How Volunteering Benefits You

Working as a volunteer for Butterwick Hospice can greatly improve your career prospects and it can develop your experience, skills, knowledge, team working, and self confidence and you can make many new friends.

Experience as a volunteer look Volunteer aromatherapist giving a foot massage s good on your CV, and impresses prospective employers because it shows you are responsible, committed and you care.

We could even train you to widen your skills and qualifications as in some areas of our work we are able to offer accredited training.

We depend upon our volunteers and we need more. There is a wide range of roles that are carried out by volunteers. These roles include:

Driving and escorts for drivers
General maintenance around the Hospices
Gardening
Reception duties
Adminstration and office work
Domestic, laundry and housekeeping
Fundraising and merchandising
Working in our shops
Working in the warehouse that supplies our shops
Collecting and delivering shop stock
Selling lottery tickets
Complementary therapy practitioners
Arts and crafts assistants
Flower arranger
Care worker for in-patients, day care or children's hospice
Family support worker/bereavement counsellor
Catering assistant
Coffee shop attendant

You could choose something relating to your studies, a hobby or interest or something based on past work experience. You could also choose something you have never done before but would like to try. You will be given training and support in which ever role you choose

Take a look at our current vacancies and if you would like more information fill out the application form and send it to us or telephone either Marjorie Hall on (01642) 615824 or Judith Hastings on (01388) 603003. We can then discuss how we can help each other.