Ready to make a difference? Complete our Expression of Interest Form to kickstart your volunteering journey. This form will help us match you with the perfect opportunity looking into your experience, skills, and aspirations.
What happens next?
We will contact you if we have suitable opportunities and invite you for an interview to discuss:
- your requirements and preferences
- necessary checks (if any) will be carried out
- chat about your availability
- We’ll cover paperwork and any potential expenses
- Share any concerns you may have—we’re here to support
- Prepare you for your induction and training process
Thank you for choosing to be part of our volunteer community! Together, we’ll create positive impact.
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Archaeological and historical projects
Your contribution will play a crucial role in protecting and enhancing the county’s rich and diverse historic environment.
You’ll be involved in:
- managing the Lincolnshire’s Historic Environment Record
- providing expert archaeological advice
- recording finds through the Portable Antiquities Scheme
- celebrating local heritage via community projects
- encouraging sustainable heritage-led regeneration
- supporting regeneration in our towns and city that is inspired and influenced by its heritage
- making the most of our heritage to help urban areas thrive into the future
Please note that volunteering opportunities in archaeological and historical projects are dependent on the projects that are running at any given time. Your journey with us promises to be a fulfilling one, filled with learning and discovery.
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Childcare
Volunteer at your local childcare setting to gain some valuable experience in the workplace.
Start your routes into a career in childcare and search for your local provider on the Family Services Directory.
Children's centres
Embark on a rewarding journey as a volunteer at our Children’s Centres. We’re seeking individuals who can dedicate up to three hours each week for a minimum of six months.
Across Lincolnshire, there are 48 children’s centres offering a wide array of volunteer opportunities. Whether you’re a parent, a carer, or simply someone with a keen interest in supporting your local community, there’s a place for you.
Volunteer roles include:
- leading and supporting ‘Stay and Play’ sessions for all families within the local area who have children aged between 0-5 years
- offering welcome visits and promoting the children’s centres offer within your local community as a Parent Champion
- supporting Children’s Centre staff with managing and promoting the re-use -re love within your local children’s centre
Volunteering in a children’s centre will support with continued learning and can lead to other opportunities. Appropriate training is available as well as individual supervision and support.
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Community panel members
As a Community Panel Member, you’ll be the beacon of change for young individuals who have strayed off course. Your role is pivotal in helping them acknowledge their actions and transform their behaviour during our Community Panel Meetings.
These panels are the heart of the Criminal Justice System, fostering collaboration with young people, their parents, and victims.
You’ll be the voice and the ear in these meetings, engaging in meaningful conversations with key individuals, and crafting a tailored plan of action with the young person. This plan will be their roadmap to a better future, steering them away from the path of reoffending.
Your commitment will involve preparing for and participating in a Panel approximately once a week. We ask for your dedication to this cause for a minimum of 12 months post-training. Together, we can make a difference, one young life at a time.
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Countryside access
As a volunteer, you’ll have the opportunity to manage, maintain, and champion these unique networks of footpaths, bridleways, and the 2,500 miles of public rights of way.
These paths are not just routes for walking, cycling, and riding, but lifelines for local journeys to the shops, school runs, dog walks, and gateways to the countryside.
Why volunteer with us?
- you will be making a difference to the rights of way network, a valuable asset for both local people and visitors
- you will be helping to keep the network of rights of way open and easy to use
- you can use your existing skills and develop new ones
- you will gain a sense of achievement and be part of a network of like-minded people
- you will explore and discover the Lincolnshire countryside
- it’s flexible – you can do it when it suits you and for as long as you want
What does volunteering involve?
- regularly checking local footpaths/bridleways or a promoted route to ensure they are open and easy to use
- replacing damaged waymarkers to ensure routes are easy to follow
- removing vegetation overhanging signs, gates, bridges and stiles
- be the eyes and ears on the ground, reporting any problems you find to us
Join our team of volunteers and play a vital role in preserving our heritage, making it accessible for everyone to relish. Your contribution can make a significant difference. We look forward to welcoming you.
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Adult Care daytime opportunities service
The Adult Care daytime opportunities service supports vulnerable people to live life to the full.
