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Foodbank Team Leader at Bexhill

We are seeking one or two new volunteers who would like to regularly serve with the Bexhill Foodbank at our open sessions. Ideally, you’d like to serve at least twice a month.

As Team Leader you’d be required to volunteer at our open shifts. Preferably, you’d be available across the three days, but if you only have availability on one or two of them, please still apply:

Tuesday - 12.15pm - 3.15pm

Thursday - 9.15am – 12.15pm

Friday - 2.15pm – 5.15pm

Initially, you'd be working as a general volunteer along with one of the foodbank managers to learn all about the work of the foodbank and how the open shift runs. Then, once you feel confident, you’d take on the Team Leader or Voucher Processor role to expand your knowledge and level of responsibility.

As the Team Leader you need to feel confident to lead a small team, take responsibility for the smooth running of the session, be computer literate and able to learn a new (simple) computer system, be able to talk to people from all walks of life, be able to lift bags equivalent to a weekly shop and feel comfortable to make decisions in a (sometimes) busy environment.

Friday Morning Volunteer

Working as part of a team, you'd be available on a Friday morning between 9am - 11.30am. Ideally, you'd want to serve at least twice a month, but if you would like to serve every Friday that would be great.

You'd be helping to set up the hall at the Sidley Hub, where we will host our weekly foodbank from the Autumn. Setting up tables, putting the food out and getting ready to serve about 15 families a week. During the session, our volunteers may assist clients to get their food, restock, serve refreshments, direct people and chat to clients. Then the team all put everything away together.

It is a lovely, small, and regular team of volunteers that you'd be joining. You need to be able to lift a folding table and a crate of food with another person.

We'd also be interested to hear from anyone who would like to take on extra responsibility and oversee the shift.

Fridays 9am - 11.30am, starting Autumn 2026 - Date TBC

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Wednesday open shift Volunteer

Working as part of a team, you'd be available on a Wednesday between 11.45am - 3.30pm to help run the pantry and foodbank. Ideally, you'd want to serve at least twice a month.

During the session, our volunteers may take the money for the pantry, assist clients to get their food, restock, serve refreshments, direct people and chat to clients. Then the team all put everything away together.

It is a lovely, small, and regular team of volunteers that you'd be joining. You need to be able to lift a folding table and a crate of food with another person.

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.

At both branches, we have wonderful teams of volunteers, and it is fun and stimulating to work amongst them at the food bank/ pantry, serving our clients whilst they are in crisis.

We would like to encourage applications from under-represented groups to help us have team members that represent the make-up of our clients – people who consider themselves to be non-white, those with lived experience of poverty or using a food bank, those who are still of working age/ have children still in primary/ secondary education.

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