Our Sales Floor and Visual Merchandising Volunteers will be the first point of contact for customers when they enter our new Brislington furniture shop. You will be greeting customers, helping them find the items they’re looking for and answering their questions, with lots of help on hand from the shop team. You can use your creativity to create eye-catching displays in the windows and sales floor, get involved in selecting and displaying the amazing stock donated to us to great effect to really grab customers’ attention. We will provide you with all the support and training you need to get started. Make our new shop stand out so we can continue to fund life saving research!
Typical tasks include:
· Helping customers on the shop floor & providing good all-round customer service
· Promoting our campaigns and any instore sales to customers
· Keeping the shop tidy, clean and well organised – some light housekeeping
· Creating attractive in-store and window displays to make them look their best
· Using your creativity and experimenting with displays within organisational guidelines
Volunteering with the British Heart Foundation comes with plenty of benefits too…
· A 25% discount on donated goods and 10% discount on New Goods in our shops
· Unlimited, free, and confidential support by Retail Trust
· Access to training and development
· Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed
· Refreshments available
· Volunteer certificates, references and long service awards provided
· Access to discounts with other retailers
Just so you know, we are unable to accept volunteers aged under 16 or with unspent criminal convictions.
Please note this is an unpaid voluntary position in a friendly charity shop.