Be a familiar face for Addenbrooke’s Charity in your community
Locations: Bedfordshire • Cambridgeshire • Essex • Hertfordshire • Norfolk • Suffolk (local to you)
Time commitment: Flexible – around every 3 months
Why volunteer with Addenbrooke’s Charity?
Addenbrooke’s Charity helps Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie provide care that goes beyond what NHS funding alone can deliver.
Thanks to the support of our local community, Addenbrooke’s Charity funds:
- Life‑saving and high‑tech medical equipment
- Specialist staff and world‑class research
- Extra comforts that make a real difference to patients and families
By placing and collecting tins for Addenbrooke’s Charity, you’ll help turn local donations into better care for patients. Together, these donations help improve patients’ experiences, provide access to specialist equipment and expert staff, and fund research into future treatments and cures — supporting our hospitals now and for the future.
As a Tin Collection Coordinator, you help turn everyday generosity into extraordinary impact.
About the role
Enjoy getting out and about locally and meeting people? This practical volunteer role offers a flexible way to support your hospitals.
Get to know people in your community while supporting your hospitals. You’ll help raise awareness of Addenbrooke’s Charity by placing collection tins in local shops, cafés and community venues, then returning periodically to collect them.
This could be a great fit if you’d like a role that:
- Makes a visible difference
- Doesn’t require weekly commitment
- Connects you directly with your community
Ways you can get involved
You’ll take responsibility for a small number of local venues at a pace that suits you.
Community support
- Asking local businesses if they’ll host an Addenbrooke’s Charity collection tin
- Sharing a little about Addenbrooke’s Charity and the difference donations make
- Being a friendly, positive representative of the charity
Tin collection & support
- Visiting venues approximately every 3 months
- Collecting full tins and replacing them with new ones
- Returning tins to the Addenbrooke’s Charity team and keeping them updated
Every tin you place and collect helps fund better care for patients.
We’ll support you along the way
The Community Fundraising Team will support you throughout your volunteering. You won’t be on your own as you get to know local venues and help turn their generosity into better care for patients.
Is this role right for you?
You don’t need previous experience — just:
- A friendly and positive approach
- Confidence talking to people (or willingness to build it)
- Reliability and basic confidence handling money
Being able to travel to local venues is helpful.
If you’re friendly, enthusiastic and would enjoy supporting your community’s generosity, we’d love to hear from you.
Flexible. Local. Impactful.
Help turn spare change into life-changing care.