Fundraising & Administration Assistant | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£25,760 - £27,476 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Preston, PR2 9HT
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Oct 2026
Closing date:	5 Nov 2026

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Summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity including Baby Beat currently has an exciting opportunity foryouto join our team as aFundraising and Administration Assistant, based at Royal Preston Hospital. This is a full-time role that combines office-based work with time spent in the community, attending fundraising events and supporting our valued donors and volunteers. In return, you'll receive a competitive salary and become part of a passionate, high-achieving team.

Our charity raises almost £1m annually through a varied and dynamic portfolio of activities. We’re looking for someone enthusiastic, hardworking, and flexible—ready to meet the challenge and play a key role in one of the region’s most successful Hospital charity's.

If you want to make a real difference to the lives of local patients and are keen to begin or develop a career in the charity sector—whether or not you have previous fundraising experience—we’d love to hear from you.

Support the Lancashire Teaching Hospital Charity team including Baby Beat to implement multi-year strategies to increase income and

support for them across all areas of fundraising, ensuring donors and supporters receive appropriate stewardship, as well as providing retail administrative, charity administrative and finance support.

You will often be the first point of contact with donors, customers, volunteers, supporters, Trust staff and suppliers.

This post is predominately office-based working with the need to work in the community at fundraising events along with supporting and stewarding the charity’s supporters and donors.

You’ll need to be flexible, enthusiastic, and confident when working with the public, as you’ll sometimes represent the charity at community events.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable experience in a supportive and fast-paced charity environment, where your contribution will truly make a difference.

A car and driving license are essential for this post as the post holder will be required to drop of fundraising resources, meet with donors and fundraisers, support fundraising events and attend third party fundraising activities and functions across Lancashire.

Here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity, we are dedicated to making a difference to the thousands of patients treated at our hospitals every year.

Our aim is to enhance the services already provided by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, so that patients treated at our hospitals have access to the best possible care, in the very best facilities.

Our support helps us go above and beyond the scope of the NHS by making a difference in four key areas:

• Funding projects such as patient services and comforts

• Funding specialist equipment

• Supporting patients needs and staff welfare

• Supporting the advancement of clinical research

We can fund those added extras that can make all the difference to our patients, when they need it the most.

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for complete details. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing general fundraising support across all areas as needed

• Support the charity team to grow income through excellent

stewardship and relationship support. This will include

supporting wider fundraising activities and leading on lower value

fundraising initiatives

• Provide administrative support for whole Hospital charity team

(including Baby Beat), including but not limited to:

To log donations and generate acknowledgement letters via the

donor database

To assist with general finance tasks and the counting and banking

of monies in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions Administration and processing of various digital donation and event

entry platforms such as Just Giving, Enthuse and Trybooking

• Contributing to donor recruitment, donor retention, and the development of fundraising programmes and events.

• Baby Beat Shop administration including but not limited to the

processing of shop income and expenditure, ordering of all stock,

stock pricing, stock control and annual stock takes to ensure

maximum profitability. Responsible for producing monthly retail reports as required to support financial accounting and audit requirements

• Supervision of shop volunteers ensuring that the shop rota is

coordinated to maximise opening hours

This advert closes on Tuesday 20 Oct 2026

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