Retail Fashion

Retail Fashion & Accessories Volunteer

Interested in fashion trends? Know your brands and designer labels? Love accessorising your look? If this sounds like you then we have the perfect retail volunteer role for you. Get involved in selecting, cleaning, labelling and displaying the amazing donated fashion accessories in our shop. This is an opportunity to share your love of fashion, get a taste of a career as a retail assistant and help the British Heart Foundation beat heartbreak forever.

Say hello to the team:
Funding for researchers begins at your local charity shop. Now, more than ever, we are in urgent need of volunteers to enable us to continue our life saving research and help the 7.6 million people in the UK living with heart and circulatory diseases. This wouldn’t be possible without our fantastic volunteers.

Our team is welcoming and friendly, and we love meeting people from all walks of life.

Typical tasks include:

- Following our display guidelines to create attractive retail displays in our shop
- Keeping our accessories department fully stocked with fresh items on the shop floor
- Sorting out and cleaning donated bags, shoes, belts and jewellery in the stock room
- Following our guidelines to value and price donated accessories

You get a lot from volunteering too:

- A chance to work in a friendly team, make new friends & meet a diverse group
- The feel-good factor of helping the British Heart Foundation beat heartbreak forever
- The time to develop your confidence and interpersonal skills
- The ability to gain valuable retail experience to add to your CV and learn new skills
- Flexibility to fit with your lifestyle around your other commitments
- Reasonable travel reimbursed in agreement with the Manager
- 25% volunteer discount on donated goods

Here's a little bit more about us:
The BHF is here to Beat Heartbreak Forever. We are working towards a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. By 2030, we want to see advances across the spectrum of heart and circulatory diseases; to prevent these conditions from developing and we want those with existing conditions to have better, longer lives.

COVID precautions:
We are COVID-secure, following current Government guidance. We provide sneeze screens at till-points, hand sanitiser, disinfectant and face coverings. We maintain a strict cleaning schedule and social distancing in our shops/ stores.

**Job Type**: Volunteer

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Free or subsidised travel

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Work Location: One location