Volunteer

• Picking up eggs We will be contacting lots of supermarkets around Greater Manchester and Cheshire asking for Creme Eggs, but we will need help collecting all the donations. We look for ‘Egg Taxi’ volunteers to cover their local area – picking up eggs from local stores as and when they are offered – and then dropping them off at the hospice whenever is convenient.
• Egg stuffing Filling 50,000+ chicks with a Creme Egg each can be very time-consuming for our small fundraising team. We need volunteers to fill chicks with eggs and count out orders in the run up to Easter. We can arrange ‘stuffing sessions’ for corporate groups to come in make use of their staff volunteer hours. Individuals who are able to collect chicks and eggs from the hospice can stuff from home. We sometimes arrange drop-in stuffing sessions in the lead up to Easter. Come along, meet new people and ‘get stuffing’ together! If you would like to help, please let us know and we will get in touch when it’s time to stuff.
• Chick hospital Some chicks arrive a little crumpled from their journey in the post or are too big to firmly hold an egg. Our ‘Chick Hospital’ needs volunteers to administer stitches, fix broken beaks or perform googly eye transplants. Chick fixers can carry out a shift either on site in our fundraising office in Didsbury, or at home in your spare time. We can provide all the bits and bobs you’ll need.
• Chick deliveries We’d also welcome help with dropping off orders to many venues across Greater Manchester. Would you be willing to spare some time to deliver chicks around a certain area? If you’d be willing to help, just let us know the area you can cover, and we’ll get in touch if/when we need you!