At a Glance
- Tasks: Engage with customers, manage the cash desk, and support shop operations.
- Company: Join the British Heart Foundation and make a difference in heart health.
- Benefits: Enjoy discounts on goods, training opportunities, and travel expense reimbursement.
- Other info: Flexible volunteering hours in a supportive and inclusive environment.
- Why this job: Help fund lifesaving research while gaining valuable retail experience.
- Qualifications: Must be 17 or older; no prior experience needed, just a friendly attitude.
The predicted salary is between 22000 - 25000 £ per year.
Overview
Our charity funds around £100 million of research each year into all heart and circulatory diseases and the things that cause them.
Heart diseases.
Stroke.
Vascular dementia.
Diabetes.
They're all connected, and they're all under our microscope.
Our volunteers help us fund lifesaving science to improve the lives of families and loved ones living with heart and circulatory disease.
Volunteering with us is easy, flexible, and inclusive.
If you can spare a few hours a week, or a couple of hours occasionally, we’d love you to join our volunteer team.
Responsibilities
Typical tasks include
- Engaging with customers and serving them in a helpful and friendly way
- Answering questions from customer, donors and supporters
- Communicating with fellow volunteers about what has sold and needs re-stocking
- Honing your retail and cashier skills behind the till and taking payments
- Helping with administration and reception duties around the till area
- Promoting Gift Aid and sales campaigns
Requirements
Just so you know, we are unable to accept volunteers aged under 17 or with unspent criminal convictions.
Please note this is an unpaid voluntary position in a friendly charity shop.
Benefits
- Volunteering with British Heart Foundation comes with plenty of benefits too…
- A 25% discount on donated goods and 10% discount on New Goods in our shops
- Unlimited, free, and confidential support by Retail Trust
- Access to training and development
- Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed
- Refreshments available
- Volunteer certificates, references and long service awards provided
- Access to discounts with other retailers
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