Volunteer with Leicestershire County Council

Description: Donington le Heath Manor House (DLH) is a surviving example of a medieval home and grounds and is furnished in an early 17th Century style. We have four exciting and diverse volunteering roles available. If you’re interested in either heritage, gardening or working with children, then check out the roles below! 

Volunteer House Interpreter    PDF, 36kbOpens new window

Volunteer Gardener and Interpreter    PDF, 36kbOpens new window

Formal Learning volunteer    PDF, 36kbOpens new window

Description: The 1620s House and Gardens are introducing an innovative new project to engage young people on the autism spectrum from the local community. We are looking for volunteers to help support this exciting new 8 week project. If you enjoy supporting young people and their families and are happy and willing to learn new things then we would love to hear from you.

Autism specialist volunteer    PDF,  34 kbOpens new window

Location: 1620s House and Garden, Donington le Heath, Coalville

Description: An exciting opportunity to unleash your creativity. We are looking for volunteers to prepare and lead an informal family craft activity session once a month.

Saturday art and craft activity volunteer    PDF, 136 kbOpens new window

Location: Melton Library

Description: Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre tells the dramatic story of the Battle of Bosworth on Monday 22nd August 1485, which marked a major turning point in English history. Opportunities to volunteer at the Battlefield are listed below:

Formal Learning volunteer    PDF, 36kbOpens new window

Location: Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre & Country Park

Description: Join like-minded people in the parks around Leicestershire who get together on a regular basis to carry out conservation tasks.

Conservation volunteering  

Location: The conservation days take place at many of our Country Parks

Description: Digital drop-in sessions at libraries support visitors to develop digital skills. The sessions are run as part of the Moneywise Plus project and are aimed at assisting residents of Leicestershire.

Digital Champions    PDF, 285kbOpens new window

Locations: Loughborough, Hinckley and Coalville Libraries
 

Description: Code Club is a nationwide network of free volunteer-led coding clubs for children aged 9-11 that aim to inspire the next generation to get excited about computer science and digital making.

We are looking for volunteers to support these Code Clubs for one hour a week, over an 8 week period and deliver a project a week.  The projects teach children how to program by showing them how to have fun making computer games, animations and websites.

Family Code Club Volunteers, Hinckley     PDF, 464kbOpens new window

Locations:

• Hinckley Library

Description: Melton Carnegie Museum is based at Thorpe End in Melton Mowbray. As a volunteer in the museum you would enhance the work of the Museum Service and professional staff by:

• Helping to create productive food growing areas according to the "Incredible Edibles" ethos.
• Working with other volunteers, maintain the gardens & develop ideas for community food production. - Using your local knowledge to encourage wider community participation with other groups and individuals based on the "Incredible Edibles" project
• Helping with creative projects with garden produce and activities.

Growing the Museum - gardening volunteer    PDF, 465kbOpens new window

Location: Melton Carnegie Museum

Description: To deliver books, cds, dvds to people who are unable to get into the local library in the Glenfield area. This could be due to illness or disability, but the majority of these are older people.

Home Library Service Volunteer    PDF, 55kbOpens new window

Location:

Glenfield Library and local area

Description: A unique opportunity to gain experience in organising, supporting and delivering a range of diverse events within a library setting. Loughborough library is looking for volunteers to support activities including arts and crafts, author/speaker events and the annual children literary festival.

Library Events Volunteer    PDF, 769kbOpens new window

Location: Loughborough Library

Description: Share your love of growing fruit and vegetables with other people in Leicestershire.

Leicestershire Master Gardeners

Description: Help support work club advisors in the setting up and running of weekly clubs. Welcome people to the clubs and help registration.

Meet and Greet Volunteer    PDF, 465kbOpens new window

Locations: based in Libraries across the county.Opens new window

Description: Governors are one of the largest group of volunteers in the country and have an important part to play in raising school standards. The role of the governing board is key to the effectiveness of a school. Ofsted (the national inspection body for schools) has noted that the most effective schools demonstrate effective leadership and management – and this includes the governing board.

School governors provide strategic leadership and accountability in schools. Governors appoint the headteacher and deputy headteacher. It is governors who hold the main responsibility for finance in schools, and they work with the headteacher to make the tough decisions about balancing the budget.

