Volunteer with Leicestershire County Council

Help make heritage, libraries and cultural activities more relevant and interesting to young people.

Community Exhibition Panel volunteer    PDF,  92 kbOpens new window

Cultural Youth Forum Volunteer (ages 13-21)    PDF,  37 kbOpens new window

Description: Bosworth Battlefield are looking for a team of volunteers to help deliver their annual anniversary event.

Engagement volunteers (1620s House and Gardens)

Volunteer and help us discover new ways to engage audiences at the 1620s House and Gardens, in Donington-Le-Heath

Audience Development volunteer - June 2022 onwards    PDF,  66 kbOpens new window

Engagement volunteer - summer 2022    PDF,  63 kbOpens new window

Location: Community venues in Hugglescote area. 1620s House and Gardens.

Description: The Children and Family Wellbeing Service is a multi-agency service that works with young people 0 to 19 years of age.

Volunteer with the Children and Family Wellbeing Service 

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

We’re looking for volunteers over the age of 18 who are passionate about the environment, recycling and climate change to help raise awareness of waste and sustainability issues.

The role of an Environment Action Volunteer is a diverse yet rewarding one, that will give you the opportunity to encourage positive behavioural change by offering practical support to community projects as well as providing advice to friends, family, neighbours and the wider public in order to motivate them to take action to reduce their environmental impact.

If you are interested in becoming an Environment Action Volunteer, please visit Less Waste to find out how you can apply, and for further information, please contact the Waste and Environment team by emailing wasteprevention@leics.gov.uk or call 0116 305 7005.

We’re looking for independent visitors who can spare a few hours a month to make a big difference to a young person in care.

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.

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

As an independent visitor, you cannot be:

• an elected member or partner / spouse of the local authority (or any committees or sub-committees) responsible for the child in care
• employed by, or a spouse of, someone employed by  Childrens Social Care
• an employee, patron or trustee of an associated organisation (such as an independent fostering agency)

You would be a volunteer but agreed expenses are paid.

For more information, contact the Fostering Recruitment team on 0116 305 0505 or by using the simple enquiry form

Shared Reader Leader Volunteer

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.

If you are interested in becoming a Reader Leader, please visit our website to read the role description and find out more.

Alternatively, you can email leicssharedreading@gmail.com or give Nicky (07415 125409) or Ruth (07940 817214) a call. 

Shared Reader Leader Volunteer role description    PDF,  64 kbOpens new window

Location: volunteers needed at the following libraries: Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Loughborough, Hinckley (and online via Zoom)

Museum Gardening Volunteer

Description: Garden volunteers at Melton Museum are busy preparing for this year’s 'It’s Your Neighborhood' awards. We're looking for volunteers to join our team and help us grow the museum gardens! If you're a keen gardener, or just want to learn more about growing produce, we want to hear from you.

Location: Melton Carnegie Museum

Museum gardening volunteer role description    PDF,  67 kbOpens new window

Contact: bethany.nugent@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