Join our Customer Service & Administration Team and help provide a friendly and welcoming experience for our visitors. Volunteers support customers with enquiries, ticketing and general information, as well as helping with a range of administrative tasks behind the scenes. This is an ongoing volunteer role with a variety of opportunities, ideal for people who enjoy working with others and keeping things organised.
Help bring the Bluebell Railway’s stations to life as part of a friendly volunteer team. Station Operatives help with the day-to-day running of our stations, welcoming visitors, assisting passengers, supporting train operations and helping keep the station looking its best. This is an ongoing volunteer role with plenty of variety and the opportunity to play an important part in the visitor experience.
Join the Bluebell Railway’s catering team and help provide great food and service for our visitors. Working as part of a friendly volunteer team, you could be involved in serving customers, preparing food and drinks, working in our cafés or supporting catering at special events and dining services. This is an ongoing volunteer role with opportunities to get involved across different areas of catering.
Working alongside one of our Kitchen Managers, you will assist with preparing and serving high-quality food and drinks. You will also support the Kitchen Team with serving customers and helping to ensure the kitchen and café areas are kept safe, clean and tidy. You will need to enjoy working well as part of a team and be friendly and confident when engaging with customers.
Do you have experience constructing model kits? This can be with plastic model kits, scratch-building, or general woodworking experience. As part of creating our museum experience, we are seeking model maker volunteers to help construct an array of aviation models to go on display. This is a relaxed position where you'll be guided through the process of what we're looking to build, before using your own initiative to work on an item.
The role involves assisting with an activity you're familiar with that would help the student to learn new skills, enhance creative abilities or learn new creative abilities, and participate in rewarding activities. We would also be open to running other activities volunteers are knowledgeable about that would be beneficial to students.
As part of our friendly team, you will attend local groups and community activities, offering information, guidance, and signposting to relevant services, support organisations, and community groups. You may also help people complete a range of forms, including Attendance Allowance applications and other benefit-related paperwork, giving them the confidence and support they need to access available help.
Our website is ready for a refresh to help keep our charity up to date and easy to learn about online. In order to limit costs we are constructing a new website utilising the IONOS web designer, and are seeking someone with a flair for web design to help create us a professional presence online.
Our network of skilled volunteers respond to thousands of requests each year to design and make customised equipment free of charge.
The Office of the Sussex PCC manages up to 45 dedicated volunteers who undertake vital duties for its Independent Custody Visiting (ICV) scheme. Representatives from the community are recruited and appointed on a geographical basis to visit the five police custody centres including Eastbourne and Hastings.