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Volunteering
For our day-by-day service in support of the work of the hospital we depend on help and encouragement from volunteer workers. The office is always delighted to hear from anyone interested in offering help in this way. No previous experience is necessary; full training will be given. Initially contact the Friends' office for a "no obligation chat." Contact Us.
Areas of operation include: Friends' Shops* Two shops open throughout the working week - in the main City Road building and in the Children's Centre in Peerless Street. Volunteers work alongside Friends of Moorfields staff to serve customers - hospital staff, visitors and patients, including many with sight difficulties - and to assist with shelf-filling, price-marking, etc. We also offer a twice-daily trolley service - confectionery, newspapers, etc - around wards and clinic waiting areas. Information Desks* Two Information Desks - in the main City Road building and at the Children's Centre in Peerless Street - provide welcoming and informative help points. More than 20,000 enquiries are received each year at these Information Desks: the location of a clinic or the nearest toilet, details of A&E facilities, the time of a particular Consultant's next visit, the whereabouts of the local McDonalds, details of prices in the Friends' Cafeteria or of the Congestion Charge system! The Desk in the main hospital also acts as an occasional base for volunteers who support Clinic Clerks, helping to sort and prioritise and to care for waiting patients. Monthly Sales - "MOORFIELDS MINI MART" This regular fundraising activity is held in the Outpatients' corridor near our Shop and Cafeteria. It raises welcome funds from the sale of books, videos, DVDs, talking book cassettes, CDs and a miscellaneous selection of other goods kindly given by supporters. Donated items may be brought to the Hospital at any time - if the Friends' office or the Shop is closed please leave clearly-marked packages at the main Reception Desk. Occasional ART SALES Contributions of art for these sales are always welcome. Any medium, any size, any subject! Collectors We can never have too large a team for this fundraising activity. Volunteers offer collecting stints ranging from an hour or two to a full day at stores and underground stations. Many members of the public are happy to support the work of Moorfields Eye Hospital and we are anxious to increase the number of opportunities for them to do so. Friends' Collecting Days are held at London stations and stores with our team of volunteer collectors giving two or three hours of their time to help. Contact Us if you might be able to lend a hand. Making Goods for Sale We are so grateful to ladies (and the occasional gentleman) who send knitted and other handmade goods to raise funds in the Friends' Shops or Monthly Sale. Committees Special events require special groups of people. The EyeBall, Monthly Sales, Concerts, Exhibitions ... all these and more rely on focused, hard-working committees who accept responsibility for the success of each event. Collecting Boxes We offer three sorts of collecting box for you to raise funds for the Friends of Moorfields: - Home Box: a little card box for your hall table or sideboard, size just 5" x 2.3" x 2.3" - Shop Box: 8" tall royal blue plastic box for shop counter and special events - Bucket: specially-shaped, strong, royal blue plastic bucket for those loads-of-cash days! All help gratefully received. ...and there's more! Inevitably there are occasional miscellaneous one-off tasks - stuffing the quarterly newsletter into envelopes for mailing, emptying the payphones, ensuring leaflets are available throughout the hospital, re-sealing used collection boxes, listing goods for the annual Shop stock-take, etc., etc. - which are difficult to include in a given category. * Activities marked with an asterisk require the volunteer to commit to a regular weekly attendance. Others operate less frequently or to a different format. |
