Cardinal Hume Centre
The Centre gives homeless young people, families in need and individuals living in poverty the support they need to realise their full potential. The Centre focuses on four areas of need: income, housing, education and skills, and legal status. We believe that by helping early, we can prevent disadvantage in childhood from having a long lasting detrimental impact in later life. Our workforce is…
Description
This is a customer service role encompassing all areas of retail. You will be part of the fundraising team, raising funds to support the work of the Cardinal Hume Centre. Last year sales from the Charity Shop raised £47,000. Be part of a great charity and meet new people, improve your English, customer service and team working skills!
Duties
Flexibility will be given where possible, but in general, volunteers will be asked to undertake the following tasks as part of this role:
- Customer service on the till
- Greeting the customers and helping the customers
- Promoting Gift Aid and the events of the Centre
- Replenishing the stock on the shop floor
- Sorting donations
- Merchandising the stock and displaying accordingly
- Housekeeping on the shop floor and in the stock room
Who will the volunteers be working with?
Other volunteers / charity shop manager
Training
The shop manager will provide training in all aspects of retail e.g. pricing, steaming, working on the till, shop floor display, customer service etc
Time commitment
Ideally volunteers do half days or full days but we are very flexible and even a couple of hours help each week is much appreciated.
Application deadline