Heart diseases. Stroke. Vascular dementia. Diabetes. They're all connected, and they're all under our microscope. Our volunteers help us fund lifesaving science to improve the lives of families and loved ones living with heart and circulatory disease. Volunteering with us is easy, flexible, and inclusive. If you can spare a few hours a week, or a couple of hours occasionally, we’d love you to join our volunteer team.
Could you encourage organisations, furniture retailers, schools and businesses to recycle their unwanted items by donating them to your local British Heart Foundation shop? Could you help to build and maintain friendly relationships in the local community and talk to local businesses about surplus stock they could donate? Join our friendly Brislington Furniture shop team in this flexible and unusual volunteer role that will have a big impact, helping us continue to fund life saving research.
This could be done from home, and would involve working closely with the Manager to build and maintain local contacts to source donations of furniture and electricals, building a network up overtime and maintaining relationships. Full training and support is available in this administration role :)
Just so you know, we are unable to accept volunteers aged under 17 or with unspent criminal convictions. Please note this is an unpaid voluntary position in a friendly charity shop.
Typical tasks include:
- Promoting stock donation campaigns in your shop
- Arranging collections of stock donations from other retailers, corporate businesses, schools, funeral homes etc
- Contacting local businesses & hotels when refurbishing
- Supporting stock donation events
Volunteering with 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 opportunities
- Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed if you volunteer more for than 3 hours, with free parking on site
- Refreshments available
- Volunteer certificates, references and long service awards provided
- Access to discounts with other retailers