Volunteer with Leicestershire County Council

Description: A Century of Stories is an exciting new project which supports the people of Leicestershire in exploring their own personal connections to WW1. We have two exciting volunteering roles available:

Legacy Guardian: Support our project participants in researching, sharing and writing about their personal connections to WW1.  

Legacy Guardian    PDF, 770kbOpens new window

Legacy Guardians Volunteer Coordinator: Act as first point of contact for our CoS volunteers. Provide support and advice, co-ordinate administration and initiate team building events.

Legacy Guardians, Volunteer Coordinator    PDF, 771kb

Locations: Home based, Snibston / various venues around the County

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Description: Melton Library is looking for a volunteer to deliver a monthly Saturday family arts and crafts morning. This will involve preparing activities, setting up on the day and supporting families to participate. If you are enthusiastic about arts and crafts then check out this opportunity! 

Art and craft activity volunteer    PDF, 464kbOpens 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:

Festival Event volunteer    PDF, 74kbOpens new window

Family Engagement volunteer    PDF, 58kbOpens 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: 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! 

Family Engagement volunteer    PDF, 58kbOpens new window

Volunteer House Interpreter    PDF, 510kbOpens new window

Volunteer Gardener and Interpreter    PDF, 510kbOpens new window

Schools Learning volunteer    PDF, 465kbOpens new window

Location: Donington le Heath Manor House, Coalville

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, 822kbOpens new window

Locations:

• Hinckley Library

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.

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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.

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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,  28kbOpens new window

Shared Reading Group Leader Groby or Glenfield     PDF, 38kbOpens new window

Shared Reading Group Leader Hinckley    PDF, 38kbOpens new window

Locations: Wigston, Oadby, Glenfield 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 & relatives, social activities, health appointments and in some cases for hospital appointments.

For more information contact the Sustainable Travel Group:

Email: stg@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