Online Sales Champion Volunteer

Our charity funds around £100 million of research each year into all heart and circulatory diseases and the things that cause them. Heart diseases. Stroke. Vascular dementia. Diabetes. They're all connected, and they're all under our microscope.  Our volunteers help us fund lifesaving science to improve the lives of families and loved ones living with heart and circulatory disease. Volunteering with us is easy, flexible, and inclusive. If you can spare a few hours a week, or a couple of hours occasionally, we’d love you to join our volunteer team. 

Do you have a keen eye for unusual or sought-after collectables? Do you know your way around online sales websites? Or maybe you would like to increase your knowledge of the world of online selling?  We need volunteers to help us with our online sales in your local BHF shop, selling a range of donated items on various websites.  Come and be amazed at some of the items that are donated to our shop, research the value of our most exciting donations, photograph them for online auction, or package them up to be sold. Full support and training will be provided but an interest in online buying and selling would be beneficial.  

Just so you know, we are unable to accept volunteers aged under 17 or with unspent criminal convictions. Please note this is an unpaid voluntary position in a friendly charity shop.  

Typical tasks include:

• Photographing items for listing on various online selling sites
• Researching donated items, to gather as much information on unusual items before listing them online – investigative work required!
• Creating informative and detailed descriptions and listings
• Packing and posting items to be sent to our online sales HQ or delivered to customers
• Helping the Manager to handle online queries from customers

Volunteering with British Heart Foundation comes with plenty of benefits too… 

• A 25% discount on donated goods and 10% discount on New Goods in our shops
• Unlimited, free, and confidential support by Retail Trust
• Access to training and development 
• Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed 
• Refreshments available  
• Volunteer certificates, references and long service awards provided  
• Access to discounts with other retailers