Best way to advertise for volunteers please?

michellen34

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all the great advice, I've been in touch with the volunteer centre today and have the ball rolling, as for what type of volunteer, we are looking for general retail volunteers for all aspects of working in a charity shop, sorting donated stock, putting stock out, till work etc
Thanks again for the help

flyingscottie81

Try Gumtree.com

They have a whole section dedicated to volunteer jobs and is free to post.

Also, https://www.charityjob.com allow you to post volunteer jobs for free, although they don't advertise it anywhere!

Good luck!

Owain_Moneysaver

JobCentre have schemes for unemployed people doing placements - the charity can get paid for the placement.

SailorSam

I've noticed some charity shops put signs in their windows, can't you do that.

Errata

michellen34 wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to ask for your advice please.
I work for a small pretty new charity and we are in desperate need for volunteers, we have tried a poster in the window but no one has come forward as of yet. Can anyone suggest any other ways of advertising that doesn't cost (or doesn't cost a lot).

Thank you

Can you get your local paper to do a piece on your charity ? It would give you an opportunity to do some PR for your shop and invite people to volunteer to help.

elsietanner71

fengirl wrote: »

All the Volunteer centre will do is register your vacancies on www.do-it.org.uk, which you can do yourself.
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I think you have to pay a minimum of £70 to register them yourself, so it's cheaper (ie free) to let your local volunteer bureau do it for you.

Good luck. Hope it goes well for you.

chesky369

Did you know there's a Whitley Bay Community Forum? Don't know what it's like (I'm in London, so not a lot of use for it) but it's at
http://www.whitley-bay.biz/forum/

Ms-Pacman

I tried the below
Local library,
Standing outside busy shopping areas with flyers - find out if there are any local free events where you can take a volunteer and chat to people,
Colleges and universites,
Probabtion service (you can specify no violent crimes just ones for things like speeding, drink driving )
Contact schools for work experience, job centre type placements for nvq's (they pay for it)
Scour the internet for free ads - loads where you can put an ad
Local volunteer bureau
Free ad in local paper - if you have something special or announcing new shop, shop birthday, special event you might find they'd be happy to do a little story with pic and ask for help there - local papers are always after things like this to fill their papers.

hope this helps

from an ex charity manager