Garden Centre Shop Support Assistant Volunteer

Location/region: Palmer Gardens

As a charity, our Garden Centres provide supported employment placements for people in our community.

Our Garden Centre Shops can get quite busy so we have a mixture of volunteers, colleagues, and service users on site to give great service to our customers.

By supporting service users or carrying out tasks independently, you will help keep our customers happy and raise vital funds for the charity.

Key Tasks

This role could include either doing these yourself or supporting service users in a range of tasks including:

Welcoming and helping customers as the friendly face of our shop.
Using the till and serving customers including cash handling.
Refilling stock on the shop floor and organising displays.
Representing the Trust to our customers and supporters as a cheerleader for the cause and the difference we make here.

What’s in it for you?

Improve skills and boost your CV
Grow your confidence and meet new people
Some lunch and travel expenses
We can be flexible around education, family, work, or health etc.
Volunteering is great for staying active

What are we asking for?

Normally we ask for around 4 hours a week, but we can be flexible
Are you helpful and happy to be part of a team?
Are you excited to learn new skills?
Volunteers here must be aged 16+

Volunteer hours

Monday to Friday 9am to 3pm. There is flexibility around the start and finish times and no minimum, but volunteers generally volunteer for either a morning or afternoon shift.