Job summary
- Main area
- Volunteers
- Grade
- Voluntary
- Contract
- Voluntary: Applicants are required to commit to a minimum period 6 months
- Hours
- 1 session per week (11:00-14:00, 16:00-19:00)
- Job ref
- 317-Vols-Collection-Box
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newcastle Hospitals Charity
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Closing
- 31/12/2026 08:00
Employer heading
Charity Fundraising - Collection Box Volunteer
Voluntary
Job overview
We’re excited to invite an enthusiastic and friendly volunteer to join us in raising money and awareness for Newcastle Hospitals Charity within your local community!
In this role, you’ll have the rewarding opportunity to place collection tins in local businesses like pharmacies, butcher shops, fish and chips shops, newsagents, pubs, and more. The more collection tins you set up and maintain, the more funds you’ll help raise for Newcastle Hospitals Charity!
Main duties of the job
The difference your contribution will make to the service
Your support will be valuable in helping raise funds for Newcastle Hospitals Charity, enabling us to fund projects supporting patients, staff and the wider community of Newcastle Hospitals.
Working for our organisation
At Newcastle Hospitals Charity our goal is to make a positive impact at Newcastle Hospitals. We proudly support staff, patients and the wider community of the hospitals, and fund a range of initiatives – from cutting edge cancer research, to innovative medical equipment and ward refurbishments.
Important note on completion of the application form
REFERENCES: Candidates are required to provide the address, telephone number and work email address of at least TWO referees, who should be either a current or former employer, senior work colleague, teacher, tutor or person of good standing in the community, and certify that they have known you for a minimum of 3 years prior to the date of application. PLEASE NOTE: That we cannot accept references from Friends or Family members and must request professional email addresses to contact referees.
EMAIL: All correspondence to you will be made via email, therefore please ensure that you check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Identify new businesses in your area to host collection tins.
- Regularly visit these locations to check on and service the tins.
- Take full collection tins to the cashier’s office in our hospitals.
- Update database with collection tin details and amounts raised.
- Build positive relationships with shop owners.
- Send out ‘thank you’ postcards to the businesses, sharing the amounts raised.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- A solid understanding of your local area
- Great communication skills and a friendly smile!
- A commitment to making a difference in your community
- Reliability and punctuality
- The ability to travel to various locations using your own car
- Access to personal data therefore and understanding of confidentiality
- Cash handling experience
- Basis I.T skills to update a database
- Confident on the phone and dealing with supporter’s (tin locations)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kathryn Fletcher
- Job title
- Volunteer Services Administrator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 282 4075
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