Volunteer Collection Collector

Weymouth and surrounding area

This is a voluntary role with no salary.

Hours: Various throughout the week

Closing Date: Ongoing

Julia’s House, the Dorset and Wiltshire Children’s Hospice is looking for friendly and enthusiastic individuals in the Weymouth area to support us in this rewarding volunteer role sourcing new collection can placements, collecting full cans, and helping us to raise awareness and vital funds in support of our services.

This role is very flexible, so it can fit around your other commitments. It includes:

• Distributing cans to local businesses such as pubs, shops, restaurants, etc.
• Keeping up to date records with the Julia’s House community team of where cans have been placed.
• Collecting cans when they are full and issuing new cans.
• Arranging for the cans to reach head office for counting.
• Representing the charity to help raise awareness and money in support of our services.

Volunteering has lots of benefits from building confidence to reducing stress and is a great way to learn a new skill, make friends, and have fun.

You don’t have to have experience to be a volunteer at Julia’s House as we provide all the training you will require.

Skills and experience:

• Honesty and reliability.
• Good communication skills – phone and face to face.
• An organised approach to record keeping.
• Delivering and collecting collection cans in your local area.
• Outgoing, friendly, and someone who enjoys meeting people.
• Good local knowledge with the ability to network and identify opportunities for potential collections in your local area.
• Over 18 years of age.
• Driving licence and access to a car.

Volunteers play a crucial role at Julia’s House, and it is the Charity’s policy to reimburse volunteers for expenses incurred. All expenses must be agreed in advance with the person you are responsible to before carrying out any duties that may incur a cost. Please see the expenses policy for more information.

Benefits of volunteering:

• Learn new skills - full training is provided.
• Great experience for your CV.
• Improved wellbeing and confidence.
• Meet new people in the community.
• Having fun.
• Supporting your local community and making a difference to the children and families we care for locally.

Thank you for considering volunteering with us. It’s a wonderful feeling to support your local community, and it will make all the difference to the children and families we care for locally.

If you would like some more information or to register your interest, please get in touch.

Julia’s House is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce. Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our clients, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. Based on our current staffing profile, we have identified that there is an under-representation of: (a) individuals of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, so we would especially welcome BAME applicants for any of our vacant positions;

and (b) males, so we would welcome male applicants for any of our vacant positions, especially for any care and nursing roles.