Volunteer Food Market/Receptionist

We are looking for Youth Advice Centre Food Market/Reception volunteers with an interest in supporting young people (aged 13-25), through providing information and signposting to services.

YMCA Youth Advice Centre (YAC) Brighton offers advice, support and guidance to young people in Brighton and Hove. The YAC team are able to offer expertise on a wide range of topics. Our aim is to provide young people in the local area with a safe and friendly environment where they can access helpful advice and support. We offer a Family Support & Mediation Service and a Support & Advice Service providing sexual health advice and services, emotional and wellbeing support and benefits and money advice.

We are looking for volunteers who would like experience in a friendly support service for young people. This will involve working at the Youth Advice Centre (YAC) to welcoming young people at reception, keep monitoring systems up to date, answering YAC’s main phone line and developing our social media presence.

Key to this role, is supporting our youth-led Food Market project, supporting young people accessing the food market and completing registration forms, taking payments, and supporting the smooth running of the Food Market Tuesday to Thursday between 3-6 pm.

We ask for a commitment of a minimum of 3 hours a week for a 6 month period.