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Do you love clothing, fashion, or a good bargain? Or perhaps you want to meet people in your local community and help provide a service that benefits them? Come volunteer in our unique high street R:evolve retail shops as a R:evolve Retail Assistant! Our R:evolve swap shop in Rutherglen allow customers to swap their unwanted clothing for free using our points-based system or grab a second-hand bargain from our for sale sections. We also have our thrift + gift outlet where clothes from our shop in Cambuslang "thrift + gift" are sold at a percentage of the price. The shops are also home to Wee Jinty’s Haberdashery which stocks preloved and repurposed haberdashery, second hand equipment and handmade gifts. As part of a team of volunteers at your chosen location, you will provide customer service and engagement, general upkeep of the shops, and carry out duties requested by the Shops Supervisor As a volunteer R:evolve Retail Assistant you will: • Welcome and assist customers. • Weigh / check donations. • Calculate points for swapping transactions. • Handle cash for sales transactions. • Sort, steam, and prepare donations for display. • Price items for sale. • Help keep the shop clean and tidy. • Display clothing, accessories, and materials to make the shop attractive. • Follow shop and organisation procedures and policies. • Promote the goals of the R:evolve project to customers. • Attend occasional training refreshers and review catch-up meetings as required. Skills and qualities desired: • Friendly and enthusiastic. • Reliable and willing to commit to pre-agreed shifts. • Happy to work and support others in a volunteer team. • Interest in your local community. • Interest in the R:evolve principles of swapping, sharing, reusing, mending, and upcycling or keen to learn more about these. • Interest in climate change and environmentally friendly behaviours or keen to learn more about these

Do you love finding charity shop treasures? Do you have an eye for bringing tired clothing back to life as something new? Or maybe you prefer to work back stage and not in a customer-facing role. Why not Volunteer at R:evolve Roots! Our sorting space team members are the foundation of our organisation. They work together in teams supported by R:evolve staff to sort and process our clothing and textile donations making sure that everything gets to the correct place within R:evolve. Joining the Sorting Space Team gives you first-look at all the donations we receive at the project – an added bonus! As a R:evolve Sorting Space Team Member you will: · Sort, steam, and prepare donations. · Identify items to be sold in our online shop, or sold at thrift + gift, or upcycled and repaired at our community workshops. · Prep clothing for events, displays, and photographing. · Sort, price, and package items to be sold in thrift + gift or at Wee Jinty’s Haberdashery · Carry out basic textile repair e.g, zip replacement, seam mending. (Only assigned to volunteers who feel comfortable doing so). · Follow organisation procedures and policies. · Attend occasional training refreshers and review meetings as required. · Friendly and enthusiastic. · Reliable and willing to commit to pre-agreed shifts. · Happy to work individually or with staff and other volunteers. · Confident in making decisions or able to ask others for help if needed. · Interest in clothing, fashion, retail or similar. · Interest in the R:evolve principles of swapping, sharing, reusing, mending, and upcycling or keen to learn more about these. · Interest in climate change and environmentally friendly behaviours or keen to learn more about these.

Marie Curie are looking for volunteers to become members of their local fundraising groups across the UK. The groups are dedicated to raising funds so that Marie Curie can continue to care for people with terminal illnesses in their own homes and in their hospices. Along with other group members, you will organise collections, fundraising events and encourage support for Marie Curie in your local community. Your role will include some of, but is not restricted to, the following tasks: -Help to organise collections, events and other fundraising activities -Help to promote the work of the charity and encourage support from the local community -Regularly attend and participate in group meetings -Complete agreed action points following meetings

The group meet every Monday 2-3.30pm at the Failte Centre in Stornoway. If you can volunteer time to support this group every week or some weeks your time would be greatly appreciated