Volunteer Telford

Does volunteering in one of our shops sound right up your street? Being part of our retail team is fun, busy and most of all rewarding.

There are so many ways to get involved from being on the shop floor stocking shelves and rails, welcoming and serving customer and for the creative making wonderful displays or if you prefer the backroom you can sort, tag and prepare donations ready for sale.

Whichever role or location suits you, you’ll help create memorable shopping experiences that raise over £1.5 million every year for our care services.

With over 30 community shops across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and mid-Wales volunteering with us in your local store has never been easier.

What you will do:

Delivering hot meals to the vulnerable within Donnington and surrounding areas

Time commitment:

1 to 3 times a week

Monday to Friday between the hours from 11.30am to 12.30pm

Location: 

Donnington Community Hub, Donnington, Telford,TF2 7PR 

Benefits:

Free hot meal, tea and coffee throughout the day

Travel expenses will be paid

Certificate of achievement after 3months of volunteering

An opportunity to develop new skills and make new friends

Access to free training

Increase confidence and self-esteem

This role will require a DBS check

Support:

The volunteer will be supported by Rose (Catering manager) and Shirley (chef)

The volunteer will not be responsible for any other members of staff

To help keep our website and social media up to date. If you have skills in this field get in touch.

We use Facebook, X, Instagram, Mastadon & LinkedIn, with a website on Wordpress

If you are good at putting together visual media, for the web including event posters and regular content, please get in touch.

This role is done mostly from the volunteers own home, in their own time. Occasional face to face meetings with rest of volunteers – maybe on Zoom or F2F.  Time volunteered is in correlation with skill of the volunteer, but there needs to be a regular, at least weekly input and monitoring of same.

You will need to attend our 3 main events:  a seedswap, a plantswap and a harvest event during the year and take photos.  Each event held on a Saturday.

Attending our monthly business/social meetings, once a month, first Tuesday of each month in the evening.

Location:

In their own home and business meeting in the Cock Hotel Wellington.

Benefits:

Advancing their own knowledge, training from the wider Transition network.   The knowledge they are helping their community.  Social interaction.

Training:

Attending our business meetings to get a familiarity of what we do and our concerns and interests.

Online seminars are available from the wider Transition network and gives a wider view.

Do you want to help us deliver one of our big events for the Summer? Summer Fest 2024.

We are looking for volunteers who like to help out in the community. Whether it be a customer facing role such as meeting and greeting guests or helping us set up or take down our many stalls, events or activities.

We would love you to be a part of our event.

A volunteer briefing, when necessary, will be held before the event, either on the day or via a virtual meeting. Otherwise, information will be passed on via your group leader prior to the event.