Hosting/Front End

Being part of a 4/5 person team of Hosts at a weekly Community Meal for Food Cycle. The meal takes place on a Wednesday at the John Pound Community Centre on Queen Street in Portsmouth. 

As part of the team you’ll:

• Set up the dining room and set the tables prior to the guest’s arrival
• Preparing hot and cold drinks and writing a menu board as well as displaying information about the project
• Greeting the guests and serving drinks and biscuits before seating them Serving 3 courses to each guest and often giving take out boxes of excess food
• Equally important is social interaction with the guests
• Often providing a non judgmental listening ear to people from all walks of life is very important
• Clearing the dining area and helping with the dishes occurs at the end of the session

You are given a free meal and encouraged to join the guests to eat

About the Organisation

FoodCycle Portsmouth runs volunteer-powered community meals, reducing food poverty & social isolation by serving tasty, nutritious meals to vulnerable people. Nationally, our incredible volunteers have served +125,000 meals made using over 146,000kg of surplus food.

Process:

You will need an account to register your interest for this role. Once you have registered your interest you will receive an automatic email with next steps. If you have not received this in a couple of hours, please do get in touch as it may not have registered (volunteering@hiveportsmouth.org.uk). 

You will need to respond to the "Criteria Check" email to progress with this role. 

Please check your junk email folder in case any emails end up there.  Friendly reminder that the charities/organisations emails may end up here too. 

Don't forget you can add up any volunteering hours as part of Team 100 Opportunity - Hive Portsmouth or part of the Donate 100 things challenge Opportunity

Skills

• Interpersonal communication is essential
• A calm understand demeanor is required
• You will work as a team with a Lead helping at all times
• You will never be expected to handle any situation in isolation
• A mature attitude with an easy going personality is a great fit
• Our guests are from all walks of life and are always happy to see our teams
• Before the volunteering session you will need to complete a 10min training video and quick quiz