Vacancies

Bendrigg needs you

Creating change, one adventure at a time.

At Bendrigg, we have the setting and the scenery, the equipment and the expertise, the people and the passion. Together we have a limitless supply of adventure, with a limitless determination to improve people’s lives.

Working at Bendrigg

At Bendrigg, our visitors feel ‘celebrated’ rather than just ‘accommodated’ and we want no different for our staff. We understand that everyone is different and try to be as flexible as possible. We are proud to offer a caring and supportive working environment with a number of benefits including:

  • Holidays: Staff receive 30 days paid holiday plus bank holidays (FTE, part-time pro-rata).
  • Lunch: Lunch and refreshments are provided for anyone working on-site from our amazing catering team.
  • Training: Personal and professional development is actively encouraged and rewarded. Staff are provided with opportunities for external training as well as internal training sessions throughout the year.
  • Pension: All employees can take advantage of our pension arrangements whereby contributions of 5% from the employee are matched by 5% from Bendrigg.
  • Sick pay: Company sick pay starts at one week’s full pay for the first six months of employment, rising to six months full pay for five years’ or more of employment.
  • Maternity & Paternity Pay: Statutory Maternity & Paternity Pay
  • Parental leave: We understand that you may need time to settle children into a new school, or you may want to spend more time with a child. Bendrigg offers flexible working as well as 18 weeks unpaid leave for each child up to their 18th birthday (maximum of 4 weeks per year).
  • Emergency Dependant & Compassionate leave: Up to 5 paid days per year.

Current Vacancies

Our current vacancies are listed below. If there are no roles advertised, please do consider looking at our volunteer pages, or getting in touch about freelance opportunities. 

Fundraising and Supporter Engagement Coordinator

Salary:

£23,306 – £26,688 FTE

Hours:

29-36.25 per week (0.8-1FTE)

Location:

Hybrid or Office-based (Kendal). Minimum of 3-days per week in the office

Closing Date:

9am Monday 30th June 2025

Job Description:

The Fundraising and Supporter Engagement Coordinator will join a small but passionate fundraising team, working together to harness the power of adventure to create lasting change and transform communities for all.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day administration that the fundraising team needs to work smoothly, keep our records in order and look after our donors, participants and supporters. You will be well organised, have good attention to detail and confident with both figures and writing work. You will have a lot of contact with our visitors, donors and participants and so you will be a good communicator in person and via other means, as well as friendly and approachable. As well as experience in an administration or customer care role, you may also have worked in a fundraising or marketing team. The successful candidate will also help us to develop news ways to gather feedback from our visitors, so that we can show even more clearly what impact our work has on young people’s lives.

To apply, please download the full job description below and send your CV and a covering letter detailing how you fit the person specification to vacancies@bendrigg.org.uk

We welcome informal enquiries so please do contact us if you have any questions. All enquiries relating to this post should be made to: Lizzie Feltoe, Fundraising Manager, elizabeth@bendrigg.org.uk, 01539 723766