💙 Volunteer to change lives. Yours included.

This volunteer opportunity will help to assist in the running of all aspects of a retail shop to directly fund our 24-hour crisis support line. Your few hours of volunteering can and will help save lives!

Your energetic contribution of time to assist with donations shop presentation and point of sale. We invite anyone with a customer-first approach to service to join our volunteer team.

We are a small shop in an older well-maintained building with air conditioning. We get a steady combination of regular customers who we get to know well, along with many visitors from all over looking for something different. We receive, sort and prepare all donations onsite at the shop and there is a role for anyone with any availability.

✅ What you’ll be doing:

• Point of Sale transactions
• Stock preparation
• Shop presentation
• Labelling and pricing stock
• Customers service

🎁 What’s in it for you?

• Experience the joy of making a meaningful difference
• Gain invaluable workplace experience
• Enjoy social interaction with others

🚗 Transport & Parking Options:

• Onsite parking and/or free public parking is available

☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include:

• Good communication skills
• Customer service or retail experience advantageous but not essential

♿ This role is accessible for people using:

• a wheelchair or mobility device

UnitingCare values diversity in our organisation and we have some principles in place that will help to promote both inclusion and access. If you have any other accessibility requirements, please discuss these at the time of the interview.

💙 Lifeline - Keeping Queenslanders safe. Lifeline is committed to bringing hope to Australians doing it tough. A trusted national charity, we’re driven by the belief that Australian lives lost to suicide can be prevented. In Queensland, we deliver our 24-hour 13 11 14 Lifeline Crisis Support line through 10 Lifeline centres – providing suicide prevention services with a non-judgemental and compassionate listening ear. Backed by more than 6000 volunteers, our network of 130 Lifeline retail shops sell new, donated and pre-loved goods to help fund our crisis support services. We also export to overseas communities, sell rags to industry and run our Lifeline Bookfest and other events to further support our services and help save lives.