mental health challenges and those fighting addictions.

We also offer a Patient Transport service which allows hundreds of individuals with no access to a car and unable to use public transport, to reach vital health appointments. This service is provided by voluntary drivers and is free to the users.

Role Overview

As our Treasurer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the financial health and sustainability of South West Community Transport. You will oversee our financial management, reporting and planning, ensuring we continue to support our communities by offering vital transport services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the preparation of the annual budget and annual financial statements to the Board
• Ensure compliance with relevant financial regulations and guidelines.
• Liaise with external auditors and manage the annual audit process.
• Provide financial advice to the board and support strategic planning.
• Monitor cash flow and manage financial risks.
• Present the latest financial position at Board meetings (balance sheet, cash flow, fundraising performance etc)
• Liaise with relevant staff and trustees to ensure that effective financial procedures and controls are in place

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience in financial management, accounting, or a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of financial regulations and best practices.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to present financial information clearly.
• A commitment to our mission and values.

Why Join Us?

• Make a meaningful impact on the lives of individuals and their families.
• Collaborate with a passionate and dedicated team.
• Develop your skills and experience in the charity sector.
• Be part of a forward-thinking organisation.

WANTED - Women who want to make a difference

Women’s Aid East and Midlothian (WAEML) aims to empower women until all women, children and young people are free and safe from domestic abuse. We want to invest in the future leadership of our organisation and are currently looking for six new trustees to join our board of directors.

We’re looking for creative and innovative feminists who can add to the skills mix of our current trustees, share our core values, have a passion for women’s and children’s rights, and uphold our commitment to equality, inclusion and opportunity for all.

We’re in an exciting new phase of growth as we develop our new home in Eskbank, and particularly welcome applicants who can demonstrate skills and experience any of the following areas:

• Fundraising and income generation
• Property management
• Finance
• Marketing and PR
• Digital

We want to improve the diversity of our Board to help improve our effectiveness and the quality of our decision making. We particularly welcome applications from women in black and ethnic minority, LGBT and /or disability communities.

As a Trustee you will have:

• A full induction, training and mentoring
• The opportunity to decide if the role is right for you by attending 2-3 board meetings with other trustees and staff
• Reimbursable expenses
• The chance to develop new skills and make collective strategic decisions which will make a real difference to women and children’s lives.

The expected time commitment is full preparation for six trustee meetings per year (meetings are held on the first Wednesday of alternate months between 6.30pm-8.30pm, either in person at Eskbank, or online), plus one full day strategy/development meeting, and regular contributions to one of our four sub-committees.

The Robertson Trust are looking for a fixed term Programme and Practice Officer to help us to make a real difference to preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland. If you would like to be part of one of Scotland’s biggest independent funders, with the clear aim of tackling poverty and trauma, this role could be for you.

Over the next decade, we have committed to use all of our tools and resources to work with others to reduce poverty and trauma across four themes:

• Education pathways
• Financial security
• Nurturing relationships
• Work pathways

The Programme and Practice team work collaboratively with internal colleagues and a range of external stakeholders to drive ‘big change that lasts’ on poverty and trauma. We work to develop and deliver our proactive funding strategy within the four thematic areas above. In doing so, the team will help to shape the Trust’s influencing work and build our subject and policy expertise across our thematic areas.

Key to our approach will be building relationships with our colleagues, our grantholders and with external organisations and expertise. Crucially, this will include a commitment to placing people with experience of poverty and trauma at the heart of our work.

We are looking for one individual to join our Programme and Practice Team as a Programme and Practice Officer on fixed term maternity cover (12 months from contract start).

Key responsibilities will include:

• Helping to develop and deliver the Trust’s proactive funding plans for our long-term change awards (our Programme Awards) including learning from what we fund now to shape our plans to do so in the future
• Supporting and enabling collaboration across the Trust’s full staff team in relation to our thematic areas across our work to fund, support and influence.
• Building the Trust’s relationships and connections with diverse stakeholders in our thematic areas, placing people and families with experience of poverty and/or trauma at the heart of our work
• Helping the Trust build its subject and policy expertise in our thematic areas
• Helping to shape the Trust’s plans around influencing and delivering social change

A full job description is available on our website.

