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Volunteer With Us

We'll put your time to good use, while helping you develop new skills and friendships.

Two volunteers laughing into the camera. One is sorting clothes, while the other is at the till.

Good for you. Good for us.

From volunteer mentor to Marathon cheerleader, shop assistant to vintage treasure-seeker, there are loads of ways you can volunteer your time and skills with Fight for Sight. And the good news is that while helping us to put change in sight for people living with vision loss, you can reap the benefits too:

  1. Meet new people
  2. Learn new skills
  3. Add variety and purpose to your day
  4. Build career experience and contacts
  5. Make a difference to people living with sight loss
Sheila and Christine smiling into the camera
"We take pride in what we do and we enjoy ourselves."
Sheila – Shop volunteer

Give your CV a boost...

Besides being incredibly sociable and personally rewarding, volunteering is fantastic for giving a CV standout. And the training opportunities will impress prospective employers too. Our roles enable people to:

  • Learn to process donations (invaluable to charity retail)
  • Build customer service skills and experience
  • Train to use an EPOS system; till training is an incredibly transferable skill for people wanting to work in any retail capacity.
  • Understand Gift Aid, which an increasing number of charities are signed up to.
  • Train on safeguarding, which is really valuable for understanding how organizations look after each other.
  • Benefit from online training in subjects like IT, retail and management skills, which we’re offering as part of our volunteering roles.

Something for everyone...

We have a number of volunteering opportunities open right now, including:

RETAIL: Working in our network of charity shops around Greater London.

COMMUNITY: Organising community fundraising events in your local area.

HEAD OFFICE: Supporting our head office through volunteer administration and research.

FUNDRAISING: Joining our cheering squad at sponsored runs and challenge events.

Email to apply

A volunteer trying on a necklace and looking in the mirror

"At the end of the day, everyone wants to feel helpful and important in some way, and our volunteers couldn’t be more important to us."

Beth Evans – Fight for Sight Volunteer Manager

Current volunteering roles

Retail:

Find your local Fight for Sight charity shop.

  • Retail Assistant (All locations) – role profile

  • E-commerce Support Volunteer - role profile

  • E-commerce Photography Volunteer - role profile

  • E-commerce Fulfilment Volunteer - role profile

  • Warehouse Assistant (West Norwood, Hampton Hill)– role profile

  • Social Media Assistant (All locations) – role profile

  • Fashion and Homewares Photographer (Hampton Hill) – role profile 

  • Merchandising Assistant (Hampton Hill, Portobello Road, Tulse Hill, Walworth Road, West Norwood) – role profile

  • Book Enthusiast (Hampton Hill, West Norwood) – role profile

  • Van Driver’s Assistant (Mobile – all locations) – role profile

  • Sustainability Champion (All locations) – role profile

  • Mystery shopper (All locations) - role profile

How to apply

To apply for the Retail roles, please email Beth at volunteering@fightforsight.org.uk and include the role in the subject.

To apply for the Fundraising and Events roles, please contact the team at events@fightforsight.org.uk

We would appreciate you filling in this Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form when applying for our volunteer roles. These answers are anonymous and will not affect your application.

Inclusion and accessibility

Fight for Sight is passionate about giving everyone equal opportunities to volunteer, and we welcome your application whoever you are and whatever your needs. We work hard to ensure our volunteer opportunities are accessible to and inclusive of disabled people and other minority groups.

 

Blind and partially sighted volunteers

Lots of blind and partially sighted volunteers support Fight for Sight and our delivery partners. We particularly welcome volunteers who have lived experience of sight loss.

 

Expenses

No one should be out of pocket for volunteering, so we reimburse travel and lunch expenses for roles where this is relevant.

 

Contact us

If you are interested in volunteering with Fight for Sight, work with a community group who could support us or have any questions about our opportunities, please do drop us an email at info@fightforsight.org.uk or call us on 020 7620 2066.

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