Many ways to get involved

Our owner-members volunteer in every area of Co-op operations - stocktaking, building maintenance, publicity, event organising, shelf-stacking, finance, cleaning, product research and many more roles... Whether you can offer the Co-op specialist skills or general help, you'll always be welcomed as a volunteer...

Join the CB or a Working Group

The Co-op's Co-ordinating Body (CB) is group of member-directors, elected at the AGM, who steer the overall direction of the Co-op between general meetings.

Working Groups oversee particular areas of Co-op operations including premises, products and volunteering itself (via the Work Rota Monitoring Group). They receive input from the CB and staff but are led by ordinary members.

Join the Help Rota

The Co-op gets set up for trading on Thursdays and Saturdays thanks to its help rota volunteers who check-in pallets of new deliveries, stack the shelves, tidy up at the end of day and look after general upkeep.

These teams work on a 5 week cycle and each volunteer commits to a regular two hour shift, either on Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

On Thursdays and Fridays, the main focus is the afternoons (until around 5pm). Saturday is the busiest day with around 10 members working between morning set-up and evening close down.

In addition, two further teams undertake monthly stocktakes and floor mopping.

Experienced members also play an important role in staffing the Co-op's Saturday welcome desk.