Sensory Stay and Play

Employer: Heritage and Culture Warwickshire

Location: Warwick Market Hall

Description: Heritage and Culture Warwickshire are opening a new sensory stay and play session which takes place on the first Friday of each month, 10 am to 12.30 pm. For more information please contact H&C at heritagevolunteering@warwickshire.gov.uk or 01926 736 422 for more information.

How to apply: Visit heritage.warwickshire.gov.uk/volunteer

Closing Date: ongoing

British Heart Foundation Volunteers

Employer: British Heart Foundation

Location: Leamington Spa & Warwick

Description:  BHF is seeking to recruit volunteers to fill the following positions: 

- Sales Assistant Volunteer,

- Stock Room Volunteer

- Book Department Volunteer

Further details:

Sales Assistant Volunteer

If you want to gain cashier and sales experience in a friendly environment, this is a great way to get a taste of a career in retail while helping raise live-saving funds. With support around you, you will be processing sales through the till as a cashier, talking to customers and thanking every donor - helping us Beat Heartbreak Forever.

Typical tasks include:

Engaging with customers and serving them in a helpful and friendly way

Communicating with fellow volunteers about what has sold and needs re-stocking

Honing your retail and cashier skills behind the till and taking payments

Promoting Gift Aid and sales campaigns, and chatting to customers

You get a lot from volunteering too:

A chance to work in a friendly team, make new friends & meet a diverse group

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

Stock Room Volunteer

Whether you’re a keen rummager, an organised operator or love the look of a freshly ironed shirt, we have a role for you. If you like things to be neat and tidy, then we need your help to sort the donations we receive into their different categories. If you’re a lover of the iron then master the steamer and watch those creases and wrinkles disappear.

Laugh and catch up with other volunteers over the sort room table or over a cup of tea and biscuit at break time. At the end of the day, go home feeling satisfied and proud that you’ve helped to raise vital funds for research into combating heart disease. Whether you’re a lover of vintage clothing, stunning jewellery or beautiful bric-a-brac or just fancy the company of other friendly volunteers the sort room is the place to be. Perfect for enhancing your CV and skills set.

Typical tasks include:

Sorting out donated items and preparing them for sale

Using a clothes steamer and tagging price labels on to clothing items

Identifying unsaleable donations for recycling

Keeping the sort room organised and tidy

You get a lot from volunteering too:

A chance to work in a friendly team, make new friends & meet a diverse group

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

Book Department Volunteer

Do you love literature? Live in your library? Run out of book clubs to join? Looking for retail experience with the opportunity to share your love of books? Help price, organise and display our wide range of books as part of our retail assistant team. Create exciting and eye-catching displays, find hidden gems behind the scenes or just share your love of a good read with customers on the shop floor – it all helps raise life-saving funds that will Beat Heartbreak Forever.

Typical tasks include:

· Sharing your love of books whilst on the shop floor

· Promoting our campaigns to customers

· Keeping the shop tidy and well-organised – some light housekeeping

· Helping sort donations in the stock room, cleaning, recycling, categorising and pricing books behind the scenes ready for sale

· Working on window and/or shop displays – getting creative alongside the Manager

You get a lot from volunteering too:

· A chance to work in a friendly team, make new friends & meet a diverse group

· 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

How to apply:  Contact Elizabeth Dyet on 07584 376983 or email at dyete@bhf.org.uk.

Closing Date: ongoing

ILEAP Volunteers

Employer - ILEAP

Location: Stratford Upon-Avon

Description:

The ILEAP Charity has been providing community-based leisure activities in South Warwickshire for children aged 4 and above and adults with Additional Needs for 19 years and we’d like to reach out to as many families as possible so that we can spread the word to those who may be isolated and or vulnerable.  We currently have a fantastic variety of fun, creative interactive online sessions, Cookery, Arts, Dance, Quizzes and Drama to name just a few. These are running now and will continue throughout term time and school holidays. We are making a safe phased returned to our much loved community-based activities too. We currently have a free renewal and membership offer, please see poster below for more detail.  We are also looking for reliable and enthusiastic volunteers to join our team. ILEAP activities run all year round and opportunities are flexible and ongoing. Our activities are currently based online but we will look to make a phased return to community-based sessions when we can do so safely.  If you’d like to find out more about joining ILEAP charity or our volunteering opportunities, please visit our website or our Facebook page or contact us for a chat by telephone or email!

How to apply:

Contact Natalie Taylor, Project coordinator, at 07956344589 or email her at volunteer@ileap.co.uk

Website: www.ileap.co.uk

Closing date: ongoing