We're selling goods on Vinted and eBay to fund our life-saving work - could you help us run our shops?

The proceeds of online selling will support our work (Image by Wix)

We have an exciting voluntary vacancy to fill - someone help us run the New Futures Project's shops on eBay and Vinted.

This is a new venture for us and we believe it could make an important contribution to our running costs.

A member of the team here has taken the initial steps and has overseen our first sales, items of clothing sold through Vinted.

However, she will need help if this is to succeed and that's why finding the right volunteer - or volunteers if we can find the right people to share the role - is so important.

In short, we'd like to talk to you if you could commit to taking on, or sharing, the following tasks:

• To sort through items, photograph and market them on eBay and Vinted.

• Manage all communications with buyers.

• Package up items and take to relevant despatch locations (Post Office, InPost, Evri etc)

• Manage other volunteers assisting with this function.

We supported more than 500 women and young people last year – many of them living with the legacies of sexual abuse, exploitation, domestic violence or some other form of personal crisis.

Our work takes many forms, from clothing and feeding those in immediate need to our ever-expanding counselling service - which provides a longer term solution to our clients’ difficulties.

With extra help though, we could do so much more and, hopefully, that’s where eBay and Vinted - and perhaps other platforms in the future - could prove decisive for us.

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Proceeds of all sales will help fund our work across the board, including outreach. (Video by De Montfort University)

Our director Della Kagure Brown said: "The New Futures Project is very proud to be an independent voluntary organisation, but it is getting harder for projects like ours to secure funding.

"If you could help us by developing our online shop it would mean we can support more women who are desperately in need of our service."

Sarah Lemmon, who manages our drop-in service, is overseeing the venture and is looking forward to working with others to make it a success.

Sarah said: "This is an exiting time for the project and we've had some really good success so far with selling through various platforms.

"Support to grow this would make a huge difference to us; to help us support more women, not to mention the feeling of achievement and to come and get involved and see what we do."

If you think you fit the bill, call us on 0116 251 0803 or send us a message at: info@new-futures.org.uk

The New Futures Project offers a comprehensive welfare and counselling service for women and young people dealing with sexual abuse or exploitation, domestic violence, trafficking, poverty and debt, substance use or mental ill-health.

You can find us at 71 London Road, Leicester, LE2 0PE.