As Fundraising Lead at Bloomsbury Football Foundation, you will drive growth for a £3m portfolio within the UK’s fastest-scaling sport-for-good charity. You’ll manage high-value relationships, craft persuasive multi-year proposals, and pioneer AI-driven fundraising strategies. This is a high-responsibility role offering direct exposure to senior leadership as we expand our life-changing impact to 40,000 children nationwide.
Fundraising Lead at Bloomsbury Football Foundation
Join Bloomsbury Football Foundation, a high-growth sport-for-good charity that has scaled its income from £1m to £5m in just a few years. As Fundraising Lead, you’ll drive growth within a £3m Trusts & Foundations portfolio, working directly with senior leadership to secure multi-year, seven-figure commitments. This isn't your typical charity role; we are pioneering AI-enabled fundraising tools and targeting population-level impact for over 40,000 young people across the UK by 2031. Whether you come from consulting, finance, or politics, if you have a sharp intellect and a hunger to scale a national organization, we want to hear from you.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£27k-£36k
Company
Bloomsbury Football Foundation
Role overview
Bloomsbury Football Foundation is a registered charity based in London that uses the power of football to improve the lives of young people across the city. It runs fun, affordable football and futsal programmes for boys and girls aged roughly 3–21 of all abilities, delivered through community sessions, leagues, and its Football Academy pathway.[8][4] The organisation focuses on improving mental and physical health, fostering social cohesion, and teaching valuable life skills, and supports over 5,000 young people each week through its programmes.[1] Its mission is to ensure every young person in London can access high-quality football training, with a financial model designed so that no one is turned away regardless of background or ability to pay.[1][8] Alongside grassroots and academy training, Bloomsbury partners with organisations such as LALIGA to broaden access to the sport and provide additional development opportunities for participants.[5]
What you will do
- Own the end-to-end grant lifecycle for a complex portfolio, from conducting in-depth prospect research to writing high-impact, tailored proposals for major trust and foundation partners.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to manage funder stewardship and reporting, ensuring long-term partnership retention and securing repeat multi-year funding commitments.
- Help lead the integration of AI-enabled tools into the fundraising pipeline to improve system efficiency and pioneer new methods of data-driven funder engagement.
Who this is a fit for
- Outstanding written and verbal communicator with a sharp intellect, able to distill complex social impact data into persuasive, professional narratives for sophisticated audiences.
- Proactive professional with experience in fast-paced environments like consulting, banking, politics, or high-growth charities who thrives when given significant independence and responsibility.
- Highly organized project manager capable of juggling multiple competing deadlines and tracking grant requirements across a large portfolio without losing attention to detail.
Why this role is remarkable
- Significant Scale: Join an organization that has grown income 5x in record time and is aiming to become the first sport-for-good charity in the UK to achieve population-level impact.
- High-Level Exposure: Work directly with the Director of Fundraising on seven-figure commitments and represent the foundation in high-stakes meetings with senior decision-makers at major UK foundations.
- Tech-Forward Culture: Benefit from an agile environment that prioritizes personal growth, a “best idea wins” mentality, and the innovative use of AI to revolutionize fundraising processes.
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