Chiltern ADHD Clinic CIC
Bid Writer / Fundraiser - Volunteer
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Volunteer Bid Writer & Fundraising Support – Chiltern ADHD Clinic CIC
About the Role
Volunteer Opportunity: Bid Writing and Fundraising Support ₵ Every Little Stops Isolation
Chiltern ADHD Clinic CIC, a mission-driven Community Interest Company, focuses on breaking barriers for neurodivergent people, families, and the local community by offering free and low-cost support, including workshops, body doubling, and accessible community groups.
To cement our work, we need someone with expertise in bid writing, grant fundraising, and strategic fundraising innovation—more than our small team could fundraise alone. Your input would:
- Bolster our projects, reducing isolation and amplifying the reach of our services
- Shape our sustainability, securing grants to maintain and expand our vital support
- Create impactful outcomes, ensuring access to neurodivergent-friendly spaces in our community
This isn’t just another bid—it’s a chance to ** Embed funding as the lifeline for a neighbourhood thriving on inclusion**.
What Difference Will This Make?
By bringing your skills, Chiltern ADHD Clinic CIC becomes stronger, enabling us to:
✔ Directly consolidate support for midlife parents overwhelmed by ADHD, where funds are scarce but the need is desperate. ✔ Pave the way for workshops and spaces for neurodivergent students and teachers with lived experience as role models. ✔ Stabilise our long-term community initiatives, including coffee mornings for autistic women and seasonal accessibility reviews.
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What Are We Looking For?
We seek a fundraising strategist with high-level bid writing skills, deep grant knowledge and a passion for accessibility. Prefect fit if:
- Three years or more of experience in bid writing, fundraising strategy, project development, or grant reporting.
- Strong track record in health, disability, or mental health settings: the more familiar, the richer the alignment.
Key domains to demonstrate:
- Grant applications: from idea concept to winning submissions
- Funder relationships: researching foundation/fellowship pots
- Collaborative centuries: patient-centric proposals that resonate
- Budget narrative: clear, justifiable spend details for evaluators
Preferred experience:
- Experience in smaller non-profits, startups, or CICs where time is inflexible but creativity matters
- Societal players: ability to raise funds from搜 trusted institutions and specialist foundations.
Core Qualities
Mandatory:
- Curiosity: investigates foundation aims, standing above spreadsheets
- Clarity: transforms complex models into compelling narratives
- Detail: negligence-checks to orthographic standards
- Reliability: momentum and deadline jugglers
Ideal:
- Lived experience (for ADHD/autism/neurodivergence) a bonus, while warm understanding is expected
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What Will You Do?
We don’t have a box ticked; we have challenges. Here’s the how:
✓ Funding Landscape Scans: pinpoint matching grants across the UK and Europe ✓ Criteria Reflection: accuracy navigate funder requirements and cull non-pivotal opportunities ✓ Value-P prometorials: amplify case stories & impact pathways with evidence-based narrative ✓ Projects as Pitches: sharpen budgets, outcomes, and service delivery breakdowns (to avoid rejection letters) ✓ Files as Talking Points: synthesize detailed medication correlates into proactive supporter-summaries
Do not handle: client notes, donor contacts, differential repayments or any finance.
🌿 Flexibility in our Culture All in further if you are:
- Available remotely? Is the commute just your monitor ears. Less is more.
- Eager to listen & edit as part of mutual growth
- Able to **troubleshoot, template future bids, team on outreach
Further Support
Joining us opens doors. Mindful of:
- Neuro-divergent volunteers making wisdom through advocacy, funds go further. Free and open to curious minds.
- Body-doubling options: opt into our wellness groups for pairing on broad strokes.
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