Who manages the shop and café?

Normandy Community Shop & Café is run by a small team of paid staff supported by a team of volunteers.  We’re already receiving excellent feedback, but to ensure we can meet the increasing demand we need to increase our volunteer team right NOW. 

Would you like to volunteer?

Most of our volunteering slots during opening hours are 1–3 hour shifts, these could be for unpacking deliveries, serving customers, making coffees, anything you can think of.

We would love our volunteers to sign up for regular shifts; this could be as little as one shift a week, or more would be great!  We will build up a bank of volunteers.  This is how other community shops keep the shifts covered and it works well.

Worried about committing to volunteer?

You can choose when to volunteer so that it fits around your other commitments, and if you find that you can’t make one of your shifts, we can arrange cover for you.

You will not be working on your own, there will always be a manager on duty and most likely one or two of your fellow volunteers.  Full training will be provided for all volunteers, top-up training will be available as and when needed, and simple one pager instructions for all equipment will be easily accessible.

Volunteer roles

As you can imagine, there are a wide range of roles that need to be filled and if you don’t fancy being in a customer-facing role, that’s not a problem.  How about checking incoming stock?  Entering deliveries onto the computer?  Washing aprons?  Removing any out-of-date notices on our information boards?  Anything that our volunteers can do will contribute to the success of the shop and café and make it a great place for Normandy villagers to visit.

CONTACT US NOW IF YOU CAN HELP