Why British Heart Foundation?
Employees across many sectors choose to volunteer for BHF for lots of different reasons. These include:
- having fun
- doing something different
- encouraging team building
- raising the profile of your organisation.
By volunteering, you will be doing something great to help fund our lifesaving research.
How to get started
- Find a role: all of our current volunteering opportunities are listed on our MyVolunteer hub. You can filter the roles by location and see which ones are available near to you.
- Apply: once you've found an opportunity that you feel is a good fit, you will need to sign in or create an account and then complete our simple online application form.
- Get volunteering: once you have applied for the role, we will be in touch to discuss next steps.
Please note that for retail roles, the maximum group size we can accommodate will vary depending on the capacity of your preferred shop.
Opportunities
There are many ways to support our groundbreaking work, such as retail volunteering and event volunteering.
If your organisation is partnered with BHF, you can also reach out to your BHF contact for ideas and support, or email our partnerships team at [email protected].
One-off retail shifts
Retail shifts are a great way to experience what it’s like to work in a charity shop firsthand. See what happens behind the scenes, try something new and support your local community.
We have lots of things for you to get involved with, including:
- helping on the shop floor
- preparing stock behind the scenes
- keeping the shop floor fully stocked
- helping to create eye-catching stock displays
- listing items to sell online.
Please note that group sizes will vary according to the capacity of your preferred shop.
More retail shift opportunities will open in the next few weeks so please check back soon. In the meantime, if you have a corporate volunteering request or query, please contact [email protected] and add ‘Corporate Volunteering’ into the subject bar.
Event volunteering
Get involved with event volunteering to help create a fantastic day for everyone taking part and raising vital funds.
We have a variety of roles you can do, including:
- start and finish line support
- being part of a cheer squad
- handing out medals
- baggage sorting
- on the day administration.