Volunteering Opportunities

This page lists current volunteering roles with local charities and organisations in Bath. If you can't find something you are interested in at the moment, please check back in the future. If there is a charity you'd like to work with which isn't listed, or if you have a volunteering idea you would be interested in setting up, contact the SU team on volunteers@bath.ac.uk

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Showing 1 to 10 of 16 opportunities

Activity Supporter

Bath Gateway Out and About

This opportunity takes place between 27 Sep 2024 and 04 Apr 2025 Closing date for applications is 04 Apr.
The club is looking for volunteers to help support our learning disabled members during their weekly Social and Leisure Activities (on Monday or Wednesday evenings between 7-9pm), along with occasional day trips and holidays. Volunteer training will be provided, including free safeguarding and first aid courses. This is a massively rewarding role that will enable the volunteer to gain skills in caring for and helping vulnerable adults.
Bath Gateway Out and About provides age appropriate Social and Leisure Activities on a weekly basis for our members of 18 years plus who have many different kinds of disabilities.

Our aim is to help and support our members get out and about and experience some of the pleasures of life that others may take for granted.

Our club is looking for volunteers to help support our members to enjoy Social and Leisure Activities on a weekly basis, for example their programme will include: meals out; boat trips; cinema visits; attendingnight clubs and discos; panto; summer B-B-Qs; picnics in the park; pub visits; day trips; an annual holiday excursion; fundraising events and much more!

The weekly activities take place on Monday or Wednesday evenings between 7pm and 9pm.
- Work withAdults and Older People, Disability and Health
- Role TypeCommunity Volunteer
- Communication Skills
- Cultural Awareness
- Initiative
- Sport
- Teamwork
- Time Management
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Supporting People with Dementia

ReMind UK

This opportunity takes place between 12 Jun 2024 and 30 Jun 2025 Closing date for applications is 01 Apr.
Providing support to patients that have already been diagnosed with Dementia or going through the process.Meeting and greeting patients.Offering support to patients or loved ones.Supporting patients at organised courses/workshops.
Meeting and greeting patients.
Offering support to patients or loved ones.
Supporting patients at organised courses/workshops.
- Work withAdults and Older People, Disability and Health
- Role TypeCommunity Volunteer
- Communication Skills
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Welcome Ambassador

Bath BID

This opportunity takes place between 01 Jan 2025 and 31 Dec 2025 Closing date for applications is 20 Apr.
Welcome Ambassadors are the friendly faces of the city of Bath, part of a team of volunteers providing a warm and informed welcome to Bath city centre for visitors, workers and residents.
The role involves providing a welcome to the city of Bath, handing out free maps to visitors, finding and sharing information for visitors, and recording enquiries.

We are always on the lookout for enthusiastic people over 18 years of age who are warm and friendly, with strong interpersonal skills. The team are out and about in all weathers, and applicants must be able to stand and walk for a four-hour shift. You must be proud to show off this city, with a good knowledge of Bath. This might mean you are from the local area originally, or you have lived in/around Bath for at least a year.

The role requires giving around eight hours per month on a rota basis (two 4-hour shifts). Welcome Ambassadors operate predominantly Thursday to Sunday between 10am and 4pm. Shifts are 10am to 2pm or 12pm to 4pm, with a short break in between. During busy periods for the city, such as Bath Christmas Market, there are more ambassador hours and days. The Welcome Ambassador shifts are in Bath city centre greeting and helping tourists and other visitors.

If you’d like us to send you a full role description and an application form, please email welcomevc@bathbid.co.uk.
- Work withAdults and Older People, Arts and Culture, Other
- Role TypeCommunity Volunteer
- Commercial Awareness
- Communication Skills
- Cultural Awareness
- IT Skills
- Organisation/Planning
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork
- Time Management
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Performers wanted

Bath Gateway Out and About

This opportunity is ongoing, with no end date. Closing date for applications is 01 Apr.
We are looking for any fantastic performers, all considered, to entertain our lovely group of adults with learning disabilities.We will supply you a chance to showcase your talents, practice your acts , a free venue, a very willing audience and also some free publicity (if you would like this)
We are Bath Gateway Out and About, supporting adults with learning disabilities to get `out and about ` and enjoy social pleasures that you and I probably take for granted .

We run two clubs per week for about thirty members, one on a Monday night, the other a wednesday night, both running from 7-9pm .

We are looking for people to showcase their talents to a really enthusiastic audience . Doesn't have to be for two hours , but maybe up to an hour (or less) on an ad hoc basis , but if you do a Monday , we wouldlove it if in the same week , you could repeat your act on the Wednesday , this way , none of our lovely members miss out .

We will consider anything; singers, choirs, poets, actors, dancers, artists, musicians, magicians, bands, dj's, fitness instructors, painters and anything that we have missed. If you think you would like to perform with us and for us, please get in touch. We know within the University of our lovely City there is so much talent, we just need to find you!

