Gladrags Admin Volunteer

Volunteering with Gladrags is an opportunity to broaden your skill set whilst giving to your community. 95% of our stock in Gladrags is donated to us and over the last 30 years we have garnered a collection of over 9,000 items. Our customers range from film and TV production, community theatre, local schools and colleges, and individual private hire. This is a great opportunity to learn and develop administrative skills while supporting a small charity that promotes sustainable and circular costume and fashion.  

General Duties: Helping with general business administration pertaining to our costume hire process including: 

•  Pricing up and processing costume hires 
•  Emailing customers 
•  Keeping our customer appointment calendar up to date 
•  Helping to maintain our database
•  Cataloguing costumes and props.

Full training and induction will be provided.

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Benefits

•  Broaden your skillset and gain valuable work experience
•  Contribute to your local community
•  Meet new people.

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Practical Considerations

Gladrags is based in a warehouse in East Brighton, we do offer travel expenses up to the amount of a Day Saver ticket on B&H Buses.

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Support Disabled

We have a Supported Volunteer programme, please get in touch for more information.

What skills do I need?

The successful candidate would ideally have: 

•  an interest in theatre and/or history of fashion and costume 
•  good interpersonal communication skills 
•  a commitment to environmental sustainability 
•  good team working skills to work alongside a diverse range of people 
•  good IT skills and a basic knowledge of Microsoft systems such as Outlook, SharePoint, and Excel is desirable but not essential.