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Registration Table for the OH!CON Comic Con:
• First port of call for attendees
• Check tickets for those who have already booked and distribute wristbands to all attending
• Sell tickets where needed and distribute wristbands
• Hand out programmes to all
• Answer queries and point people to activities as needed
Are you passionate about making a difference in your community?
Join us as a volunteer at Marie Curie charity shops, where your efforts will directly support our mission to provide vital care for terminally ill individuals and their families.
As a Retail Volunteer, you'll be the heart and soul of our store, bringing joy to our customers and helping us create a vibrant shopping experience.
Why volunteer in one of our shops?
• Gain retail experience.
• Meet new people.
• Support your local community.
• Donate your skills and knowledge.
• Be part of a friendly team.
Volunteers are involved in a wide range of roles and day-to-day activities that support the running of each store for two hours or more a week.
On the store floor you could be involved with providing excellent customer service, processing transactions on the tills, replenishing stock and putting up eye-catching displays to entice customers in.
Behind the scenes, volunteers get involved with store housekeeping and administration, sorting through donations to find those hidden gems and preparing goods for sale by sorting, steaming and pricing items.
Do you have specific retail skills to donate? We're also looking for volunteers with skills and ideas around visual merchandising, identifying stock generation channels and raising awareness of our charity shops. Using your local knowledge, you could help to maximise the shop’s potential.
Your role will include some of, but is not restricted to, the following tasks:
• Sort through donations, find hidden gems
• Prepare items for sale
• Maintain the shop floor and provide excellent customer service to our shoppers
• Operate the till
• Help out with basic housekeeping
Young Volunteers
Please note: A signed Parent/Guardian Consent Form is required for all volunteers aged 14-17 years.
Merchandise Sales for the OH!CON Comic Con:
• Look after OH!CON merch table
• Sell items and process card sales on SUM UP system
• Record cash sales
• Answer queries and point people to activities as needed
• Take responsibility for all sales items, look for t-shirt sizes, etc.
• Sell raffle tickets
• Keep register for the cosplay masquerades
Based in the Bell Library in Perth, alongside volunteers from other charities, you will be the face of CHAS in the local community.
You will fulfil the weekly Tuesday afternoon shift allocated to CHAS, selling cards to the general public, in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Our share of the money raised will help us to deliver vital services to children with a life-shortening condition and to their families.
What activities will I be involved in?
- Engaging with shoppers
- Taking cash and card payments
- Keeping sales area tidy and secure
- Re-stocking cards
- Representing CHAS
What are the potential benefits to me?
Learning new skills
- Getting involved in your local community and making a real difference to the families of children with a life-shortening condition
- Adding to your CV
- Meeting new people
- Having fun!
What are the benefits to the children and families supported by CHAS?
By selling Christmas cards you are helping to fund our vital services that support children and families at difficult times in their lives.
While volunteering, you are the public face of CHAS and help to raise awareness of our vital services in the community.
What else should I know?
We will pay your out of pocket expenses in line with the CHAS volunteer expenses policy.
CHAS is committed to providing a quality volunteering experience to all volunteers, free from discrimination and prejudice. Ensuring that CHAS is an equal, diverse, and inclusive organisation improves the quality of care we provide, helps us reach more families and children, and maximises a wide variety of knowledge, experience and expertise.
We welcome volunteer applications from those who are refugees, asylum seekers, benefit claimants and those with a disability. We can provide more information about your eligibility to volunteer and any reasonable adjustments we can put in place to ensure your volunteering experience is a positive one. You can contact us on 01577 866065 or email volunteering@chas.org.uk.
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 shops. Our stores sell lots of great donated & new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
Our retail stores are the face of our charity on the high-street and in local communities. We have loads of amazing stock donated to us every week, and this all needs to be sorted, tagged and put on the shop-floor for sale!
Making sure our shops look fantastic is another task you can get involved with. You may also be required to help out on the till too, but we will show you how that works during your time volunteering with us. We value the contribution of everyone who supports Barnardo’s.
You will be a friendly face of Barnardo’s by volunteering in one of our shops. It would be great if you could volunteer one shift a week (or even more if you want) but we’re always happy to be flexible to work around your availability.
