Retail Assistant – Zero Hours
4-8 hour shifts to be worked flexibly, Monday to Sunday
Pay: £12.21 per hour
Closing date: 24 August 2025
About the role
Working in the Westonbirt Shop is at the front line of raising funds to help us support The National Arboretum to protect trees and enrich lives. The Westonbirt Shop is a bright and welcoming space, known for its array of stunning locally sourced, unique and eco-friendly product ranges.
As a Retail Assistant you will naturally be a strong team player and love interacting with people. You will be dedicated to providing an excellent service; acknowledging, welcoming and engaging every visitor and offering them help and advice with their purchases.
You’ll be confident at multi-tasking during our busiest times and always on hand to help and ensure the Shop is maintained to a high standard.
You will have demonstrable retail experience, preferably within the gifts and luxury items environment and be adaptable to respond to flexible shift requirements across 7 days a week. Shifts will be offered at a minimum of 4 hours and maximum of 8 hours.
Above all, we are looking for people who are customer focussed, with an engaging personality and a genuine passion for enhancing the customer experience. If this sounds like you and you are looking for flexible work to fit around other life commitments, please apply with your CV and a covering letter outlining why you would like to work with us.
This is a zero hours contract role and hours offered will be subject to seasonal demands.
How to apply:
If you wish to apply for this role, please email the following information to recruitment@fowa.org.uk by 24 August 2025.
1. CV
2. Covering email/letter advising why you are the more suitable candidate for the role
3. Completed Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form
The Friends of Westonbirt Arboretum Enterprises Ltd recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds
All applications and communication will be treated as confidential.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
About Westonbirt Arboretum
Westonbirt, The National Arboretum is world-renowned as one of Britain's finest tree collections. With over 600 acres homing 15,000 specimens and 2,500 tree species from all over the world, including rare and endangered trees, the arboretum plays a vital part in research and conservation, and is a popular visitor attraction, drawing over 500,000 visitors each year.
The Friends of Westonbirt Arboretum is a charity that employs a small team of staff to nurture and grow our community of over 38,000 supporters and to further public enjoyment and knowledge of Westonbirt. We help to connect people with trees, improving quality of life and securing the arboretum's sustainable future. In addition, in 2020 the charity formed an enterprise strand, which is now responsible for managing and running the Westonbirt Shop.
Working in close partnership with Forestry England, we all strive to achieve Westonbirt Arboretum’s 10-year Vision, supporting conservation, education and participation to connect people with trees. You can find more information about our charity work on our website and further information about Forestry England here.
