Volunteer Charity Shop Stock Assistant
2 weeks ago
**CHARITY SHOP STOCK ASSISTANT**
**Charity Shop Stock Assistant RSPCA Cumbria West Branch**
**All About Us at Cumbria West**
**Our charity shop in the heart of Whitehaven is looking for a friendly volunteer to join our team and help make our retail area a huge success. Join our dedicated team of animal daft people, make new friends, have fun, and help us help to raise funds to support our local animals**
**About our opportunity**
As a volunteer Charity Stock Shop Assistant, you would join a small team of volunteers working together with a stock manager, to sort through customers donations, select items suitable for sale, prepare the items for sale with very light cleaning or steaming clothes, and then price items for sale according to guidance. Activities will also include keeping the stock areas neat and tidy, and making sure our retail areas have lots of lovely things prepared for our customers to browse and hopefully buy
We currently have two retail spaces, one space for clothing and accessories and the other retail space is for bric-a-brac and gifts. Our stock areas are above the retail spaces together with some office rooms, so we all work very closely together, and give each other plenty of support.
We offer positive and friendly guidance and support, especially with our new volunteers in mind, for those of us who are learning new skills, or for people who may have joined us to gain more confidence and social skills.
We are very aware that many people may need just a little bit of a helping hand to make friends and to socialise, after being confined in their homes for long periods of time, isolated with little social contact, or who may even have been ill, all due to the Covid 19 pandemic. We don’t think there is anyone who hasn’t been affected in one way or another.
All the volunteers and trustees are a mixture of ages, with different personalities and life skills, the thing that consistently brings us all together is our love of everything animal, we would love to hear from you if you think that you could offer us some help make RSPCA Cumbria West a great success and raise vital funds for local animal welfare.
We all also like having a chat, with a cuppa and a cheeky biscuit, so come and meet us
If you are still not sure about joining us, come and have a chat, or visit us for a couple of days, we can show you around, introduce you to other volunteers and give you a chance to get to know how we work.
**About the RSPCA**
Founded in 1824 we have been saving animals for almost 200 years and are proud to be the oldest welfare charity around. It has always been our vision to live in a world where all animals are respected and treated with compassion, so our volunteers and employees work tirelessly to ensure that all animals can live free from pain and suffering.
**About Our Charity Shop in Whitehaven Market Place**
The shop is part of the RSPCA Cumbria West Branch building and plays an essential role in raising our profile in our local community and funds raised go to support our branch activities so that we can continue our vital animal welfare work. Our shops sell a mixture of donated items, including clothes, books, bric-a-brac and collectables, and a selection of new items.
We also have positions in our charity shop or you could volunteer to do a mixture of both, either for the long term or to see what preferred
**Every member of the RSPCA West Cumbria Branch Team are unpaid volunteers**.
**Volunteer **Charity Stock Assistant **responsibilities**
- To be polite and friendly to our customers and to other volunteers.
- Accepting donations of items from the public.
- Sorting through donated items to determine what we can sell.
- Preparing donated items for sale by steaming and hanging and items.
- To price items according to guidance
- Ensuring there is enough of mixed stock prepared ready to restock retail areas.
- Keeping stock and stock access areas clean and tidy, and free from slip and trip hazards.
- To take instruction and advice from stock managers or trustees regarding the overall management of the stock areas.
**What we are looking for in a volunteer Charity Shop Stock Assistant**
- Friendly volunteers who are confident talking to people.
- Retail or retail stock experience would be ideal but is not necessary as full training will be given.
- We are ideally aiming for someone who is flexible and can offer an ongoing commitment, opening hours are currently 10am until 2pm, Monday to Saturday, but the stock assistant hours can be tailored to suit the right person.
- Good communication and numeracy skills.
- You will need to be aged 16 or over.
- We also travel to car boot sales and other community events, run a tombola and raffles, so if you could be available to help us for some (not all though) of these fundraising events that would be great.
**What we can offer you as a volunteer **Charity Shop Assistant**
- A way to meet new people and make new friends in your local
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