Volunteer
Our volunteers help us to provide food and practical support to people left without enough money to live on.
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Volunteers make a difference in the local community across a range of roles, including boosting donations, packing food parcels, providing a warm welcome, tackling loneliness, signposting to additional services, connecting with partners, raising awareness and leading projects.
Volunteer roles
Food bank centre helper – Wednesday 13:00-16:00
As the welcoming face of the food bank you’ll be sociable, enjoy meeting people and able to offer friendly and caring support to those in crisis. You’ll receive and check food vouchers, prepare food parcels and make refreshments for the people who visit the food bank. You’ll provide a listening ear and support people in accessing other services with compassion and dignity.
Warehouse assistant – Friday 10:00-12:30
Acting as the link between food donations coming in and reaching those in crisis, you’ll support the smooth running of your local food bank. You’ll be part of a team sorting and packing food and additional items in the warehouse. You’ll be organised and have an eye for detail; this includes checking, weighing and recording stock and sorting food by date and type. This is a physical role as you’ll be on your feet a lot and you must be comfortable with some heavy lifting and maintaining a clean and safe warehouse.
Warehouse manager – 3-4 hours a week
You'll play a key role in ensuring the warehouse runs smoothly and waste is kept to a minimum. As well as your strong organisational skills you’ll be a great people person, confidently leading a team of volunteers to manage stock levels and complete regular stock audits. You’ll be self-motivated and support the food bank manager, playing a key role in liaising with a diverse range of contacts who can support you in your aims.
Bookings team helper
South Belfast Foodbank works on a referral and appointment system. You will be a vital part of the bookings team who contact clients who have been referred to us and book them into an appointment at the foodbank. This is a great chance to use your transferrable skills to help people in South Belfast who are at risk of food poverty.
Other skills
Do you have a particular skill you could offer? For example: Cyber security, HR, etc. then please email info@southbelfast.foodbank.org.uk
If your skills match our volunteering needs then we will be in touch.
Our volunteer needs are constantly changing. If none of the above current volunteer opportunities are suitable, please do check back to this page as we update this every month.
Corporate volunteering
For corporate volunteering opportunities please fill out this form and a member of our team will be in touch as soon as possible.
Please bare in mind our corporate volunteering opportunities all take place at our warehouse and will involve manual handling.