The role of the governing board is a strategic one, its key functions are to:

• Ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
• Hold executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the performance management of staff; and
• Oversee the financial performance of the organisation and make sure its money is well spent.

Almost anyone over 18 years of age can become a governor. There are no particular qualifications or requirements, other than a willingness to give time to the role and a capacity for working with other people. Some schools may however be looking for people with particular skills, such as finance or HR. The type of governor you can become depends on your situation, however all governors have the same roles and responsibilities once part of the governing board.

Once you are appointed as a governor there is a comprehensive training programme available.

Governor Development Service training brochure    PDF,  1.5 mbOpens new window

There are vacancies for governors at schools throughout Leicestershire. If you are interested please contact the Governor Development Service – email governors@leics.gov.uk or telephone 0116 305 6430.

Description: Help bring great literature to life through the practice of Shared Reading! Volunteer to lead a weekly shared reading group for adults and get involved in: selecting and preparing literature, reading aloud with the group and taking lead in discussions.

Shared Reading Group Leader Wigston    PDF,  28 kbOpens new window

Shared Reading Group Leader Blaby     PDF, 35 kbOpens new window

Shared Reading Group Leader Hinckley    PDF, 38 kbOpens new window

Shared Reading Group Leader Earl Shilton    PDF,  35 kbOpens new window

Locations: Wigston, Blaby, Earl Shilton or Hinckley libraries

Description: Activities may range from helping to explain paragraph use, or where a learner might put an apostrophe, to making the tea or lending a sympathetic ear to a personal problem. The volunteer will be required to sit on a one to one basis with a specific learner and for this reason, will need to have a British Sign Language qualification at level 1.

Locations:

Groby

Supporting Adult Learners in an English Class, Groby    PDF, 466kb

Melton

Supporting Adult Learners in an English Class, Melton    PDF, 470kbOpens new window

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Description: Sure Start in North West Leicestershire is looking for people interested in volunteering at their Children’s Centres.  If you are interested in working with children aged 5 and under and their families, this could be the volunteering opportunity for you!  We have volunteering opportunities in our Stay and Play groups, staff led groups and much more, so please get in touch for details.

If you would like a more in depth chat about how you could help us and how we could help you, contact Heather Wood, Parent and Community Involvement Worker on 0116 305 5328 or via email heather.wood@leics.gov.uk.

Description: Tree Wardens are appointed as guardians of your local trees and are also a source of advice and can help you organise a tree planting scheme.

Tree Warden    PDF, 1.12mbOpens new window

Description: Driving transport is provided for shopping, visiting friends and relatives, social activities, health appointments and in some cases for hospital appointments.

For more information contact the Transport Operations Service:

Email: TO@leics.gov.uk

Telephone: 0116 305 0002

Description: We are looking for young volunteers aged 13-17 to help us uncover the truth behind historical crimes in Melton. This is an exciting project and as a volunteer you will be involved in:

• Researching famous crimes such as the Great Stilton Cheese Robbery, Peppermint Billy and Painting the Town Red 
• Discovering museum objects and learning how to 3D scan them
• Designing and creating a community display that will feature in the museum. This could involve the use of newspaper clippings, photographs, objects, text and images.
• Sharing your research on social media

First session: 11 May

Melton young volunteer’s museum group – role description    PDF, 56kbOpens new window

Young volunteers museum group poster     PDF, 354kbOpens new window

Location: Melton Carnegie Museum 

Description: Helping young people avoid further offending and make amends for previous offences, plus to encourage and guide personal growth.

Youth Offending Service 

Could you spare a few hours a month to be an independent visitor to a child in care?

For some children in care, all of the adults around them are professionals, such as social workers and foster carers.

An independent visitor is someone a young person can establish a relationship with outside of their foster or residential home, who can be a consistent figure in their lives.

You may go bowling, to the cinema or somewhere completely different, but the benefit to the young person is having an adult who is there for them, to listen, support and encourage them during their time in care and often beyond this time.

You would be a volunteer but agreed expenses are paid. 

For more information, contact the Fostering Recruitment team on 0116 305 0505 or by emailing fosteringandadoption@leics.gov.uk