Volunteer Roles

Cooking for the community

Join volunteers cooking for the community on Thursday curry night, between 2:30 and 7pm. No experience needed, the volunteer team leads will help you out along the way. “The sounds of laughter from the kitchen carry further than the smell of the curry”. Or help out with our monthly community dinners, next up is 19th August and 16th September.

Hub Duty:

This role involves opening the community fridge, and sharing food with the community. It involves encouraging the community to pay as they feel and value the food, engaging in food conversations, and maintaining the space as friendly, accessible, and clean. Wednesdays & Fridays 10 am to 3 pm

Bwyd Dyfi Hub Fruit & Veg Box Team:

On Tuesdays, 11 am to 2 pm volunteers help with operating the Bwyd Dyfi Hub, making up local produce boxes of fruit, veg, eggs, cheese, meat. Various roles are available; in the morning - helping with opening checks, portioning fruit & veg, making up customer boxes and in the afternoon, meeting and greeting customers who come to collect. We also have opportunities if you’re interested in marketing, film making and photography. Help us increase the local food economy!

Clean Teams:

We believe that we all have a shared responsibility to maintain the cleanliness and tidiness of the hub. We also have dedicated cleaning teams whose specific focus is to keep the Hub clean and fresh, and complete Opening and Closing checks and cleaning on each Community Pantry day. These daily checks are both important to maintain hygiene standards, and in order to meet food safety standards. We also have a Deep Clean Team who meets the first Monday of the month for an hour to do monthly cleaning tasks.

Evening Collections

Volunteers visit participating businesses and collect surplus food which would otherwise be put into landfill. The food is then returned to the hub, weighed and logged.

Composting and Waste Team:

This role involves collecting the food waste from the hub and taking it to our composting site located near the Penparcau allotments. You can transport the compost using the hub bike and trailer (training provided).

There is also a volunteering role for someone to put the bins out early on a Tuesday morning.

Tyfu Aber Grow:

The Tyfu Aber Grow community gardening group look after the Trefechan Community Garden and a garden at the Hub. Here we are growing mostly herbs for our Community Kitchen and providing a space in nature for relaxation and socialising. This role is suitable for anyone interested in being outdoors - no experience is required, and we also welcome experienced gardeners!

Translation:

We strive to be as inclusive as possible, and this includes making our premises, website and social media welcoming to welsh speakers - to this end we are looking for bilingual individuals / groups to help us by undertaking translations of key documents, social media, posters and displays. We also want to better communicate with our community, translating into Farsi, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian and other languages is essential for this. If you can help please let us know!

Dehydrator Team

Get creative with preserving gluts of surplus food with out new 36-tray commercial dehydrator. We often get random unpredicted gluts of certain items, which we find it hard to distribute. Stay in communication with the evening collections team and help respond to these and make new tasty treats out of surplus.

Event Support:

There are a variety of support roles including: setting up venues; welcoming people to the space; preparing food; serving food; washing up….

Admin Support:

Task focused, including supporting the processing of volunteer application forms; transferring food logging data to computer; book-keeping…..

Community Space Bookings

Help monitor an email address and booking enquiries for people wanting to hire the space for community or personal use. We have a commercial kitchen available for hire and fully set up events space. Help staff deliver inductions for people using the space.

Marketing and Advertising

Working with either a staff member or other volunteers to publicise the organisation, the crowdfunder campaign, and specific events and offerings we have. And following our brand guideline document to ensure consistency with the rest of our communications. 

Odd Jobs/Maintenance

Activities may include small repairs, painting, putting up notice boards, and other practical tasks to improve and maintain the facilities.

Skills: Problem-solving mindset. Willing to follow safety guidance

Time commitment: Flexible – estimated 2–4 hours per month

Roles don't quite suit you?

If you have an idea of an alternative way you would like to contribute, please talk to us about it: afscommunityhub@gmail.com

Download and complete the volunteer application form.

Return your form to: lucy@aberfoodsurplus.co.uk, or to the Hub