Our friendly and dedicated volunteers ensure Shoemakers Museum offers a warm welcome and engaging experience to visitors. Right now we are actively recruiting for front of house volunteers with sessions to meet us and find out more taking place in June. Is there a volunteer role here that would suit your skills and interests? We’d love to hear from you.
Can you help us welcome and inspire our visitors, providing information and wayfinding around the museum, sharing your knowledge of the exhibitions and safeguarding the collections on display. Training will be given with time to get to know the collections before we open in September.
Availability: Morning and/or afternoons
Time: half day and full days 9.45 – 1pm and 12.45 to 5pm
Commitment: Regular for at least 3 months
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Help us to prepare and deliver occasional events such as our popular Wassail in January, International Women’s Day events, Summer theatre, temporary exhibitions, and regular activities for adults and families. Or can you help with our education activities? If you enjoy working with people, inspiring others, and have occasional time to offer maybe this events and education role is for you?
Availability: Occasional over seven days a week
Time: half day, full day
Commitment: 3 months minimum
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Volunteer Tour Guides will bring Shoemakers stories to life, helping visitors to engage with the community’s history through insightful and entertaining tours of the galleries. We aim to offer cultural tours of Street as well as gallery tours of Shoemakers Museum.
Availability: Occasional over seven days a week
Time: half day, full day
Commitment: 3 months minimum
If you enjoy tending a garden or looking after a site we’d love to hear from you. Towards the end of the year we will be looking for garden volunteers able to help with garden maintenance and orchard care, as well as the creation of flower beds that will add a touch of colour to the grounds. Some tasks include digging, lifting, ladder work and sawing, so please let us know if your preference is for that or lighter work.
Availability: Monday to Saturday
Time: half day
Commitment: 3 months from September
Our collections volunteers help us behind the scenes to care for and research the collections. Please note we are not recruiting for further collections volunteers this year.
Availability: No positions available at the moment
Time: n/a
Commitment: n/a
We aim to offer work experience placements in the future. In the meantime, we welcome younger students who wish to gain experience with us by applying for regular volunteering roles (minimum four hours per week with a commitment of three months). We can take on volunteers under 18 years of age working in pairs. Weekend volunteering is available to help fit around school, college and work commitments.
To apply for any of these roles
To apply for any of these roles please have a look at our role descriptions and see which one would suit you and email us. Let us know with one or two paragraphs outlining why you want to volunteer with us and what area you are interested in.
Find out more about volunteering opportunities at Shoemakers Museum
Information sessions taking place in June 2025
Online and in-person at the museum
Email us for details: hello@shoemakersmuseum.org.uk
To apply for any of these roles To apply for any of these roles please have a look at our role descriptions and see which one would suit you and email us. Let us know with one or two paragraphs outlining why you want to volunteer with us and what area you are interested in. Come along to an information session if you can!
Find out more about volunteering June 2025
Join in a 45min session for potential volunteers taking place this month. Meet us…
In person at the Museum: Thursday 19th June at noon (followed by light refreshments)
Online session: Friday 20th June. 2pm
Online session: Friday 27th June. 10am
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"When I was able to reduce my working hours I had a day to spare each week, I chose to volunteer at Shoemakers Museum because I love history and wanted to learn more about Street's story and Clarks key role in it. Despite living here for nearly 40 years there's so much to discover! I have always felt welcomed and valued as a volunteer and really enjoy being here. "
Nigel, Shoemakers Museum Collections and Events volunteer.
