{"id":33249,"date":"2016-11-08T14:02:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T14:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=33249"},"modified":"2016-11-08T14:02:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T14:02:47","slug":"charity-shops-need-volunteers-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2016\/11\/08\/charity-shops-need-volunteers-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity shops need volunteer’s time"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the run up to Christmas,\u00a0a number of Cardiff\u2019s charity shops are struggling to get enough volunteers to meet store demands.<\/p>\n

The British Red Cross, among others, on Albany Road is currently seeking volunteers to help keep their store open and running smoothly.<\/p>\n

Julieann Chick, 38, the assistant manager of the British Red Cross shop says, “It depends on the shop really, we are rather fortunate here because it\u2019s a busy high street but I know other charity shops that really struggle to get volunteers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Highly specific advertisements are often placed in this shop\u2019s window. These adverts make finding suitable candidates infinitely easier. It\u2019s an approach that seems to work for busy charity shops on hectic highstreets, but certainly does not work for all of them.<\/p>\n

Across the UK there are 10,500 charity shops according to the Charity Retail Association<\/a>. These shops are supported and in some cases entirely run by a total of 221,000 generous volunteers who donate their time as well as old clothes and other bits of bric-a-brac. That means that on average each charity shop is manned by 20 people. However, there is still a deficit to some charity shops which aren\u2019t situated in busy shopping areas.<\/p>\n

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Julieann went on to praise a number of volunteers who are students. She indicated that students are often encouraged into volunteering from a young age whether it be via the Duke of Edinburgh scheme or the Welsh Baccalaureate.<\/p>\n

However, with less than 1% of the UK\u2019s population volunteering their time in charity shops, it potentially indicates that people feel more comfortable donating their money instead of their time.<\/p>\n

This notion is exemplified by the Children in Need campaign which raised a record breaking \u00a355 million last year.\u00a0 In just over a week\u2019s time television viewers are set for another star studded evening on the 18 November which looks to continue last year\u2019s success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charity shops on Albany Road are in need of volunteers to meet demands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":33255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[635,314,258],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-33249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-charity-shops","tag-children-in-need","tag-volunteering"],"yoast_head":"\nCharity shops need volunteer's time - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Charity shops on Albany Road are in need of volunteers to meet demands\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2016\/11\/08\/charity-shops-need-volunteers-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charity shops need volunteer's time - 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