Who are we:

Come and join the Refugee Community Kitchen family as our Fundraising Manager. For 10 years, RCK has been cooking and serving delicious, nutritious, culturally relevant hot meals with dignity. More than 2 million meals later, we are still as passionate as ever about supporting displaced people in Northern France and people facing homelessness, rough sleeping, and food poverty in the UK through our street-based services.

We utilise food waste as much as possible and in 2025 we saved 117 Tons of food from landfill. We are dedicated to limiting our environmental impact as much as possible and only use 100% biodegradable materials for all food services.

The charity is still run by the four founders alongside a wonderful, experienced management team that have all been volunteers at one point over the past 10 years.

RCK would not be able to continue the amazing work without the 1000+ volunteers who dedicate their time and skills in our various kitchens year on year.

It is essential that you are knowledgeable and have empathy for those that are either displaced from their homeland or are homeless and living on the streets or in food poverty as these are the people we support daily.

We are a small but mighty team and we need you to come and help us to continue to help others. 

The role:

You will work alongside the Founders and Senior Management Team and will lead on growing our current funding pipeline starting with Trusts, Foundations, Companies / Corporations that will help us maintain and grow our services to reach more people in need.

This role has a lot of scope to grow into over the next 6-12 months as we expand our fundraising into new areas and this is where we want your skills, experience and enthusiasm.

This is detailed more in the Job Description

Working Location 

We would initially want at least 2 days a week in our Gospel Oak office to establish the role and would be happy to discuss a more flexible working pattern once you are settled into the role and our fundraising pipeline is established.

We would on occasion expect you to travel to our kitchen in Calais, France so you can see what we do and how we work every day, this will give you lots of tools to help you with applications and to demonstrate first-hand how the work RCK does is essential.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience securing funding from charitable trusts and foundations.

• Demonstrable success writing successful grant applications

• Experience managing a pipeline of multiple funding applications and deadlines.

• Experience producing grant reports and impact updates for funders.

• Experience maintaining funder relationships and donor communications.

• Experience of presenting information to support requests to corporate and individual donors.

Benefits:

• Working in a caring environment with like-minded people

• Travel

• Great free lunches

Reporting to: Senior Management

Salary: £22,800 Based on £38k FTE 

Hours: 24 hours per week (0.6 FTE). 

Location: Hybrid, At least two days per week at our office in Gospel Oak until you are settled into the role. (willingness to travel to Calais on occasion if necessary - Travel / accommodation expenses covered)

Contract Length: 12 months, with six-month Probation period
Start Date: April / May 2026

Application Timeline

Deadline for applications: Sunday, 5th April 2026 

Interviews: 13th / 14th April 2026 

Interviews can be in person or via video link and will be arranged when you make it to the interview process.

Estimated Start: April/May 2026

Application process

Please submit a cover letter and CV to Steve / Janie to recruitment@refugeecommunitykitchen.org

In your cover letter please detail 

• your previous fundraising positions with examples of fundraising activity that you have led on. 

• Show amounts raised or targets exceeded 

• Types of funding secured, such as trusts, grants, corporate, individual giving, events.

• If applicable - detail any previous volunteering  / work you have done in the Homeless / Humanitarian Aid sector specifically if you have worked with Refugees or displaced people.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to a fair and inclusive recruitment process, so if you need any adjustments during the application or interview process, please let us know. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.