Volunteer with our shops or retail team

Join one of our friendly teams in a Rennie Grove or Peace Hospice charity shop near you. Learn new skills, meet new people, and help raise much-needed funds

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Rennie Grove Peace welcomes retail volunteers from age 14 and we’ll work with the time you have available. Charity shop roles range from sorting and preparing donations for sale, to customer-facing roles on the till and shop floor. You can also work alongside the management team to create eye-catching displays on the shelves, rails and in the windows. Creative, sociable, organised or retail-savvy – you can find your perfect fit.  In fact, many of our retail volunteers have been supporting us for over 5 or 10 years! 

Our volunteer drivers transport items between our distribution centre in Berkhamsted and our offices and charity shops. You could either commit to a regular day’s volunteer driving – or offer availability on an ad hoc basis. For example, we might call upon you if regular drivers are off sick or on holiday. You’d drive the Rennie Grove Peace transit vans across our catchment area of Herts and Bucks. All routes start and finish in Berkhamsted but will vary according to needs, such as rotating stock regularly across all our charity shops. This means our customers get the best shopping experience, plus we can maximise the funds raised from new goods and people’s kind donations of pre-loved items. 

Are you organised and methodical? Do you have good attention to detail? Do you like wrapping and packaging items? Then this retail volunteering role with a difference could be perfect for you.

Our volunteers help wrap and pack items sold in our online charity shops, such as eBay. Our online retail platforms are a vibrant and essential source of income for Rennie Grove Peace. All items sold – some of which are delicate and fragile – must be packaged to a high standard for dispatch ​domestically and worldwide. You’d be a key part of the dedicated team that expertly transforms donated items into crucial funds for patient care. In other words, you’d put the all-important finishing touches to the online sales process, ensuring items reach their destination safely.

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Handyperson volunteers help reduce the cost of employing professional trades companies by carrying out general maintenance, small repairs and snags in shops.

You may be helping with a range of DIY and maintenance tasks in shops such as:

• replacing overhead light tubes/bulbs
• changing a ceiling tile
• fixing a leaky sink
• building flat pack furniture
• putting up a shelf
• repairing damaged fixtures or fittings
• painting and decorating
• basic DIY and carpentry
• PAT testing of shop and donated equipment

If you’re experienced and competent with DIY, this could be your perfect volunteering opportunity.

We offer students aged 14-18 working towards their Duke of Edinburgh awards volunteer placements in our shops. Working alongside our existing shop volunteers and managers, you will be given the chance to help with a variety of tasks both on the shop floor and behind the scenes, from sorting and pricing pre-loved items that have been donated to us to sell, to encouraging people to sign up for Gift Aid.

If you would like to volunteer within the Duke of Edinburgh scheme, please contact the shop of your choice and ask to speak with the manager who can chat to you about available shifts. For contact details of shops, please click here.