Why we want you:
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 stores. Our stores sell lots of great donated and new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
What you will be doing:
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
The skills you need:
Friendly and helpful
Happy to be part of an amazing team of staff and volunteers
Enthusiastic about the work of Barnardo’s
Flexible and willing to do a variety of the shop tasks
What's in it for you:
Have fun and meet new people
Develop skills for your CV including confidence, teamwork and problem solving
Make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families
Learning and development opportunities through our Volunteer Academy which includes access to Level 2 Qualifications and other accredited courses
Full training and experience of working in retail as a volunteer
Other information:
Minimum age 14
Shop based
Location
16 Portland Street, Troon, Ayrshire, KA10 6EA, United Kingdom
Disclaimer
We look to recruit a diverse range of volunteers. If your skills don't fit the above, please do not let this put you off as we are able to be flexible with most of our roles. If you are unable to apply online through the link on this page, please visit your local store for a paper application form or contact the Barnardo's Volunteering Team on volunteering@barnardos.org.uk
Our East Port shop is a small and quite unique part of our retail chain. Nestled in the heart of Dunfermline, we sell a carefully selected mix of clothing, accessories, jewellery and bric-a-brac to a loyal customer base, from brand lovers with an eye for style to discerning collectors who enjoy checking out our stock in a friendly setting. In the East Port Retail team, you’ll be a welcoming face on the shop floor as well as a key part of our upstairs stock room operation so there’s lots of variety in this role.
What activities will I be involved in?
• Welcoming and assisting customers
• Accepting donations and registering donors for Gift Aid
• Merchandising and displaying stock
• Serving customers at the till point
• Creating new and enticing window displays
• Sorting, hanging, sizing and steaming clothes
• Pricing items, under supervision
• Assisting with stock rotation
• Making sure all stock meets our high standards
• Keeping the stock room clean, tidy and well organised
What are the potential benefits to me?
• Learning new skills
• Getting involved in your local community and making a real difference to the families of children with a life-shortening condition
• Adding to your CV
• Meeting new people
What are the benefits to the children and families supported by CHAS?
By selling goods in the shops, you are directly raising the funds that enables us to support children with a life-shortening condition and their family.
What else should I know?
You must be aged 14 or over to apply for this role. If you are younger, you may be able to volunteer if a parent accompanies you. Please get in touch for more information. We have a full youth policy in place to ensure young volunteers are well supported when volunteering.
CHAS is committed to providing a quality volunteering experience to all volunteers, free from discrimination and prejudice. Ensuring that CHAS is an equal, diverse, and inclusive organisation improves the quality of care we provide, helps us reach more families and children and maximises a wide variety of knowledge, experience and expertise.
We welcome volunteer applications from those who are refugees, asylum seekers, benefit claimants and those with a disability. We can provide more information about your eligibility to volunteer and any reasonable adjustments we can put in place to ensure your volunteering experience is a positive one.
Are you passionate about making a difference in your community?
Join us as a volunteer at Marie Curie charity shops, where your efforts will directly support our mission to provide vital care for terminally ill individuals and their families.
As a Retail Volunteer, you'll be the heart and soul of our store, bringing joy to our customers and helping us create a vibrant shopping experience.
Why volunteer in one of our shops?
• Gain retail experience.
• Meet new people.
• Support your local community.
• Donate your skills and knowledge.
• Be part of a friendly team.
Volunteers are involved in a wide range of roles and day-to-day activities that support the running of each store for two hours or more a week.
On the store floor you could be involved with providing excellent customer service, processing transactions on the tills, replenishing stock and putting up eye-catching displays to entice customers in.
Behind the scenes, volunteers get involved with store housekeeping and administration, sorting through donations to find those hidden gems and preparing goods for sale by sorting, steaming and pricing items.
Do you have specific retail skills to donate? We're also looking for volunteers with skills and ideas around visual merchandising, identifying stock generation channels and raising awareness of our charity shops. Using your local knowledge, you could help to maximise the shop’s potential.
Your role will include some of, but is not restricted to, the following tasks:
• Sort through donations, find hidden gems
• Prepare items for sale
• Maintain the shop floor and provide excellent customer service to our shoppers
• Operate the till
• Help out with basic housekeeping
Young Volunteers
Please note: A signed Parent/Guardian Consent Form is required for all volunteers aged 14-17 years.
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.
We prepare clothes from door step collections to actual goods that we can sell in our shops to raise money for Salvation Army. Volunteers are involved in this process.
Are you a social butterfly? Love getting in to conversations? Always have a welcoming smile on your face? Get to know the people from your community with this versatile volunteering role. Gain valuable experience in customer service adding value to your CV.
You’ll be at the heart of the BHF’s fight against heart disease. You will be serving customers, helping to promote our stock and awareness campaigns and encouraging every donor to become part of our 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.