Ben Petts Email & Phone Number

Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

East Midlands

This role expands on my previous position, including all the duties and account management skills.• Leadership of five Local Fundraising Manager’s spreading across the East Midlands. • Supporting the team to achieve personal goals and developmental objectives.• Carrying out 121’s with the Team each Quarter to work on longer term goals and personal objectives. • Learning and Development Champion for the Region, attending workshops and delivering these to the regional team.• One of three Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions for the Fundraising and Marketing directorate representing 400 members of staff as the point of contact for EDI best practice. • Responsibility to complete accurate monthly commentary on regional income, loss and mitigation plans. • Responsibility to deliver a monthly review of our regional pipeline, extracting the data of the movement and adding to graphs to show team movement and reporting on this. • Working alongside the Regional Manager in proposing strategy for the financial year with focus on each campaign to maximise income across our fundraising groups, corporate partners and individuals. • Reviewing data and information from fundraising registrations across our area to find out where the highest concentration of signups are, in order to inform our targeting with specific fundraising initiatives in mind.Additional Information• Successful delivery of a social media workshop to our team with my Regional Manager complementing that it was the “best team meeting session” the region has had. • Collaboration across Cancer Research UK with my Senior Local Fundraising Manager network, our Trading Partners, Events and Legacies and Finance.

Lincolnshire & Newark

The purpose of this role is to create and manage corporate partnerships whilst fueling and leading community fundraising relationships across Lincolnshire and the surrounding areas. Please see relevant achievements and skills below:Corporate Relationship Management• Empowered Loughborough RAG students in their fundraising for an Arctic challenge. The first challenge of this kind Cancer Research UK has supported. I provided newsletters, R&R and presentations to the student team as part of the Student Union’s bespoke supporter journey. • Successful relationship manager of a national corporate’s fundraising over two regions with expected income of £90k this year.• Constructed new corporate partnerships from the very beginning.• Promoting relevant campaigns and monthly awareness activities. Community Relationship Management• Organiser of the first Local Committees Conference in Lincoln for my groups to share their ideas and best practice.• Co-ordinator of the Louth Run for Life committee; hosting a mass participation event. Exhibiting skills inclusive of evaluative thinking and events knowledge.• Supporting of a number of committees raising a total in excess of £80k this financial year.Additional Information• Accurate forecasting and commentary on a monthly basis working to strict targets.• Collaborative working with a number of different teams within Cancer Research UK • Understanding and knowledge of Siebel – Cancer Research UK Database• Experience of home working and frequent travel.• Attendee of the Relay For Life Expo 2016

Lincoln, United Kingdom

As part of Enlighten UK I have actively, built relationships with local schools, college's and universities.Enlighten UK has also had a presence at the 2018 TEDx Brayford Pool and has been a part of the Bishop Grosseteste University Evening of LGBTQ+ History as a speaker. I have attended local College fairs to promote the work of Enlighten UK with topics surrounding:- Race- Sexuality - Gender Identity - Religion- Disability

Lincoln, United Kingdom

The responsibility of this role was to secure income in and around Lincoln by creating and managing events, corporate and community fundraising relationships.Key Achievements and Skills• Exceeded our team events target by 72%• From the beginning of my time in the role, I was breaking hospice participant records whilst generating creative ideas which the trust had not seen before.• I played a key role in organising Lincolnshire's first Colour Dash which raised a record amount of money in the Hospice’s history.• The ability to keep expenditure low by executing an event with no outlay which raised over £3,000.• Excellent organisational skills with an event calendar with over 20 events.• Volunteer management as they assisted with events, had monthly meetings and attended public hosted events on behalf of the hospice.• Experience of managing budgets up £15k.

Lincoln, United Kingdom

• Assisting with steward meetings, recruitment of volunteers and managing the annual Light Up a Life service - St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice is one of the only Hospices in the UK which has a torchlight procession.• Contributed greatly to an income of £12,000.00 for a Strictly Ballroom Fundraising event.• Extensive computing skills, Microsoft programs, Photoshop, InDesign and Donorflex.• Working to tight deadlines in a fast paced environment, practical problem solving.

Lincoln, United Kingdom

Bachelor'S Degree, Drama In The Community, 2:1

Throughout my degree, we worked within different community settings such as: local schools, nurseries and special educational needs.

A Level, Communication And Media Studies

While I was a student at Havering Sixth Form I studied A Levels in: Drama & Theatre Studies Media Studies Applied ICT