Charity Shop Volunteer – Market Harborough

Opportunity by LOROS Hospice
Location 5 Manor Walk, Market Harborough, UK LE16 9BP

In February, we are opening a new, larger shop in Market Harborough, and we are looking for additional and enthusiastic volunteers to support the profitable running of this new charity shop. You will work as part of a team to receive and process donations, serve customers and help to create displays

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About this role

LOROS Hospice is a local charity and every year we provide free, high-quality, compassionate care and support to terminally ill adult patients, their family and carers across Leicestershire & Rutland. Our Vision (long term aspiration for our society) is that everyone with an incurable illness has the right to excellent care. This should value and respect their uniqueness and their own choices. People should be enabled to live and die with dignity and with appropriate and compassionate support for themselves and their loved ones.

Each year we have to raise £6 million to keep the charity going to provide services for patients and their families and our 32 charity shops spread across Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland play a vital part in helping up raise that much needed income.

We are looking for more volunteers to support the running of our new charity shop in Market Harborough, opening in February 2023. The current store is open from 9.30am-4.30pm, Monday- Saturday, and 10am – 4pm on Sundays. Tasks could include receiving & processing donations, steaming & tagging clothing ready for selling, arranging displays on the shop floor and serving customers at the till. Full training would be provided.

If you are looking to meet lots of new people, work as part of a team, develop your customer service skills and are interested in serving your local community then this could be the role for you! Variable shift times are available from a couple of hours to a whole morning/afternoon, preferably on a weekly basis but fortnightly and monthly shifts could be discussed. All of our shops could not run without the support of volunteers, so by signing up you would be keeping a vital income stream open whilst supporting a very worthwhile cause.

Through our recruitment and volunteering policies, we ensure that no individual receives more or less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, sex and sexual orientation and religion or belief.

When you can volunteer

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Morning
Afternoon
Evening

Requirements

  • References needed
  • Willing to take a DBS Check

To volunteer in a LOROS charity shop you need to be 16+ however we do accept volunteers from the age of 14 who are working towards their Duke of Edinburgh Award. There is no upper age limit, but we would do an assessment of appropriateness for the role during a taster session.

Location

Location 5 Manor Walk, Market Harborough, UK LE16 9BP

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