The main purpose of this role is to support recruitment and management of volunteers for our Christmas Day event at Jacksons Lane. This position requires working on Christmas Day 2025. Each year, we open our doors on 25th December for older and disabled people in the area, who would otherwise be spending Christmas Day alone. Guests arrive through the generosity of volunteer drivers and enjoy a hot Christmas meal, a drink or two, some fantastic entertainment, gifts, and a visit from Santa. Christmas Day has been held at Jacksons Lane for over 40 years - historically run entirely by a team of external volunteers. For many, helping out here has become as much of a tradition in their families as stockings, carols and cold turkey sandwiches on Boxing Day. During the pandemic we started a successful Christmas hamper delivery service, reaching over 300 older adults across North London. In 2023, we will be hosting up to 100 older adults in person at Jacksons Lane, and deliver Christmas hampers to a further 200 older adults, as well as feeding approximately 60 volunteers on the day. This post is a freelance, fixed-term contract. Working 48 days between September 2025 and January 2026 (15 hours per week). This position requires working on Christmas Day 2025. Renumeration for this post will be a salary of £7,680. To work collaboratively with the Christmas Day team at Jacksons Lane to coordinate and deliver a successful Christmas Day project at Jacksons Lane. To be responsible for volunteer recruitment, support and training, for allocating volunteer roles for the project and for all communications with volunteers. To be responsible for the coordination of the delivery service, including coordinating drivers and mapping routes, and anything to do with the organisation of the hampers. To be responsible for the coordination of guests travel to and from the event on the day, including organising accessible transport options, mapping routes and scheduling volunteer drivers. To apply for the role send a copy of your CV and a covering letter or video/audio file to [email protected], including your full name and Christmas Day Volunteer Coordinator in the subject line of the email. If you wish to discuss the role before you apply, we would like to offer you the chance to attend an informal 1:1 chat with a member of the team. To take up this opportunity please email [email protected] to arrange a meeting.Job Summary
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