Underage volunteers

Trading standards regularly use young volunteers to monitor the sale of age-restricted products such as cigarettes, alcohol and knives. It involves going into shops to try to buy the various goods. A Trading Standards Officer is with you at all times. You can even do it with a friend.

If you are aged 14 to 17 and would like to know more please feel free to contact us.

Two of our recent volunteers on work experience from Notre Dame school have written a review of their day with us which gives an idea of the work involved. You can view their report 'A Day of Underage Sales' (107kb).

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Contact us

Southwark trading standards service
Tel: 020 7525 2000
Fax: 020 7525 5705
tradingstandards@southwark.gov.uk
The Chaplin Centre
Thurlow Street
London
SE17 2DG