At a Glance
- Tasks: Create eye-catching displays and prepare donated homewares for sale in our charity shop.
- Company: Join the British Heart Foundation, funding vital research into heart and circulatory diseases.
- Benefits: Enjoy discounts, training opportunities, and support while making a difference.
- Other info: Flexible volunteering hours in a friendly environment, perfect for students.
- Why this job: Gain retail experience and help create a world free from heart disease.
- Qualifications: No specific qualifications needed, just a passion for homewares and creativity.
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.
Interested in collectibles, homewares and bric-a-brac?
If this sounds like you then this could be your perfect volunteering role.
Get involved in creating exciting and eye-catching displays of collectibles and homewares in our store.
You’ll also be involved in selecting and preparing donated homewares to get them ready for sale.
This is an opportunity to share your skills or to get a taster of a career in retail while helping us create a world free from the fear of heart disease.
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.
- Typical tasks
- Following our display guidelines and using your creative skills to maintain attractive displays of homewares in our charity store
- Keeping our homewares department fully stocked with fresh items
- Sorting out and cleaning donated ornaments, collectibles and pictures
- Following our guidelines to value and price donated ornaments, collectibles and pictures
- 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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