# Nicest Job in Britain picks new national philanthropy manager

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/10/12/nicest-job-britain-picks-new-national-philanthropy-manager/
- Published: 2016-10-12T09:20:19+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The new holder of the [Nicest Job in Britain](http://www.nicestjobinbritain.co.uk/)
has been announced, with Alice Biggar from Southampton winning the £30,000 a year
position.**

 

The role will see Biggar travel the country for 12 months to help 40 charities: 
one a week.

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As well as making a 60-second video explaining why they wanted the job, applicants
had to win votes in order to make the shortlist, with the final eight set a challenge
before the interview of raising as much money and awareness for one of The Nicest
Job’s 40 new charity partners as they could. Just over £13,000 was raised for the
eight chosen charities in 10 days.

 

Biggar is the creator of the blog, [Challenge Alice](https://challengealice.com/),
which covered the challenges she set herself in 2015, including living on £1 a day
for a month, and hitch-hiking through Europe for one month to raise money for charity.
Her two-month campaign for the Nicest Job in Britain saw thousands of people including
celebrities Steve Kitchen and Hugh Dennis support her efforts. As part of her finalist
challenge she raised £1,600 for the RSPCA by crawling on her hands and knees through
Bristol city centre for 5km.

 

> Woman who crawled around Bristol Harbourside in a dog onesie rewarded with the
> Nicest Job in Britain | Bristol Post [https://t.co/whSFQOnpq9](https://t.co/whSFQOnpq9)
> — Bristol Live (@BristolLive) [October 6, 2016](https://twitter.com/BristolLive/status/784132169631461377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

 

 

Biggar takes over from [Luke Cameron who held the post last year](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/08/10/nicest-job-britain-relaunches-second-year/),
helping a wide range of charities including: [The British Heart Foundation](https://www.bhf.org.uk/),
[Guide Dogs for the Blind](http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/), Cystic Fibrosis Trust 
and Brain Tumor Research, Help For Heroes, Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Parkinson’s
UK and the Donkey Sanctuary.

 

Cameron said:

 

> “Having already done the Nicest Job in Britain – it’s humbling to be able to give
> another incredible individual the chance to do my old job, and help so many amazing
> people and causes.”

 

The programme is run by [NicestJobs.com](http://NicestJobs.com) and its partner 
[Givergy](https://www.givergy.com/), and charities interested in participating in
the programme in future can be nominated online at: [www.nicestjobinbritain.co.uk/charities](http://www.nicestjobinbritain.co.uk/charities/)

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