Winterbourne House and Garden’s adult education offering is growing and the team are committed to making sure that they offer the very best experience to learners. Experience the joy of joining Winterbourne’s ever growing Volunteer Team by join the Learning Officer and assisting with all of the behind the scenes work involved with running our courses and workshops.
What’s involved?
This role will suit you if you are any of the below…
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Contact: Enquiries@winterbourne.org.uk
Visitor Experience Volunteers provide a warm and friendly welcome to visitors at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery (SM&AG). They offer directions around the museum building, share their knowledge of the collections and exhibitions and help to ensure everyone who visits SM&AG has a wonderful experience.
SM&AG is open Monday to Sunday (March – October) and volunteering takes place in two shifts 9.45am – 1.30pm and 1.15pm – 5.00pm.
If you are friendly, would like to work as part of a team and would enjoy helping people to have a lovely visit to the museum then this could be the volunteer role for you.
You will receive ongoing support from Shropshire Museums Volunteering Officer and other staff and volunteers during your volunteering, access to training and resources as required and an induction to welcome you to the team and get you ready to start volunteering.
Role Purpose:
Reporting to: Visitor Services Officer
Key Duties:
Other duties, dependant on your experience and volunteering preferences, might include:
Skills and experience required:
Time commitment: Variable, to be discussed with Visitor Services Officer. Typically a weekly commitment of a half to a full day would be desirable
Training and support:
Benefits of volunteering:
Recruitment Process: Application form and informal chat, followed by an induction. References may be requested depending on role.
Contact them: Email museumofcannockchase@ihlmail.org, call 01543 877666 or collect a Volunteer Application Form from the Museum during open hours.
Meet and greet the visitors, handling till machine for ticket sales and museum shop items. Front of House volunteers will be the first point when visitors arrive at the museum.
Museum open Tuesday – Sunday from April to October, between 10:30 – 16:30. Morning shift is between 10:30 – 13:30, afternoon shift is between 13:30 – 16:30.
Tour Guide: The museum offers several types of guided tours.
This will be arranged prior to the group’s visit to the museum. If required, guided tour will be included with the fee.
Tour Guide Volunteers are given regular trainings by the museum staff that are UK qualified Blue Badge tourist guide.
Wythall Transport Museum is looking to recruit more volunteers to cover many visitor facing roles. They have opportunities to work in the café, shop, admission kiosk and are also keen to talk to potential visitor and educational guides. They have a lot of visiting families and are always looking to expand on children’s activities.
They also need volunteers to help with the miniature train that gives rides to children.
The museum is open on Saturdays, Sundays, and bank holidays, plus Wednesdays during school holidays. You can volunteer as little or as often as you like.
Are you interested in helping with public engagement and activities relating to dialect and social history?
Avoncroft Museum is one of five partner museums working with the University of Leeds on the Dialect and Heritage Project to explore and record the richness of dialect around England and how it may have changed over the last 70 years.
What the role will entail: Assisting the Dialect and Heritage Project Engagement Officer in running ‘Dialect Roadshow’ events, at Avoncroft Museum and/or local fairs and shows around the West Midlands region. Volunteers will help the Engagement Officer with setting up a gazebo and various activities relating to dialect in the region and they will help to engage visitors through informal conversation and activities relating to dialect and the words we use. Several of these events may take place at weekends.
Who will this role suit? The Events Assistant volunteering role would suit volunteers who:
Skills, training and support:
Role-specific training may include: an introduction to dialect, locally and nationally; how to engage people with dialect and heritage; how to use engagement materials and activities to encourage people to contribute their dialect at events; how to contribute dialect to the research online; health and safety.
Volunteers will be able to claim travel and subsistence expenses.
Claymills Pumping Engine Trust operates a unique working steam museum – Claymills Victorian Pumping Station – and, as such, cares for a wide range of operational steam machinery and ancillary equipment from 1885 onwards used in the pumping station, and also an extensive archive including original documentation and other records, including photographs. Claymills Victorian Pumping Station is an Accredited Museum and aims to care for and conserve its collections to professional standards. Claymills is entirely volunteer-led and has no employees.
Claymills is always seeking volunteers to support the museum – everything from engineering to catering, from front-of-house to tour guides, from administration to gardening, from catering to cleaning. If you have a skill, Claymills can probably use it!
The role of the Front of House Volunteer is to support the museum’s front of house activities with oversight by the Museum Manager. Front of House Volunteers welcome visitors to the museum, complete operational tasks associated with the opening of the museum to the public and contribute to the smooth and safe running of the museum in line with all current risk assessments, and safety guidance.
The Pen Museum promotes and preserves the important legacy of Birmingham’s pen trade, which, at its height employed an estimated 8,000 workers, of which 70% were women. The mass production of affordable pens helped improve literacy worldwide and wherever a pen was used it had most likely been manufactured in Birmingham.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Pen Museum please contact the Pen Museum to arrange an informal chat with the Museum Manager and discuss available roles.
PURPOSE OF VOLUNTARY ROLE
To assist, as part of the volunteer team, with the care of the collection of objects in Leominster Museum
MAIN ACTIVITIES/TASKS TO BE SHARED
SKILLS/INTERESTS NEEDED
TIME COMMITMENT
This can be arranged at the volunteer’s convenience and to fit in with the other members of the team.