Viva la Volunteering!
Corporate volunteers - We need you! Corporate Volunteer teams power our redistribution centres in Chilton, County Durham; Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester. Without them, we’d be lost.
Happy corporate volunteering faces at our Trafford warehouse
Are you ready to make a difference and have some fun at the same time? Join us for the day and see for yourself, all the fabulous food we rescue; tremendous tomatoes, glorious gherkins, fragrant fennel, scrumptious salad, piquant pasta sauces and crunchy cereals. There’s a whole array of delicious food that would go to waste and get dumped into dreaded landfill, if we didn’t rescue it and repurpose it for our members.
You’ll be supporting our full-time teams to sort through that day’s produce, bagging it up for the community hubs taking place that day, then loading the vans that will be going out to visit the hubs.
We asked one of our Corporate Volunteers to share their experience…
“I arrived on site to a warm ‘Bread and Butter welcome’ at the warehouse! I signed in and securely stowed my bag away before listening to Justin’s speech about who Bread and Butter are and what their mission is and why they are so appreciative and reliant on the support of corporate volunteers in the warehouse. Simply they couldn’t do what they do without us.
We were then taken to get our steel cap boots on and high vis jackets! Certainly looking the part, I was tasked with helping unload a huge carton of carrots; carefully counting 10 packs per pallet. At breaktime, I enjoyed a well deserved brew and a slice of carrot cake baked to perfection by the gorgeous Sue, one of many of the incredible Community Development and Distribution Officers. I then helped sweep out Jasper, Mary and Luke, you’ll be pleased to know these are a few of their vans! We stacked pallets of food onto each of them, ready for to be unloaded at their designated hub and packed into bags by the hub volunteers to feed all of their members.
The warehouse work is both physically demanding and a mental challenge. However the team morale was sky high, everyone had a smile on their face and I took such pride in helping as I knew I was making a real difference.”
Be part of the change
Whatever you do, you will be making a real difference to the lives of our members in low-income communities. You can even be a team of one if you like, size doesn’t matter. All we ask is that you come with a willingness to get stuck in.
Scratch that itch and drop us a message to hello@breadandbutterthing.org and get ready to say ‘Viva la Volunteering’!