Café Volunteer

Do you enjoy meeting new people or would like to gain catering experience? We are looking for volunteers to help run the popular and friendly cafés on our nature reserves. This role is suitable for volunteers under 18 years of age.

As part of our café team you will help to ensure that visitors have an enjoyable and safe visit. When people visit our cafes, we want them to have a warm welcome, get served quickly and enjoy their food and drinks in relaxing and clean surroundings. All this work requires a team of friendly and supportive people to help out. We simple can't run our cafes without volunteers.

As part of our café team you will be serving customers hot and cold drinks, clearing tables, talking to customers about our food and drink options, maintaining cleanliness standards and health and safety codes of practice. You will be helping visitors find seating and answering questions.

Café team volunteers volunteer on a rota to cover the needs of the site, this could be from a few hours a week.

As part of your role you will learn new skills and gain experience working in the hospitality industry, including great transferable skills, such as customer service, diplomacy, people engagement, following health and safety protocols. The money raised through our retail and catering contributes to nature conservation, so you are also helping to save nature!