Further details ping us an email office@bgoa.org.uk or follow the instructions on this site

Really look forward to finding you budding talents out there

Thank you
- Work withAdults and Older People, Children and Young People, Disability and Health, Campaigning and Activism
- Role TypeCommunity Volunteer, Micro-volunteering, Project Leader, Tutor
- Communication Skills
- Cultural Awareness
- Decision Making
- Enterprise
- Initiative
- Leadership
- Organisation/Planning
- Project Management
- Problem Solving
- Sport
- Teamwork
- Time Management
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Bath Marrow Volunteer

Bath Marrow (Anthony Nolan)

This opportunity takes place between 17 Oct 2024 and 31 May 2025
Volunteer at our Marrow stall on campus!Every week we are in the library foyer with swabs ready to sign up potential life savers to the stem cell register. We would really appreciate any volunteers for the 2 hour stall - even if you can only attend part of the session.

Sign up for a week or more here Volunteer Signups (thesubath.com)

It's free to become a Bath Marrow member! Join today by emailing su-marrow@bath.ac.uk and make new friends & help save lives.

More information on what we do at @bathmarrow
- Work withDisability and Health
- Communication Skills
- Initiative
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork
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Friday & Sunday Social Volunteer

Bath Mencap

This opportunity takes place between 03 Feb 2025 and 18 Apr 2025 Closing date for applications is 18 Apr.
We run weekly Friday Night Bowling and a monthly Sunday Club (restaurant meal) for adults with a learning disability. You will be volunteering at these sessions by chatting to members, supporting where needed and helping to create a positive and fun environment.
The commitment is flexible. We have a Whatsapp group with a rota so you can add your name to the dates you'd like to volunteer. We run Friday Night Bowling weekly and Sunday Club monthly (restaurant meal).

We often struggle for volunteers in the summer so we are ideally looking for someone who will be available over the summer.
- Work withAdults and Older People, Disability and Health
- Role TypeCommunity Volunteer
- Communication Skills
- Initiative
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork
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Sydney Gardens Volunteer

Sydney Gardens Project

This opportunity is ongoing, with no end date. Closing date for applications is 05 Apr.
Join this friendly small group gardening session every Wednesday morning in Sydney Gardens.
Garden volunteer group led by Mali Kedward and Matt Watson from Bath and North East Somerset's Parks Department. Activities vary each week but could include planting, weeding, pruning or scrub clearance.

No gardening experience is necessary, but we welcome your skills if you're a gardener! We will provide tools and gloves. Please wear sturdy footwear and long sleeves. Tea and biscuits provided.
- Role TypeCommunity Volunteer
- Work withConservation and Environment
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork
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Peer Mentor

SU Peer Support

This opportunity takes place between 28 Sep 2025 and 31 May 2026
Peer Mentors offer guidance and support to students at the beginning of their University journey by sharing their experience of student life at the University of Bath.
Becoming a Peer Mentor is not only a great way to learn and develop valuable skills to help with your employabilty, but also helps with networking and building a sense of community within in your department.
- Work withOther
- Role TypeSU Volunteer
- Communication Skills
- Cultural Awareness
- Leadership
- Organisation/Planning
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork
- Time Management
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Story Time Volunteer

Victoria Art Gallery

This opportunity takes place between 06 Feb 2025 and 21 Apr 2025 Closing date for applications is 21 Apr.
We are looking for volunteers to help us make story time special for all under-5s and their parents or carers who attend the gallery. Help from volunteers enables us to create a welcoming environment for family groups. Thursdays during term time, when exhibitions are on. As and when needed with advance notice.
Activities include:
- Read stories between 10.30 and 11.00am.
- Help set up and pack down storytime space.
- Welcome family groups when they arrive and show them to the correct spaces.
- Read the stories during the session
- Talking with visitors of all ages
- Communicating with Gallery staff.
What's in it for you?
- Active days working with people of all ages including under 5s and adults of various ages.
- Helping young people engage with stories, reading and art.
- Developing public speaking skills.
- Meet other volunteers and staff.
- Get to know more about working in a museum and art gallery and exhibitions.
- Access to a varied schedule of exclusive activities delivered for gallery volunteers including tours and talks.
- Work withChildren and Young People, Arts and Culture
- Communication Skills
- Cultural Awareness
- Teamwork
- Time Management
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Victoria Art Gallery Volunteer

Victoria Art Gallery

This opportunity takes place between 05 Feb 2025 and 20 Dec 2026 Closing date for applications is 31 Mar.
If you have an interest in art and an aptitude for dealing with the public, we would love to hear from you!
Victoria Art Gallery is the public art museum in Bath. It is run by Bath & North East Somerset Council and houses its collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.
The building was designed in 1897 by John McKean Brydon, and has been designated as a Grade II listed building. The exterior of the building includes a statue of Queen Victoria, by Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, and friezes of classical figures by G. A. Lawson.

The Gallery was named to celebrate Queen Victoria's sixty years on the throne. It includes over 1,500 decorative arts treasures, including a display of British oil paintings from 17th century to the present day with works by Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones Barker and Walter Sickert.
- Communication Skills
- Cultural Awareness
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork
- Time Management
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Community Volunteer	Sports Coach
Fundraiser	SU Volunteer
Micro-volunteering	Tutor
Project Leader	Virtual

Adults and Older People	Conservation and Environment
Children and Young People	Arts and Culture
Disability and Health	Campaigning and Activism
Schools and Education	Other

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