[Hiring] Charity Pot Panellist @Lush

Role Description

The UK Charity Pot team is now looking for panellists to join for a 12-month rolling period to review Charity Pot applications and allocate funds to grassroots charities.

As a panellist, you will be working peer-to-peer with the rest of your panel of like-minded charity and activist enthusiasts to discuss, vote and agree on where our Charity Pot donations should go.

There are three panels for our three branches of funding within Charity Pot; Animal protection, human rights and environment. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with some amazing activist minds within the company.

We are looking for people who would like to take part in our Charity Pot panels alongside their current role at Lush. The number of hours required to be a panellist will vary, though on average it will require approximately 12 hours a month. Any hours spent as a panellist will be included in your contract hours for your current role, this will mean an equivalent reduction of hours spent in your current role but will not affect your contract hours.

Qualifications

• A passion for activism and for Charity Pot
• In-depth knowledge of your area of interest
• Excellent communication skills
• Active involvement with charities, groups or networks linked to animals, environment or human rights, for example, volunteer work or campaigning
• Any charity work, volunteering or relevant qualifications, i.e in permaculture
• Attention to detail, highly organised
• Great verbal and written communications

Requirements

• Listening to and learning from the other panel members
• Making decisions on applications in line with the funding guidelines
• Discussing thoughts and ideas
• Researching applications and considering where possible funding would be best placed
• Reading through documents to take away important information and summarise
• Meeting with the panel to discuss proposals and feedback
• Recording detailed notes for record-keeping on decision-making and to provide feedback on unsuccessful charity applications.

Company Description

Charity Pot was set up in 2007 with the aim of supporting small, grassroots organisations that could use a helping hand to continue the incredible work that they do.

• We raise money for Charity Pot by selling a hand and body lotion of the same name.
• 75% of the retail price paid by customers buying these products (minus the VAT, which has to go to the Government) is given away to fund grassroots organisations working on animal protection, human rights and environmental issues around the world.
• We prioritise groups campaigning to create long term change which will benefit large sections of society.
• We try to help those whose radical stance and approach might make it difficult for them to source funding from elsewhere.
• We prefer to fund smaller organisations, especially those who have limited resources and struggle to find funding elsewhere.
• Charity Pot grants provide targeted funding to the small, grassroots groups.
• Charity Pot is available in more than 35 different countries around the world and has raised over £80 million globally since its launch.