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Book Department Volunteer - job post

British Heart Foundation
4.1 out of 5 stars
7 Kingsland Shopping Centre, London E8 2LX
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Job details

Job type

  • Volunteer

Location

7 Kingsland Shopping Centre, London E8 2LX

Benefits

Pulled from the full job description

  • Employee discount

Full job description

Our charity fund s around £100 million of research each year into all heart and circulatory diseases and the things that cause them. 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 .

Love books? We’re looking for enthusiastic people to help price, organise and display our wide range of donated books in our charity shop. Create exciting and eye-catching displays and inspire others to pick up a book. This is a flexible opportunity to share your love of books or to get a taster of a career in retail and you'll be helping the charity to continue to fund life saving research.

Just so you know, we are unable to accept volunteers aged under 17 or with unspent criminal convictions. Please note this is an unpaid volunt eering position in a friendly charity shop.

Typical tasks include:

  • Keeping our book department fully stocked with a fresh selection of donated books
  • Sorting out donations of books
  • Following our guidelines to value and price donated books
  • Identifying rare and collectible books for online selling
    • Some lifting and carrying of books involved – remember books can be heavy!

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 charity shops
  • Unlimited , free, and confidential support by Retail Trust
  • Access to training and development
  • Reasonable t ravel expenses reimbursed
  • Refreshments available
  • Volunteer certificates, references and long service awards provided
  • Access to discounts with other retailers

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