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FACT is hiring: General Manager

Euan Kershaw on 23 June 2025

Title:General Manager
Hours:35 hours per week
(including some evenings and weekends)
Pay:£35k
Contract:Initial 1-year contract, with a view to extend
(to include a three-month probationary period)

Forres Area Community Trust (FACT) is seeking a dynamic, experienced and ambitious General Manager.

FACT is a community charity set up in 2011 to provide long-term sustainable benefits for the Forres area to help make it a better place to live, work and visit.

The post-holder will provide day-to-day leadership of all operational functions at FACT, managing and marketing the organisation’s iconic venue – Forres Town Hall – as well as supervising staff and leading on income generation and fundraising.

Do you have what it takes to become the public face and power behind this valued organisation? We have ambitious growth plans for the charity and the Town Hall, so if you want to be part of shaping the future of FACT, please send your CV, with a covering email outlining how you meet the role criteria, to jackie@forresarea.org.

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Closing date of Sunday the 20th of July 2025.

General Manager Job DescriptionDownload
Equality and diversity monitoring formDownload

Local Place Plan Information Notice

Euan Kershaw on 14 April 2025

Forres Community Council, Forres Area Community Trust, Forres Area Forum and
Community Sports Hub have prepared a proposed Local Place Plan (LPP) for the Forres
Community Council boundary area.

This LPP sets out the ways in which our community wants to see land developed and used
and a spatial vision for our town and has used information from consultations carried out
during the period 2023 – 2024 and is based on feedback received.

The LPP is a way of identifying and helping to deliver community projects and provides
information for other interested organisations. We hope that it will encourage more
collaborative working to enable a positive outcome for the continued improvement and
development of the Forres Community.

If you have comments on the proposed LPP please email them to info.fcc@gmail.com The
deadline for comments is 5pm Sunday 11 th May 2025.

Forres Local Place Plan PDF

FACT is hiring: Finance and Data Officer

Euan Kershaw on 10 March 2025

Finance and Data Officer
12-16 hours per week 
£24,570 –  £27,300 pro-rata, depending on experience/qualifications 

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join FACT as their Finance and Data Officer. This post will help manage multiple streams of funding and performance data for our growing number of projects and services, by accurately and timeously recording the organisation’s financial transactions.

Details of the role are included in the job description.

Closing date of 5pm, Friday 28 March, 2025 (please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received).

Finance and Data Officer Job DescriptionDownload
Equality and diversity monitoring formDownload
Application Form – FACT Finance and Data OfficerDownload

Forres Online: Job Club

Euan Kershaw on 20 February 2025

Forres Online will be hositng a Job Club on the following days:

Friday 7th March
Friday 14th March
Friday 21st March

They’ll be from 12pm – 2pm in the North Room of the Forres Town Hall.

Everyone is welcome to come along to any of the sessions. We’ll be covering different things in each session so it might be worth coming to all three but it’s not required.

“This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Property Fund”

Forres Online Job SeekersDownload

Forres Online: Techie Tea Party

Euan Kershaw on 18 February 2025

Forres Online will be hositng some Techie Tea Parties on the following days:

Wednesday 5th March
Wednesday 12th March
Wednesday 19th March

They’ll be from 1pm – 3pm in the North Room of the Forres Town Hall.

Everyone is welcome to come along to any of the sessions. We’ll be covering different things in each session so it might be worth coming to all three but it’s not required.

“This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Property Fund”

Techie Tea PartiesDownload

Erskine Veterans Activity Centre in Forres Survey

Euan Kershaw on 3 October 2024

Erskine is opening a new Veterans Activities Centre in Forres in December 2024 in the former Victoria Hotel near the War Memorial.

The new Erskine Veterans Activity Centre (EVAC) will aim to improve the quality of life and the wellbeing of veterans by providing them with a dedicated centre where they can socialise, develop new skills and spend time in a welcoming space designed specifically for them.

Please complete this Survey to help Erskine to develop the best service for Veterans in the area.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZZHBC27