Support
The London Canal Museum is a registered charity and an Accredited Museum run and staffed mainly by volunteers, to professional standards.
We are always looking out for new people with a variety of skills. People with specific skills to offer are espcially welcome. The range of tasks in running a museum is very varied.
If you are interested in volunteering, contact volunteering@canalmuseum.org.uk except where otherwise stated.
Museum volunteers are motivated by a wide range of factors. Here are some of the common ones but it is not an exclusive list!
We will re-imburse travel expenses and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and up to £3 per day for lunch food when a full day is worked. These are reimbursed by cheque, usually once a month, or more often if there are larger sums involved.
Currently we are looking for volunteers to undertake the following roles - click on the role title to find out more
Front-of-House Volunteers (0945-1700 Tuesdays to Sundays, one or two days per fortnight)
Adult Group Customer Services (both administrative and practical)
In this section we list vacancies for volunteer positions which we are currently seeking to fill. Please remember that all positions are unpaid - do not apply if you are looking for a salary.
We are looking for fixed term volunteers to take part in a youth work pilot project. You will be asked to commit to a day per week for 11 weeks. You will:
We would also like the successful candidate to assist the Volunteering Manager with internal communications by developing robust and consistent methods of communication, which will ensure our volunteers are kept informed of what is happening in the museum.
You will need to meet the following requirements
Please see the link below for a full role description in PDF format.
Read detailed role description (PDF format)
Our volunteers and trustees are very busy and we can always do with an extra helping hand in the following areas:
We are seeking a Shop Stock Administrator to keep our shop computer system up to date with all the shop stock that has been delivered and then to ensure that this stock is added to the shop itself.
You will also be expected to assist the Shop Manager with ordering new stock and stock checking.
You will be expected to come in regularly for half a day every week, approximately 4 hours. We are flexible on which day this is (except Mondays when the museum is not open), however the Shop Manager works on Tuesdays, and it would be good in the beginning you were able to come in on Tuesdays for training. However, this is negotiable. In the long term, liaising with the Shop Manager can be done by telephone
We need someone who:
We are looking for a training officer to train new and existing volunteers. Training will mostly be on a one-to-one or one-to-few basis and will take place both on-the-job and in small seminars that you will organise. One of our aims is to improve the training of our people and your role will be critical in that. Areas to be covered will be a mixture of the technical and the "soft" but important areas such as customer care. Training will be given in:
Hours of work will be flexible and will include some weekends. You will organise your own diary dates and programme. You should expect to be in the museum roughly two days a week but only for a few hours at a time, not usually a full day.
Computer literacy is essential. Some experience of training, or evidence of aptitude for it, is desirable.
