Collection Box Coordinators

If you love getting out and about but also want to support a cause in achieving it's aim, then becoming a Collection Box Coordinator could be the right step for you. You will be involved in displaying our iconic collection boxes in your local community to help raise funds for Guide Dogs. Collection Box Coordinators place our iconic boxes locally as part of their daily life and every few months tally up the funds before paying them in to Guide Dogs. You'll develop relationships with your local shops, businesses and other groups, tell them about Guide Dogs and persuade them to host one of our boxes. Main tasks and responsibilities

• Identifying and placing collecting boxes in suitable locations.
• Talking to the shop owner, receptionist etc at the location about how the boxes will help Guide Dogs and what we do.
• Emptying boxes every 3-6 months (as they get full) and banking the income through the paying in book provided. Give a receipt and letter of thanks to the hosts.
• Keeping a written record of the location of all boxes for your supervisor, the dates they are emptied and the dates/amounts banked.
• If boxes aren't collecting much, you'll decide to move them to a better location. Your supervisor may also ask you to remove boxes.
• Reporting any stolen boxes to the local Mobility Team., Organisation Policies: Health and Safety Policy
• Organisation Policies: Safeguarding policy
• Organisation Policies: Conflict Resolution policy/procedure for volunteers
• Organisation Policies: Data Protection Policy
• Organisation Policies: Equal Opportunities Policy
• Organisation Policies: Volunteer Policy
• Quality Control: Expenses - additional information
• Support provided: Access to group meetings/socials/team events
• Support provided: Access to telephone/online support
• Support provided: Training provided
• Support provided: Volunteer Handbook available
• Support provided: Volunteer will have named supervisor
  
  Have good organisational skills to organise distribution of collection boxes.
• Have good communication skills to spread the word about Guide Dogs.
• Need to be 16+
  
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