Volunteering in our busy retail division which includes our town centre shops, our warehouse and our eBay, Amazon and Discogs online sales, is a really important and rewarding way to support Willow Wood.

You’ll be raising vitally needed funds. You’ll be meeting like-minded volunteers and making new friends. You’ll be using your skills and learning new ones.

More than half of our around 500 volunteers work in the shops, which shows just how important they are to us.

Not only are they raising the funds to help us care, but they are ambassadors for the Hospice, presenting a warm, human face to our supporters.

There are a number of different roles in our shops, so whether you want to be behind the counter or behind the scenes there’ll be something that’s right for you.

We have shops in the following areas

• Ashton, Old Street
• Ashton (Oldham Road, Waterloo)
• Denton, Reddish Lane
• Glossop, High Street West
• Hyde, Market Place
• Stalybridge, Grosvenor Street
• Stalybridge: the Pad furniture & baby store, Shepley Street
• Stalybridge the Pad Coffee Shop: Shepley Street

Our Ashton-based warehouse is at the centre of our retail operation. It’s where we receive and sort donations before they’re loaded onto our vans to be taken to our shops.

It’s always busy, we have a huge number of committed supporters throughout the Tameside and Glossop areas who donate large quantities of clothes, books, records and CDs, small electrical goods, toys – you name it, we’ve probably had it donated.

If you’ve got an eye for a designer label your knowledge could be invaluable to us, making sure that the more expensive stock can go where it will raise the most funds.

Express your interest in volunteering here.