{"id":1591,"date":"2020-09-30T09:44:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T09:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edinburghfoodproject.org\/?page_id=1591"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:12:05","slug":"volunteer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edinburghfoodproject.org\/volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"VOLUNTEER"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Edinburgh Food Project is powered by volunteers and we have dedicated teams helping in the warehouse, transport and foodbanks, as well as helping with supermarket collections and events.\u00a0 At the moment our volunteer teams are well staffed and we don\u2019t have any vacancies to fill, but if you are interested in volunteering with us in the future, we have a waiting list.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like to join the list then just drop us an email at volunteers@edinburghfoodproject.org<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Corporate<\/span><\/p>

Over the years, Edinburgh Food Project has been fortunate to have the help of many enthusiastic and committed corporate volunteers. These teams have been essential to our operation and during our peak period, September to February, we rely on their support to manage the increase in donations during harvest and Christmas.\u00a0 Corporate teams work alongside the regular volunteer team checking, dating and sorting food. The work that they do during that busy period means that we are able to build up our stock to see us through leaner times.\u00a0 Some organisations also choose to support us by collecting food, helping with fundraising and through match funding throughout the year.\u00a0 We are grateful to all of the organisations and their staff who choose to support us in this way.<\/p>

Please email\u00a0corporate@edinburghfoodproject.org<\/a>\u00a0for our current group opportunities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Investing<\/span> In Volunteers is the UK standard for good practice in volunteer management. Edinburgh Food Project is, and always has been, powered by volunteers and we wanted to achieve the standard to show our commitment to and appreciation of our volunteers.\u00a0 We also wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on our processes and learn from other organisations. In October 2021, after completing and reviewing our self assessment, providing supporting documents and going through hours of interviews we achieved the Investing in Volunteers award.<\/span><\/p>

The assessment reviewed our processes in six quality areas:<\/p>

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    \u201cI would just like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to volunteer at the Foodbank over lockdown. It has been great meeting everyone involved with the Foodbank and also getting the opportunity to help those who need it most. \nHopefully, see you again soon.\u201d\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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    \u201cThoroughly enjoying volunteering with you all Bethany - the team make it good fun and can I say that it has really helped my self-confidence. I am not sure if I would have applied for work if I hadn't had the volunteering experience with you.\u201d <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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