National Fundraising Manager (UK)

£50-65k plus bonus

Trinity Group

The opportunity at a glance

Trinity Group is hiring a National Fundraising Manager to lead and scale its UK face-to-face fundraising operation.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who understands the reality of field fundraising and wants genuine ownership of performance, people, and growth — not just another regional management job.

You’ll oversee existing offices, open new territories, coach managers on the ground, and modernise how fundraising is delivered across the UK.

Target: grow to 500+ donors per week nationally.

 

About Trinity

Trinity is the UK & Ireland arm of Global Interactive Group (GIG), an international fundraising organisation founded by industry leaders who wanted to professionalise face-to-face fundraising and move away from outdated, commission-only models.

They’ve built a different kind of agency:

  • Full-time employed fundraisers (not commission only)

  • Paid above the living wage

  • Clear progression structure

  • Ethical, respectful approach to the public

  • Strong client partnerships

  • Long-term sustainability over short-term tactics

Their mission is simple:
Treat people properly. Do things the right way. Deliver results without compromising standards

 

Current stage & growth

Trinity has:

  • 24 fundraisers currently on the ground

  • Offices in Southampton & Bristol

  • London being restructured

  • Manchester planned for restart

Clients include:

  • St John Ambulance

  • Shelter

  • Amnesty

  • NPCC

  • other national charities

The UK business is now entering a scale-up phase, with ambitions to double output year on year.

This hire will be central to making that happen.

The role

What you’ll own

  • UK fundraising performance

  • Regional managers & teams

  • Opening and stabilising new territories

  • Coaching and developing leaders

  • Implementing consistent systems and standards

  • Accountability & reporting

  • Client confidence and delivery quality

This is not a desk-based role.

You’ll be:

  • in offices

  • on the field

  • solving problems in real time

  • building culture

  • making decisions

  • getting things done

What success looks like

  • Teams running consistently and professionally

  • Strong manager capability

  • Modern, ethical fundraising approach (no “old school” tactics)

  • Clear reporting and accountability

  • New locations opened successfully

  • 500+ donors/week delivered sustainably

 

Personal qualities that matter most

  • Hands-on “doer”

  • Proactive and accountable

  • Calm under pressure

  • Practical problem solver

  • Strong communicator

  • Comfortable with autonomy

  • Earns respect on the ground

  • Open to change and new approaches

Not the right fit if you prefer:

  • purely strategic roles

  • corporate desk management

  • old-school/high-pressure fundraising styles

 

Package

  • £50,000–£60,000 base

  • Up to £65,000 for exceptional experience

  • Performance bonuses

  • South England location preferred

  • Some flexibility on working patterns (incl. potential fractional)

 

Why join Trinity

Because you’ll get:

  • Real ownership of a national operation

  • Autonomy to shape how things are done

  • Ethical, people-first culture

  • Direct access to founders/decision makers

  • Clear growth trajectory

  • A chance to build something meaningful

  • Work you can be proud of

 

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Who this suits best:

This role is ideal for someone who:

  • has led F2F teams before

  • enjoys building rather than maintaining

  • prefers action over theory

  • wants autonomy and ownership

  • cares about ethics and standards

  • wants a genuine leadership career, not just another campaign

Experience required

Must have

  • Senior face-to-face fundraising leadership

  • Multi-site/team management

  • Field coaching experience

  • Territory or office launches

  • Systems/process implementation

  • Data literacy (CRM/reporting tools)

Nice to have

  • Training/learning design exposure

  • HR or people development experience

  • Scale-up or start-up environments

  • UK regional mobility

My personal take:

I have worked in face to face for many years and with lots of in-house face to face operations in the UK and overseas. The UK market is a bit messy at the, lots of subcontracting, poor training and not brilliant opportunities. If you listen to some of my podcasts, you can hear about some of the excellent people who came through face to face and have gone onto great things.

Since the demise of Gift, Home and some of the other big agencies, there has been less opportunity for good people to grow and develop under the support and guidance of strong organisations.

So for me it is exciting to see a business like Trinity Group come into the market. They have a great back story, the 2 founders, Paul and Danny, coming from an agency background and deciding to setup as they were not happy with how their employer at the time looked after staff, clients and the general business. They saw a better way of doing things and their success, overseas in the UK, is testament to how far you can go if you do something right.

They have several great charity clients onboard and are making things work, but they recognise that to be truly successful in this field they need a real charity expert to help take the business to the next level. Like me, you know that the charity sector is special and has a particular way of working, talking and thinking. I think this is a fantastic opportunity to really stand out from the crowd and help Trinity Group make a successful and positive impact on the charity and face to face market.

Rory White