Theme: Shops

Our furniture shop in Ladybarn is always incredibly popular, especially with students and landlords, and so we’re really excited to open this shop in Ardwick where it is surrounded by a great local community. All our shops are really busy community hubs – so busy in fact that we really need some extra support from willing volunteers! We need volunteer drivers, drivers mate and shop assistants to help us out. It’s vital we recruit volunteers so that we can provide our services, and there’s such a wide range of roles for people to support us with we’re hoping there’s something that will appeal to everyone. We need help with everything from serving customers to collecting and delivering furniture and also help with our newly launched house clearance service. We give full training and support, and we’d be keen to hear from anyone aged 16 and over who thinks they might be able to help out – even for a few hours a week. Every small contribution makes a huge difference to our patients. Our house clearance service is proving really popular, so if you are moving, downsizing, or just have a garage or unit that you want help clearing, we can support you with that as well. We’re urging as many people as possible who may have items to donate to get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.


Amanda Brooks, Head of the St Ann’s Hospice Trading Company

Our furniture shop in Ladybarn is always incredibly popular, but especially in recent weeks when students and landlords have been purchasing new and pre-owned items to get their houses ready for the new term. It’s amazing that the shop is so popular, but as you can imagine it means that we’re in need of even more items we can sell there.  We’re appealing for donations of any items of furniture, and can arrange to pick them up if they’re too bulky for donors to move themselves. The money raised from the sale of the furniture helps the hospice to support local patients and their families, so as well as clearing space in your house, any donations really do make a difference to the lives of local people. We have recently launched a house clearance service too, so if you are moving, downsizing, or just have a garage or unit that you want help clearing, we can support you with that as well.  We’re urging as many people as possible who may have items to donate to get in touch.  We’d love to hear from you.


Amanda Brooks, Head of the St Ann’s Hospice Trading Company

Our shops are renowned locally for the amazing finds that people can get their hands on there – whether new, designer, vintage or pre-loved outfits. These events are timed perfectly for people who want to refresh their wardrobe for the new season, or treat themselves to something special for the forthcoming festive parties.

As well as being a great night out, the money raised at the events helps St Ann’s Hospice to continue caring for local patients, so everyone wins. We’d love as many local people as possible to come along and join us.


Amanda Brooks- Head of Trading

The hospice is a charity and we simply couldn’t continue caring for the thousands of local people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses we support without donations, including those raised by our online and offline shops. We’re really keen to hear from anyone who is digitally focussed who might be happy to donate a few hours of their time to support our busy team. This may be a role for someone looking to gain work experience in sales, marketing, online retail, business or stock management, and will be really varied. We’re a friendly, dynamic team – and we can promise that no two days will be the same! We have to raise £20,000 a day to ensure the hospice can keep its doors open for patients, and the Trading Company activity plays a really important part in helping us to achieve that.  The eBay shop income has increased by 400% in recent months, and we’re really excited to work with a local volunteer who might be able to help us grow this even further.  Every penny really does help us to care for local patients.


Amanda Brooks, Trading Company Manager at St Ann’s

We have 14 shops across Greater Manchester and they are really busy community hubs – so busy in fact that we really need some extra support from willing volunteers! The role of a charity shop volunteer has really changed in recent years, and we see people of all ages who come to us and really benefit from, and enjoy, the experience. It’s vital we recruit more volunteers so that we can continue to provide our services, and there’s such a wide range of roles for people to support us with we’re hoping there’s something that will appeal to everyone.  We need help with everything from window displays and merchandising to serving customers, organising books and DVDs, and collecting and delivering furniture.


Amanda Brooks, Trading Company Manager

St Ann’s has to raise around £20,000 every day to keep the doors open, and we simply couldn’t do it without our army of loyal volunteers.  We have people who support us for a variety of reasons, some are job seekers looking to build their CV, others are retired people who are looking for a new challenge, and we also work with students who are helping broaden their skillset too. We give full training and support, and we’d be keen to hear from anyone aged 16 and over who thinks they might be able to help out – even for a few hours a week.  Every small contribution makes a huge difference to our patients.


Amanda Brooks, Trading Company Manager