Gemma Boyle Email and Phone Number

Harris Hill is the largest specialist recruiter of charity jobs for charitable organisations in the UK. We deliver permanent and temporary placements at every level. For candidates, we pride ourselves on identifying your talents and skill sets so we can match you to the ideal opportunity. For clients, we ensure that we understand exactly what your requirements are so we can lead the best candidates to you.No other organisation recruits for more permanent and temporary vacancies up to executive level for charities across the UK and internationally. I specialise in recruiting into Events Fundraising in the third sector, including challenge, special and membership events.

Delivering a range of events from start to finish to meet financial targets and objectives, including the London Marathon, Prudential Ride London and the Royal Parks Half Marathon. This includes recruiting, stewarding and building relationships with fundraisers and participants to ensure they reach their targets and have a positive experience with the Stroke Association. As well as retaining their support to continue fundraising with the charity in the future.For all events, I provide ongoing support and suggestions to assist with fundraising. This includes promoting seasonal or topical fundraising from raffles to quiz nights, and providing the necessary materials to make the event a success (e.g. collection tins, posters).Communicating regularly with the Health and Safety department, ensuring the events meet all requirements and complies with best practice.Researching and securing venues that fit the event and the organisation requirements and branding.Advertising, recruiting and managing volunteers to support on the day of events ensuring they represent the brand positively and enjoy their time with the charity. Attending the Charity's bespoke events, third part events and fundraiser volunteers' events. This includes, speaking on behalf of the Charity and being a visual representative, upholding the values of the Stroke Association.

To provide support to Stroke Association Events Team in London; assisting the team in the successful delivery of the Stroke Associations’ fundraising events calendar, with the ultimate aim of increasing net income for the organisation. To support and steward the event participants, volunteers & supporters.This includes:Event Planning - Assisting in the preparation of events, supporting the team with organising event equipment and materials. Helping prepare for and attend all fundraising events organised by the department. I had full responsibility for supporting participants in a range of third party events including Berlin Marathon, London Triathlon and Action Challenges.Project Work - Support the Events Team with the development, planning and delivery of our flagship event: The Thames Bridges Bike Ride, as well as assisting the Team with new event research and proposals.Customer Care - Recruiting participants & volunteers for all events, welcoming, thanking, and all contact in between, ensuring our participants are motivated and appreciated. Building relationships with event enquirers and participants to ensure they receive a positive experience of Stroke Association and to develop their commitment to the organisation. Marketing - Working with the Events Officer and Events Manager to maximise the website, intranet, twitter and other free to use marketing opportunity. Undertake significant event mailings and e-mailings to secure new event participantsFinance - Managing the events online credit card processing facility. Processing card payments and informing relevant team members of payments processed. Handling all income records for event participants and justgiving reporting, when required, ensuring all information is logged and stored on our internal database.Database Work - Creating, monitoring & maintaining all records using the Stroke Associations database & to subsequently maintain meticulous donor records and administrative systems.

To be the first point of contact for all incoming fundraising enquiries for the London team at Stroke Association, ensuring a smooth running of the fundraising office by providing effective administration support and help with fundraising events.This includes:-Cash Handling – dealing with all incoming donations from collection tins to CAF cheques, acknowledging safe receipt to donors following cash handling procedures. Recording monthly income and preparing appropriate spreadsheets and inputting relevant information onto fundraising database ThankQ. Thanking fundraisers and participants at the end. - Managing and maintaining the London Fundraising Inbox with all enquiries, responding within 3 days, whilst providing supporter care and building relationships with supporters from start to finish. Dealing with telephone calls and face to face contact with supporters visiting the centre in a helpful and confident manner.-Maintain existing data records, updating when necessary and prepare mailouts as required using database. - Assisting in writing and preparing interesting copy to include in newsletters, posters etc.- Organising and scheduling all tweets and twitter activity for the fundraising team. - Maintaining the efficient organisation and running of fundraising events on the day as required by the Community & Events Fundraising Manager and members of the Fundraising Team- Overseeing office procedures- filing, keeping up stock levels of fundraising materials and leaflets, liaising with colleagues to ensure stationery requirements and updating display boards in the office and around the centre - Supervising any volunteers recruited to assist with general administrative duties & registering them on our CRM database - Assisting with establishing new fundraising initiatives through research and telephone contacts

Assisting the Reception and Office Management team to ensure the efficient running of the King's Road office of one of London’s foremost architectural and urban design companies- Dealing with general reception duties, including greeting visitors and clients, and answering all inbound telephone calls - Providing an attentive and proactive service to achieve excellent client service- Ensuring sustenance provision to clients and visitors to the office, including during meetings held in office- General administration assistance as required; including photocopying, updating stationary provision, taking deliveries and ensuring delivery of any post or packages

Responsibilities included:- Navigating traffic software “Trafficlink” to keep a constant check on incoming traffic news- Researching and gathering important local information to utilise in hourly bulletins to be read on air- Appearing on air to perform the traffic and travel announcements, as well and interacting with the presenter