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Wholefoods truly relies on the work of its volunteers. Without them, Wholefoods would simply not be able to keep its doors open. The delicious! Cheap! Organic! Vegan and Vego food that we all love, and the friendly community space ( the lounge room of Monash University) would not exist.
A central aim, defined by our constitution, is that Wholefoods provides a training service to Monash students. Many of out volunteers have experience in hospitality workplaces, but most are inexperienced. So the opportunity to gain skills at Wholefoods will enable them to be hired in the paid workforce.
We offer volunteers training in several workplace areas and, providing you are reliable, efficient and co-operative, we can provide a reference to help you to get employed! Customer service skills, food handling and hygiene, food preparation, coffee making can be learnt through volunteering in Wholefoods. Volunteering is also a lot of fun in a friendly environment like Wholefoods.
Happy volunteers makes a happy Wholefoods! Getting involved as a volunteer is a great way to meet people, learn new skills and more time to enjoy the friendly atmosphere of Wholefoods. There are different areas which you can choose to volunteer. The kitchen needs volunteers from 8am till 4pm (but the busiest hours are from 12-2pm in the servery). In the kitchen vollies can help prepare the salads, cut up vegies (great job satisfaction and therapeutic!) and of course serve the fabulous meals during lunch hours.
In the cafe, volunteers have a great opportunity to get some coffee training if they so desire. In general cafe vollies take orders from the customers, restock, make yummy toasties and other fun stuff! Dishes volunteers are really appreciated, so if you would like to give our dish washing staff a hand, don't hesitate to volunteer. The dish washing machine is pretty cool!
We welcome all students of the university and other interested people to become a part of the Wholefoods family. Our staff, volunteers, collective members, MSA and regular customers know how friendly, supportive, interesting and fun it can be at Wholefoods. We encourage all vollies to integrate themselves into this wonderful environment and to make friends and enjoy their time here as we all do. Of course, the Wholefoods Collective is open to all volunteers and we promote this as an interesting way to learn about alternative political structures, be involved in Wholefoods management and to further become involved in the space.
Interested in volunteering? Then give us a call or email, our wonderful vollie coordinator can give you more details. There are times throughout the week for volunteer training so keep your eyes peeled for times on the chalkboard in Wholefoods!
Hey look here is a huge meal ticket! This is what our great volunteers get after volunteering for every hour. After a good hour's work, Wholefoods shows its appreciation with a free meal of yummy vegan and vegie food.