The person

We are looking for someone with relevant experience in programme development and delivery, who will embody the values of The Trust.

You should have a passion for tackling poverty and trauma, an insight into and understanding of the causes and impacts of poverty and trauma for individuals, families, and communities and ideally some understanding of one or more of our themes.

You must have high emotional intelligence to support our internal and external collaboration work and a keen interest for increasing participation and placing the voice of those with experience of poverty and trauma at the heart of the work that we do.

You should have the potential to build policy and subject expertise and a keen interest for politics to develop a strong judgement in supporting our proactive funding plans and our influencing work.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer. We want to encourage applicants with diverse backgrounds to work with us. We believe that greater diversity of experience, skills and ways of thinking will challenge our thinking and practice on poverty and trauma and broaden our collective knowledge and networks. We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio-economic background. We also encourage applications from those with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact on people’s lives.

Benefits

• Salary £39,906 FTE
• 35 days holiday per calendar year, inclusive of public holidays, which can be taken on a flexible basis apart from the Christmas and New Yer holiday when the Trust closes.
• Pension - 10% employer contribution or 14% if employee contribution is 7%
• Additional employee benefits – an attractive benefits package on offer, which is currently under review.

The Robertson Trust is committed to hybrid and other forms of flexible working. The Trust is open to reasonable adaptations to overcome barriers. We are a Living Wage employer accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

Established in January 2025, Leith and Restalrig Church (LARCH) is a new Church of Scotland congregation, formed from the previous congregations of Leith St Andrew’s, Pilrig St Paul’s and Restalrig St Margaret’s. Our mission is ‘Sharing God’s love with all, serving their needs with inspiration, encouragement and fellowship’.

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Administrator to help deliver the smooth and effective administration of our office and provide a first point of contact for queries from members of the congregation, as well as members of the wider community (including contractors).

For more information about our work, please visit our websitewww.larch.org.uk

As a church community we want to continue to follow God’s leading to make disciples and we are looking to build on and develop these connections in order that those in the local area have the opportunity to find faith in Jesus Christ.

Taking an active leadership role, alongside the minister and congregation, we are now seeking someone with passion and experience in outreach to lead us in extending and developing our existing work, and creating fresh opportunities for making disciples.

You will bring a collaborative approach with experience of leading new initiatives and working positively with volunteers which will enable you to work with us in developing our connections in the community.

We want to enable as wide a range of candidates to apply as possible and so we are open to applications being submitted on a full or part-time basis as well as flexible working.

It is an essential requirement of this role that the post-holder is a committed Christian with a live Church connection which is a Genuine Occupational Requirement in terms of the Equality Act 2010.

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Are you enthusiastic about working with families and young people? Do you have a passion for sharing your faith? Do you have a heart for working in the community? Then you may be the right person to join Granton Baptist Church as our new Family and Youth Worker.

We are looking for someone with vision and enthusiasm who can work with us to enable, support, and grow our existing Christian ministry with families and young people in the church, local schools, and within the wider community; and to explore new potential for outreach. Working with parents, other agencies and organisations including schools and 3rd Sector providers.

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

We are currently recruiting people to join our Board and are actively seeking people to guide the organisation as it transitions and expands.

The objects of the organisation are:

• the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of relieving isolation and improving the conditions of life for the Deaf Community in Lanarkshire
• the relief of those Members of the Lanarkshire Deaf Community in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.

If you are interested and have one or more of the skills, knowledge or experience listed below, please do not hesitate to contact us:

• Working in the Charity Sector
• Finance and/or Accounting
• Human Resources
• Policy Making and Compliance, including Risk Management
• Organisational capacity building and growth
• The barriers the Deaf community faces in one or more of the many different settings including health, education, social services, leisure, employment and other situations.