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Volunteer
Volunteers make a difference in the local community across a range of roles, including boosting donations, packing food parcels, providing a warm welcome, tackling loneliness, signposting to additional services, connecting with partners, raising awareness and leading projects.
Here in Bridgend, we’d love you to be part of that story. Whether you can spare a few hours a week or help occasionally, every role makes a meaningful difference to someone’s life.
If you’d like to join our team, please email us at [email protected] — we’d be delighted to hear from you.
Take a look at our current volunteer opportunities below to see how you can get involved.
WAREHOUSE VOLUNTEER
Role: Warehouse Volunteer
Where: Pyle, Bridgend
When: Monday mornings
Time commitment: Three hours
Report to: Warehouse Team Leader
Overview of the role:
This role involves supporting the food bank team in managing their food donations in the warehouse. Food donations are sorted, weighed and packed ready for distribution.
Key tasks
- Ensure that all warehousing procedures and processes are followed (training will be given)
- Sort food by date and type, removing any items that are damaged or out-of-date
- Keep warehouse area clean and tidy at all times, checking for evidence of pests and notifying the warehouse team leader if there are any concerns
- Prepare stock orders for the foodbank distribution centres
- Assist in undertaking an annual stock take
- Report any health & safety or safeguarding concerns to the warehouse team leader
About you
- Enjoy working in a team
- Have an eye for detail
- Organised and self-motivated
- Happy with occasional heavy lifting
Benefits of volunteering
- Make a real difference to the running of the food bank
- Work with people who share your passion to help others in the community who are in crisis
Impact of your role
- Helping to ensure that the foodbank distribution centres have enough food supplies to give to our clients
- Helping to ensure that the warehouse manages its food stock efficiently
Support
You will be given the required training and support before starting your role.
How to apply Email [email protected] for a volunteer application form
VOLUNTEER VAN DRIVER
Role: Van driver
Where: based in Pyle
When: Tuesday mornings
Time commitment: Three hours
Report to: Warehouse Team Leader
Overview of the role:
Van drivers play a fundamental role in the running of the food bank, collecting food donations from a variety of locations across the local area as well as distributing the sorted donations from the warehouse to the local food bank centres.
Key tasks
- Collecting food donations from collection points such as supermarkets, schools and churches around the local area
- Delivering food donations to the warehouse
- Transporting sorted food from the warehouse to the local food bank centres
- Carrying heavy boxes of canned foods
- Regular loading and unloading of the van
- Regular van driving across the local area
About you
- Clean driving licence
- Confident driving a van
- Enjoy working in a team
- Physically strong
- Adaptable and flexible
Benefits of volunteering
- Using your existing skills to make a difference to the running of the food bank
- Work with people who share your passion to help others in the community who are in crisis
Impact of your role
- We appreciate the knowledge, skills and experience that you bring
- You will directly improve the efficiency of the food bank
- You will help to maximise donations by ensuring food is collected promptly
Support
You will be given all the required training and support before starting your role.
How to apply Email [email protected] for a volunteer application form