Full Time – VOLIFE Chesterfield

Puppy Dog Trainers

Canine Partners are looking for caring family homes in Derby to raise, socialise and train puppies and young dogs up to the age of 18 months old.

Ideally with-in 45 minutes’ drive of DE21 2RQ post code area. We are looking for volunteers who can provide loving homes for our young dogs, aged 14 months upwards. Commitment to providing a loving home, care, and training for a dog for the duration of their time in training. ALSO puppy parents are needed, we are looking for caring family homes in Derby to raise, socialise and train puppies and young dogs up to the age of 18 months old. Ideally with-in 45 minutes ‘drive of DE21 2RQ post code area.

If you can support Canine Partners by helping raise and train one of our puppies or dogs, we would love to hear from you. Support and training provided

Fulfillment Volunteer

wishesjust4you is a Community Interest Company dedicated to helping children with life-limiting illnesses fulfil their heartfelt wishes.

We are seeking compassionate and organised volunteers to support our wish fulfilment process. This role involves working from home, handling email and phone communications, and helping to coordinate wishes for children across the UK.

Commitment: Flexible – part-time or full-time options available.-working from home

Requirements: A genuine passion for helping children, good communication skills, and access to email/phone.

Charlie’s Place Animal Sanctuary Volunteer

Charlie’s place, an Animal Sanctuary in Pilsley, near Chesterfield, are looking for animal lovers, happy to volunteer an hour or so in a morning or evening on occasion, to help care for a wide range of animals. The sanctuary houses hens, ducks, pigs, sheep, lambs, donkeys, and various birds, with hedgehogs and pigeons often receiving specialist care in the sanctuary hospital. If you love animals, are 16+, and you’re interested in caring for a wide range of them – please get in touch. The animals will be happy to meet you! For more information, you can find Charlie’s Place on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CharliesPlaceSanctuary

Housekeeping Volunteer

Are you handy with a hoover, a whizz with a duster and a dab hand with a mop? We are looking for a Housekeeping Volunteers to help keep our shops clean, safe and welcoming for our volunteers, staff and customers.

Full training and cleaning materials will be provided. This volunteer role is very flexible, and whether you have an hour or an afternoon free each week, your help will make a huge difference to the shop.

Typical tasks include:

Cleaning staff areas, stairways and restrooms – vacuuming and wiping down surfaces

· Cleaning on the shop floor – shop fittings, stock on display and touch points

· Re-stocking cleaning supplies, refreshments and any other miscellaneous items – make sure we have enough tea and biscuits to keep our volunteers going!

Homewares Department Volunteer

Interested in collectibles, homewares and bric-a-brac? If this sounds like you then this could be your perfect volunteering role. Get involved in creating exciting and eye-catching displays of collectibles and homewares in our store. You’ll also be involved in selecting and preparing donated homewares to get them ready for sale. This is an opportunity to share your skills or to get a taster of a career in retail while helping us keep our Air Missions flying.

Typical tasks include:

Following our display guidelines and using your creative skills to maintain attractive displays of homewares in our charity store

· Keeping our homewares department fully stocked with fresh items

· Sorting out and cleaning donated ornaments, collectibles and pictures

· Following our guidelines to value and price donated ornaments, collectibles and pictures

Music and Entertainment Department Volunteer

Love music, films or gaming? We’re looking for knowledgeable and enthusiastic volunteers to help sort, price and display our wide range of donated CDs, DVDs and games in our shop. This is an opportunity to share your love of music or film or to get a taster of a career in retail while helping us to keep flying our lifesaving missions.

Typical tasks include:

· Keeping our music and entertainment department fully stocked and organised on the sales floor and behind the scenes in our stock room

· Sorting out donations of CDs, DVDs and games, checking discs for scratches and recycling those that are damaged

· Sharing your love of music and film with customers whilst on the sales floor

· Following our guidelines to value and price donated CDs, DVDs and games

Book Department Volunteer

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 our lifesaving missions.

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!

Shopfloor Volunteer

Our Sales Floor Volunteers are the first point of contact for customers when they enter our charity shop. You will be greeting customers, helping them find the items they’re looking for and answering their questions, with help on hand from the shop team. You will provide invaluable help in the running of the shop, keeping it stocked and attractively displayed.

Typical tasks include:

· Helping customers on the shop floor & providing good all-round customer service

· Promoting our campaigns and any instore sales to customers

· Working on window and shop displays to make them look their best

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

· Helping your fellow volunteers and staff with customer queries

Fashion Volunteer

If you’d like to make a difference behind the scenes, if you’re a keen rummager or if you like things to be neat and tidy, then we have a role for you, helping in Your Local Air Ambulance shop stock room. If you love a bit of ironing, then master the clothes steamer and watch those wrinkles disappear (it’s surprisingly therapeutic!), or become a clothes tagger extraordinaire, allowing customers to understand what item they are purchasing. If you want a hands-on volunteer role behind the scenes or just fancy the company of other friendly volunteers our shop stock room is the place to be.

Typical tasks include:

· Preparing donated items for sale

· Using a clothes steamer

· Attaching labels and tags to donated items ready for sale

· Identifying unsaleable donations for recycling

· Keeping the sorting room organised and tidy

Cash Desk Volunteer – Dobbies

With support around you and full training provided, you will be processing sales through the till as a volunteer cashier, talking to customers and thanking every donor – helping us continue to fund lifesaving missions. This is a customer focused role where you will meet and interact with a wide range of people. Involves providing customer service, processing transactions, honing your retail and cashier skills behind the till and taking payments.