At a Glance
- Tasks: Promote Gift Aid, assist customers, and manage donations in our charity shop.
- Company: Join a leading charity dedicated to heart and circulatory disease research.
- Benefits: Enjoy discounts, training opportunities, and support while making a difference.
- Other info: Flexible hours and a friendly team environment await you!
- Why this job: Help raise vital funds for lifesaving research and gain valuable experience.
- Qualifications: No specific qualifications needed, just a passion for helping others.
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 and diabetes are all connected and 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.
Could you help us raise life‑saving funds through the Gift Aid scheme? We’re looking for someone to volunteer within our shop to help improve Gift Aid sign‑ups, inform customers about Gift Aid and help other retail volunteers follow the correct processes set by HMRC. This is essentially a volunteer fundraising and administration role within our shop, and you will have the support of the shop team to assist you.
Gift Aid is very important to all charities, as it allows them to reclaim the tax on donations from UK taxpayers. Every time we sell a gift‑aided item, we can claim 25% more from the government – at no extra cost to the donor or customer. We want to improve Gift Aid sign‑ups and sales, as they are a great way to raise more money to fund life‑saving research. We are unable to accept volunteers under 17 or with unspent criminal convictions. Please note this is an unpaid voluntary position in a friendly charity shop.
Typical Tasks- Promoting Gift Aid on the shop floor and helping donors sign up to Gift Aid
- Inputting Gift Aid data into our online systems and maintaining our filing records
- Sorting, pricing and displaying Gift‑Aided donations
- Actively looking for opportunities to generate new Gift Aid donations for our shop
- 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
