Do you always have a welcoming smile on your face and love getting into conversations? Why not get to know the people from your community through this versatile volunteering role? Gain valuable experience in customer service and add value to your C.V. You'll be at the heart of BHF's fight against heart disease. You will be serving customers, promoting stock and BHF's awareness campaigns and encouraging every donor to become part of BHF's Gift Aid scheme. If you want to get to know the community around you, this is a perfect way to integrate yourself into your local area and maybe spread the volunteering 'bug' to new recruits.

The purpose of this role is to maximise the amount of excess donations Fresh Start receives which cannot go into Starter Packs and can be sold in Fresh Start Shop. The main aim is to reduce waste, recycle, reuse and divert items away from landfill. This role is based in Fresh Start warehouse.

The aim of Fresh Start Shop in the first instance is to provide a much needed and valuable service to the local community and offer volunteering opportunities to local people, our service users and the wider community. This role includes sorting and pricing donations and requires some creativity in displaying items to appeal to customers. Experience of working in retail or in other charity shops is an advantage.

Learning new skills. Helping a charity whilst having fun at the same time. Development of talents that we value such as communication skills, numeracy, teamwork and taking responsibility.

Clan Cancer Support, in partnership with Wild in Art, is set to shine a light across the north-east, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Orkney and Shetland with ‘Light the North’ the lighthouse trail in Autumn 2021. This is the latest art sculpture trail in Scotland following on from Oor Wullie to inspire artists, school and the public from across the country while raising vital funds for Clan Cancer Support. At the end of trail, each of the lighthouse sculptures will be auctioned off and the funds raised will help Clan to support even more people affected by cancer. In the lead up to and during the trail, we have various volunteer opportunities available. This includes assisting at our Pop-Up Shop, located in Aberdeen’s Bon Accord Centre, which will be the hub of all things Light the North with merchandise for sale, trail maps, and sculptures on display. You will engage with shop visitors by providing information on Clan and Light the North, promote and sell merchandise, and encourage donations to Clan. You will also help fulfil online merchandise orders. Please note this role involves standing for periods of time and some cash handling. If you are interested and available to help out, we would be so grateful to have your support. Please follow this link to sign up for any days and times that you would be able to help: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/409084AAEAA2BA5FB6-light3 Further details are also available at: https://www.lightthenorth.co.uk

Volunteers help ensure the shop is tidy and attractive; you can use your creativity to make eye-catching window displays, sorting and replacing stock to keep the shop looking fresh and stylish. Incoming donations are organised and labelled, and clothes steamed and tagged. Our polite, approachable volunteers assist customers; welcoming them through the door, ringing purchases through the cash register and encouraging signing up to the Gift Aid scheme. A bonus of volunteering in this role is having access to great quality items at reasonable prices, as soon as they hit the shop floor! In the shop volunteer role you will develop your understanding of stock management, marketing and customer service. These skills are valuable for personal development as well as very relevant to careers in retail, advertising and business. You will have the opportunity to meet lots of people, play an active role in your community and make friends.

Wick Cancer Research charity shop are looking for volunteers to help in the shop. General retail, customer service, sorting donations preparing items for sale and making transactions

Opening & closing the shop. Daily admin & accountancy tasks. Monitoring performance & training the team. Understanding sales figures & targets.

We are looking for volunteers who love meeting new people and want to make a difference to help us run our shop in Trinity. You will be helping us with the day to day running of the shop, sorting through donations and serving our customers on the till. If you have an eye for design then you can help us to keep our shop looking loveley so customers want to browse.

We require a Bric a Brac Sorter at Barnardo’s Donation Centre whose role will be to identify the gems in our donated items, we are looking for someone who can identify and price the more valuable items we get through our donations. Part of the role is to select and sort stock and to display them so that we can promote them to our customers. An interest in antique or unusual items would be an advantage.