Role Profile
Cancer Research UK are proud of our exciting and diverse special events portfolio, delivered throughout the year by our skilled and dedicated events team.
We create innovative, dynamic and social events that raise vital funds to support our life saving research. As well as generating funds for our work, these events help raise awareness of the work we do and provide our supporters with exciting opportunities to meet like-minded people.
An important element of all of our events team are the passionate and enthusiastic teams of volunteers who help us to deliver our fundraising activities as well as provide guests with a brilliant experience throughout the evening.
Volunteer Roles and Responsibilities
Our key fundraising events are exclusive sit down dinners and the main fundraising activities tend to include raffles, silent and live auctions.
Volunteers are typically asked to carry out the following tasks: 1. Registration and ushering Registering guests on arrival using our online system Zkipster and ushering guests to their seats.
2. Table Hosting Being a point of contact for one or more tables, encouraging guests to take part in the fundraising activities by selling raffle tickets and highlighting the auction prizes on offer.
3. Auction Spotters Helping the auctioneer to spot bids throughout the room during the live auctions.
4. Payment Taking Taking payments on card machines.
Skills Required
Excellent communication skills - Volunteers must feel comfortable speaking to guests, answering queries approaching guests and promoting fundraising activities throughout the night. Sales experience is advantageous.
Confident using technology - Volunteers do not need previous experience with card payment machines as we can do a demonstration during volunteer briefing, however volunteers must feel comfortable processing payments of large sums after this.
Date: 24th September Venue: The May Fair Hotel Time: 16:30 - Late
About the Event:
The May Fair Ball is a fantastic gala dinner which contributes Cancer Research UK’s wider partnership with luxury hotel chain, The Edwardian Group. Cancer Research UK and the Edwardian Group are working together to support the creation of The Francis Crick Institute – a new world class centre of scientific excellence based in the heart of London. Set at the beautiful May Fair Hotel with Beverly Knight and Alexandra Burke rumoured to be performing, this exclusive drinks reception and gala dinner will be an incredible evening! Fundraising on the night will include an auction of top prizes including an idyllic fortnight in Antigua!
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Date: 10th November Venue: The Brewery, Chiswell Street Time: 16:00 – 23:30
About the Event:
Described by Roy Hodgson as “without doubt the greatest night out you’ll have in the City” it is one of the most prestigious sporting events in the Capital.
This flagship event includes a drinks reception, three course dinner, interactive quiz hosted and attended by celebrity guests and the chance to bid on money-can’t-buy prizes. Standard tables are £2,750 and VIP packages are £5,000 (each for a table of ten). The funds raised through The Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK go towards pioneering, life-saving bowel cancer research.
Date: 17th November Venue: Abbey Road Studios Time: Approx. 17:00-22:00
About the Event:
Sound and Vision is an exclusive immersive event which brings an intimate group of 180 hand selected guests from the music, art and finance sectors together and transports them back in time to celebrate some of the most iconic eras in music and art. In collaboration with the production company behind Secret Cinema guests will be taken on a once in a lifetime ride at Abbey Road Studios into the achingly cool world of the 70s. Greeted by a variety of actors and performers they will be immersed in the world of Andy Warhol’s Factory where they will enjoy 70s inspired drinks and canapes whilst viewing an exhibition of 70s rock and roll photography and artwork, including one off pieces signed by David Bowie and Andy Warhol. They will then be transported into history’s most iconic club; Studio 54, where they will enjoy a sit down dinner, an auction of the exhibition and money can’t buy music experiences, as well as secret live music performances from some of the biggest stars from the era alongside modern artists covering their favourite 70s tracks followed by a DJ after party with dancers and performers.
Date: 6th December Venue: The British Museum Time: Approx. 17:00-22:00
About the Event:
Bags, Bangles & Brooches, returns for its third year this December, with a lust worthy array of auction items donated by some of the world’s biggest names in fashion and design to raise money for Cancer Research UK’s Women of Influence campaign.
The event, which is taking place at an exclusive central London location, on Tuesday 6th December, is headed up by senior businesswomen from the retail, publishing, banking, law and politics fields, who have joined forces to raise money to fund female scientists in the fight against cancer. The board of successful women behind the event also aims to inspire young women to consider a career in science through the campaign.
Bags, Bangles and Brooches has raised more than £275,000 to date, with previous guests including model Donna Air, Lady Celia Dunstone, Mrs Moneypenny as well as several editors and journalists from broadsheets and glossy magazines. This year’s event expects to attract a similarly high-profile crowd providing a significant boost to the Women of Influence’s fundraising goal of £1million.
Date: 12th January
Venue: Claridges, London Time: 17:00 - Late
About the event: The Chairwomen’s Club is a brand new fundraising event in aid of Cancer Research UK and the Gynaecological Cancer Fund. The event was inspired by the well- established male only President’s Club event, an annual gala dinner for high profile and extremely successful business leaders, in aid of a range of children’s charities. The Chairwomen’s Club will provide the partners of the President’s Club guests, as well as female business leaders, the chance to enjoy a similar evening of fun and entertainment to raise both funds and awareness of gynaecological cancers. The Chairwomen’s Club will be held on the same night as the President’s Club to create a feeling of friendly competition and rivalry! The event will be a gala dinner for 200 ladies, beginning with a champagne reception, and followed by a three course dinner, entertainment and fundraising.
Please email [email protected] with you name, contact number and the event/s you wish to volunteer at.
Internal CRUK Teams – please refer to your team lieu policy Wherever possible we look to cover travel expenses. This is done on an event-by- event basis and will be outlined in your volunteer brief but do contact us at [email protected] if you have any concerns regarding travel. If you are not based in London please let us know when you sign up If you would like to be excluded from our volunteering emails in the future please reply to this email to let us know. Full volunteer briefs will be circulated a week before the event detailing your role on the night
We really can’t do these events without volunteers so thank you so much for your support! Over the course of the year, our events will raise £3 million for our vital research in to cancer so thank you for making this possible!