🏗️ The Dual-Structure Funding Strategy

You will independently manage and execute the funding pipelines across both entities, ensuring they complement each other seamlessly and legally:

• For the Charity (CIO): You will identify, research, and secure restricted and unrestricted funding from UK institutional funders, National Lottery streams, and arts councils, leveraging our Gift Aid status.
• For the Social Enterprise (CIC): You will secure corporate CSR/ESG sponsorships from major retail fashion brands, monetise our LFD Reworked upcycled fashion lines, and pitch for local authority commercial contracts.

🚀 Core Responsibilities

• Pipeline Management: Map out and drive a 12-month rolling funding strategy to secure long-term financial sustainability for our projects and core operations.
• High-Value Bid Writing: Lead the writing and submission of compelling grant applications (£20k to £100k+) to UK trusts, public foundations, and institutional bodies.
• Corporate Partnerships: Source, pitch, and close deals with major fashion brands to secure corporate sponsorships, deadstock material donations, and paid corporate workshop bookings.
• Budgeting Your Retainer: Seamlessly factor your own ongoing consultancy fees/permanent salary, alongside core operational overheads and management fees, into every grant application and commercial tender.
• Strict Regulatory Compliance: Work within the boundaries of UK charity and CIC regulations, ensuring all incoming funds are cleanly allocated and tracked.

🎯 About You

• Established Freelancer: You operate as an independent contractor or sole trader and are fully comfortable with performance-linked B2B contracts.
• Proven Bid Winner: You have a verifiable track record of writing and securing significant UK grant funding (£50k+) or closing B2B corporate sponsorships within the creative, fashion, or social sectors.
• Execution-Focused Mindset: You excel at taking an established brand asset and doing the heavy leg work required to translate that vision into a highly fundable, structured proposition.
• Compliance Savvy: You understand the strict legal divide between charitable grants and commercial trading income in the UK.

💎 Compensation & Contract Terms

To ensure total compliance with UK charity regulations, your compensation is strictly split between commercial commissions and budgeted project fees:

• Phase 1 (Immediate Commercial Commission): You will receive an immediate 20% commission on gross revenue from all corporate sponsorships and brand collaborations you secure, and a 10% commission on B2B retail orders for our LFD Reworked line. All commission is paid legally through the CIC.
• Phase 2 (Fixed Retainer/Salary): In compliance with UK funder rules, institutional grants cannot pay percentages. Instead, every grant proposal you write will budget for your ongoing position as a fixed project cost at a targeted bracket of £40,000 – £45,000 pro-rata. Once a bid lands, you transition immediately to a secure, fixed contract.

📩 To Apply

Please submit your freelance day rates, LinkedIn profile/CV, and a brief summary detailing your largest funding or bid-writing wins to info@londonfashiondistrict.org.