You can help CSS create practical opportunities for people who need extra support to take part in community-based work. Volunteer your time, donate furniture, make a financial gift, or offer a supported work placement. Every contribution helps people gain skills, confidence and the chance to move forward.
Get Involved
Support CSS in ways that make a real difference
Volunteer with us
Do you have free time and a desire to help your local community? Then join the team of volunteers at CSS and give back by helping out with our many vital services for local people. We offer volunteering placements in:
• Re-use
• Horticulture
• Business/Marketing
• Customer Service/Sales
• Admin
• Warehouse
• Handyperson
• Multi-drop van delivery
• Upcycling help
If you're not sure what you can contribute, then don't worry. Some of our best volunteers are people that just walk through the door and ask, “How can I help?” All we ask is that you're willing and enthusiastic. It’s as simple as that!
Why should I volunteer?
Make a difference!
Volunteering gives you an opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives in your community. You can use your skills and experience to help and enrich the local community.
Improve job prospects & employ-ability
Volunteering proves to your future employer that you have developed necessary skills & are a committed person. This is especially useful for application forms and job interviews.
Experience
Volunteering gives you a chance to get experience in a field you’d like to work in.
Training
Many of the volunteer projects will include training, which will be useful both on the project and in later life.
Experience Diversity
Volunteering gives you the chance to meet people both from within and outside the business who you would not normally come across.
Influence career choice
Volunteering gives you the opportunity to test out potential career choices.
Rewarding
Volunteering is a rewarding activity; you can develop specific skills in different environment and assist other people in the community.
Opportunity for training and development
Volunteering provides you with development opportunities that paid employment doesn’t allow, for example; communication and people skills, organisational and time management skills, planning and budgeting skills. It can help open up fresh opportuni
Support Us to Support Others
We provide services for vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the North East of England. These include renovating and providing furniture and household goods and supplying to those most in need, providing training and volunteering opportunities, garden and handyperson services for the relief of elderly or disabled people and other charitable activities.
Furniture Stores
Our furniture store is based in Southwick on the North side of the River Wear. The furniture store exists to make affordable, quality furniture available to those most in need in our community.
We collect donated furniture and pass it on to our customers for a nominal charge. We ensure that furniture collected is passed straight on to our customers, is of good quality and re-usable. We strive to enable a better quality of life for our customers through the services we provide. There are some easy and effective ways you can help make a difference.
