COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB – currently open

Our new Bonny Downs Community Food Club needs volunteers!

A food Club enables local people to access good quality food, at a very affordable price. Its not a crisis support like a foodbank, but instead is a more sustainable and long-term model of support.

Our aims

Our new Bonny Downs Community Food Club aims to:

• Provide regular access to a sustainable supply of food to local people within the E6 area
• Increase disposable income for local families to improve life chances and wellbeing
• Refer people to specialist services who can support them in other ways
• Reduce the amount of food being sent to landfill in the UK by utilising surplus food

You can read all about the Club here!

What tasks may be involved?

• Setting up the food club before members arrive and breaking down / clearing away at the end
• Assist with cooking and the preparation of a meal shared with our guests and volunteers
• Some lifting i.e. unloading boxes, crates and tables
• Communicating with guests as they pick their food
• Counting money
• Registering new members
• Some data entry onto a database
• We are very keen to recruit drivers, willing to collect donations from local venues

We are seeking volunteers who are/ have:

• Friendly and patient
• Empathy and ability to work with a diverse range of people in an inclusive and proactive way
• Strong listening and communication skills
• Reliable, and able to commit to volunteering on Thursdays on a regular basis
• Able to work within guidelines and always follow confidentiality policies
• Have a general level of fitness, as some lifting will be involved
• Basic understanding of mathematics to calculate costs
• Ability to work on own or as part of a very small team
• Trustworthy
• 18 years of age or older
• We are also keen to recruit volunteers with a lived experience of the pressures of food insecurity

To apply, please complete our short application form here. We look forward to hearing from you!