Scrapstore Volunteer

For Resourceful Community Scrapstore

This role will involve taking in and sorting donations, joining up members and helping them to explore the range of resources on offer.

Skills

You will need to be reliable, friendly and flexible - happy to chat to people but also willing to sort through donations and prepare them for the shelves.

You will probably be someone who enjoys crafting - it will help you to identify the donations that come in, and there's a lot of talk about different crafts with both members and other volunteers.

You will need to take payments via cash and card, but the system is pretty simple.

About Resourceful Community Scrapstore

We take reusable, safe, clean waste materials and unwanted resources that would have gone to landfill and redistribute them to the wider community including schools, nurseries and individual crafters.

We opened at the beginning of June 2024 and have already built a solid community of members who both contribute and take from the Scrapstore, which is an Aladdin's Cave of creative resources which is ever changing.

Interests

Arts, Heritage and Entertainment
Environment

Activities

Creativity
General Helping

Details

No - DBS check required
Yes - Equality and Diversity Policy
No - Expenses reimbursed
Yes - Health and Safety Policy
No - Is it fully accessible
The building is accessible but the Scrapstore is in a relatively small room with lots of furniture so might be tricky to negotiate, especially when in the process of sorting donations.
Yes - Ongoing support
No - Suitable for physical or sensory impairment
Possibly not but happy to discuss particular circumstances.
Yes - Suitable for Under 18's
16+
Yes - Training provided
Yes - Volunteer induction
Yes - Volunteer Policy
Yes - Volunteers covered by insurance
Yes - Written role description

Availability

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
Morning	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Afternoon	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Evening	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

We currently have a vacancy for a volunteer to help with a new session on Wednesday afternoons from 3pm-7pm (you will need to be there 15 minutes before and after these times to help with set up and close down.) The vacancy is for alternate Wednesdays - we operate on a four-week rota and we need help on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month.