Catering Volunteer

Keywords

18+ Cooking Food Handling Food Preparation Training Given Young Families

Description

Volunteer Catering role:

Preparing a hot and cold lunch for adults and children, preparing snacks and drinks for two break times.  Clearing up the kitchen at the end of the day. You will be working alongside another kitchen helper.

• We pay 40p per mile, provide food and refreshments and free training (Safeguarding children). We also provide a branded t-shirt for you to wear in the kitchen.
• We ask all kitchen volunteers to commit to at least 3 days a year in the kitchen.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Prepping the food for lunch which will be a hot and cold buffet for adults and children;
• Laying all the food out for lunch and then clearing it away;
• Organising the break times which will mean offering hot/cold drinks to everyone and a snack;
• Cleaning up the kitchen after use;
• Complete stocktake sheet of remaining food/refreshments on the Sunday that are going back to the storage unit.

What rewards come with volunteering, and how does it create meaningful change?

You will be part of a friendly team and will get to meet new people.  This role is vital and important on our bereavement support weekends for children as they will be working through a lot of emotions so having some nourishing and comforting food and a friendly face at break times and lunch time is so important.

Requirements

No experience necessary but if you have a background of working with food that would be beneficial.  We would ask that you can either walk to the venue from your home but if not that you have a driving licence and access to your own vehicle.