Your Pride In London 

2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Pride in the UK which makes it an exciting time to join Pride in London as a volunteer as we build for the future!

Pride in London has a renewed sense of purpose to highlight the challenges still facing the LGBT+ community today despite progress. We are run by a group of volunteers who are passionate about equality and diversity and are drawn from all walks of life. Pride aims to raise awareness of LGBT+ issues and campaign for the freedoms that will allow all of our community to live their lives on a genuinely equal footing.

Around 150 people volunteer year-round to help us deliver what has become a world-class Pride. It is our intention for Pride in London to best represent all parts of our community.

We continue to actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, particularly women, people of colour and those from the trans and non-binary communities. 

Your new volunteer role

This is a volunteer opportunity requiring a weekly time commitment of approx. 4 or more hours per week.

The purpose of this role is to design, guide, manage and oversee the grant application and decision making process. This includes management of initial sifting and decision making.

The Grant Manager will be responsible for reviewing applications, commencing due diligence processes for applicants and sharing information with the board for final decisions. In addition they will be responsible for managing the live grants and have responsibility for progress reporting, management and analysis. Other responsibilities include:

Grant making:

• Being the central point of contact for Pride in London by e-mail, letter or phone including notifying applicants of the process and decisions made by the Board.
• Contributing to the development of the application review process (scoring/feedback systems).
• Supporting the wider team with application reviews including compiling completed applications and managing the collation of scoring/feedback. 
• Leading on the due diligence process to inform board decisions.
• Tracking of grantee progress reporting and communications with the grantees. 
• Managing and administering relationships with successful grantee. 
• Managing annual visits to all grantees including facilitating Director visits where needed.
• Annual reporting of impact of grants overall including collating feedback, data and information to monitor performance and impact overall.

Finance and fundraising activities: 

• Financial reporting to the board and other third parties as required.
• Liaising with the fundraising team on work to develop the fund.

 What you’ll get joining Pride in London  

• A friendly and welcoming induction course and a variety of training that’s offered throughout the year 
• An opportunity to get new and relevant professional experience
• A chance to broaden your professional network
• Play an important part in delivering the Pride in London event 
• Social opportunities to meet the diverse and friendly bunch who volunteer for Pride in London

Diversity & Inclusion

Our volunteer team is more than amazing – they inspire great ideas, generate needed sponsorship, drive forward our operational plans and help make Pride in London a fantastic place to volunteer and work.

We endeavour to attract and recruit a diverse mix of employees and volunteers who are representative of the diversity in our LGBT+ communities which gives us a great opportunity to have access to a broad range of ideas and allows us to to deliver an inclusive event that you expect from Pride in London.