Volunteer Shop Assistant

11 hours ago


Exeter, United Kingdom British Heart Foundation Shop Fore Street Exeter Full time

If you want to ease back into a work place, regain some confidence and gain transferrable experience, nothing beats our BHF Fashion shops. As a retail assistant volunteer helping you’ll be at the heart of helping run the shop - whether you’re on the shop floor helping with sales, or behind the scenes processing donations with fellow team members.

Our shop volunteers are essential to the running of our shops - we couldn’t do it without them. Whichever retail assistant role you choose to help with, you’ll be part of a small team raising funds to help the BHF 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 Exeter Fore Street shop team led by Phil are welcoming and friendly, and we love meeting people from all walks of life.

**Typical tasks include**:

- Serving customers on the till & providing good all-round customer service
- Promoting our campaigns and instore sales to customers
- Working on window and shop displays alongside the paid team
- Sorting donations in the stock room ready for sale, helping run a department
- Keeping the shop tidy, clean and well organised - some light housekeeping

**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
- Flexible shifts to fit your plans
- 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.

**Job Type**: Volunteer

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Employee discount
- Free or subsidised travel

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

COVID-19 considerations:
We are COVID-secure, following current Government guidance. hand sanitiser, disinfectant and face coverings. We maintain a strict cleaning schedule and social distancing in our shops/ stores.



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