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Shop Assistant Volunteer

The Lewis Foundation

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We can’t thank our Volunteers enough for gifting their time to be a part of our team helping to run our Outlet stores. Our outlet helps us to raise the income we need to provide our free gift packs and support to adults diagnosed with cancer in hospital. By volunteering with us, you are making a real difference to the lives of others. This means we can help even more people diagnosed with cancer.

By volunteering with us you will also gain a variety of skills and experience, which you can use on your CV.

You will work alongside the other members of Team Lewis, who will support you every step of the way.

You don’t need any experience to volunteer. You just need to be motivated, hardworking and enjoy being part of a team.

What you be doing

This list is not exhaustive, but below are examples of what you could do in our outlet store:

• Welcoming, assisting and serving customers – make our customers feel like VIP’s! Ensure they leave the shop with a smile and a great impression of our outlet.
• Get creative with our window and shop displays to ensure our outlet store looks inviting to customers.
• Help sort and display donated stock, including stock rotation where required.
• Complete customer purchases, which includes processing cash and card payments.
• Promote understanding of our work such as promoting The Lewis Foundation events and activities to our customers.
• Making sure the outlet store is kept, clean, tidy and organised for our customers.

Community Work,Fundraising,Retail & Charity Shops,General & Helping

Basic IT skills - internet & email, Reading & Writing

• A working knowledge of what makes great customer service. • Experience of working in a shop environment. • Adaptability in changing situations, including being able to work effectively independently and as part of a team. • Commercial awareness. • The ability to communicate well with members of the team and customers • And ideally experience of working in, or an understanding of retail.

• The satisfaction of knowing you're making difference to the lives of those diagnosed with cancer in hospital. • The opportunity to be creative and bring new ideas to the shop • The opportunity to develop new and existing skills • Access to training • The enjoyment of meeting new people and being part of our outlet Team

Minimum 4 hours per week, we can be flexible on days of the week with notice.

Further location details may be provided below.

Lorraine Lewis

Unit 55 The Mall, Luton Luton

LU1 2LJ

Based next to Tesco's in The Mall Luton

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Email: hello@thelewisfoundation.co.uk

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At present the new store does not disability/access requirements due to stairs/toilets downstairs.

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Volunteer Centre  Suitable For

18 and over

Volunteer Centre  We Welcome

 We welcome and/or have the resources to support:

Whether you're a volunteer, supporter, or staff member, we want everyone to feel welcome at The Lewis Foundation. We are committed to greater diversity across our people to make sure we have a breadth of experience, skills and perspective that reflects the communities we serve. We are working to ensure that The Lewis Foundation is a fair and equitable place to volunteer. We strive to ensure everyone is treated fairly, regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), sexual orientation, religion, or belief, or because someone is married or in a civil partnership.

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