We are looking for volunteers who have a passion for life and making a difference.
We support individuals with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, brain injuries, and older people. As a volunteer, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- foster friendships and relationships
- engage in a variety of interests and activities
You can support with these activities which are a great way to improve wellbeing. It is a chance for the people we support to meet others and get out of the house for a few hours.
To socialise and enjoy life. The people we support have personalised activity plans which reflect their interests.
Come and be part of our fantastic team and support people in ‘Living Life to the Full’. We will give full training and support to all volunteers.
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Ellis Mill
Imagine yourself stepping into the world of milling history, learning about a windmill’s essential contribution to the city’s history, and then sharing these fascinating stories with visitors. This could be your journey as a volunteer with us.
Learn more about the windmill and milling history.
Our 1798 Grade II listed windmill, located in uphill Lincoln, is opening its doors this year for the Heritage Weekends and possibly the first Saturday of each month from March to September. Although no longer in full operation, the windmill holds a wealth of history and stories about the millers who were still making flour there until recent years.
As a volunteer, you will welcome visitors, guide them around the ground floor and outside the Mill, and share the captivating stories about the working life of the millers. You’ll also have the opportunity to sell souvenirs, further contributing to our mission.
We provide full induction and training on the history of the Mill and your role as a guide. Support will be provided throughout your time as a volunteer. So, step into the past, bring history to life for others, and become a part of our dedicated team.
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Investigate Learning
If you are looking for something new and want to gain some experience in heritage learning, try joining the Investigate Learning Team. We want you to get involved and share your passion for learning about heritage, arts and culture.
The learning team works across the cultural sites and delivers workshops, guided tours and holiday events. Schools, families, and community groups all visit the sites for sessions with the learning team, so you would be contributing to ensuring they have a fantastic time!
Whether it’s being a medieval archer, walking the castle walls, marching Roman style, or learning about Victorian life, the team delivers a range of history-themed workshops, and our creative arts offers at the Lincoln Museum & Usher Gallery.
There is a wide range of exhibitions and fascinating museum collections to enjoy. We are looking for volunteers who have a passion to support the participants—making their day as memorable as possible.
To find out more about specific roles available, look at the Investigate Learning website or send us an expression of interest.
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Lincoln Castle
Volunteer with us, and you will be joining an award-winning team in one of our varied and inspiring roles. We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help turn our visitors' day out into a walk through 1000 years of history. Every day promises something new and exciting.
As part of the 'welcome team', you would give visitors a warm, friendly greeting and a great goodbye.
Alternatively, you could volunteer to be part of the team that helps maintain and keep the castle and grounds in tip-top condition.
Or perhaps you would prefer to work making sales in the shops, supporting the café staff, or even managing attraction tickets.
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Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project
Are you passionate about nature and eager to make a difference? We are a partnership project that looks after Lincolnshire's rare chalk streams, which arise as springs from reservoirs in the chalk beneath the ground.
These chalk streams provide an ideal habitat for some of our most threatened native species.
Lincolnshire's chalk streams are a characteristic and attractive feature that has helped shape the Lincolnshire Wolds landscape over the past 10,000 years.
If you would like to explore these habitats and help preserve and promote them, please complete an expression of interest.
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Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Service
Our volunteers work in some of the most beautiful unspoilt countryside and places that include areas of outstanding natural beauty.
This work gives you a great excuse to get out for a walk and do something for the environment at the same time.
As volunteers, you will have the opportunity to work with the team to:
- help protect and enhance the landscape and its distinctive features
- survey historic farm buildings in the Lincolnshire Wolds
- record the condition of farm buildings over 100 years old
- walk the footpaths around these historic parishes and register what you find in the hedgerow
- encourage community interest and involvement
- raise awareness of the Wolds
- promote sustainable development
Get in contact with us if you would like to get involved.
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Museum of Lincolnshire Life
The Museum of Lincolnshire life celebrates life in Lincolnshire from 1750 to the present day, providing a trip down memory lane of how things were and people’s lifestyles over the years.
As a volunteer at the museum, you’ll play a crucial role in enhancing visitors’ experiences.
Here’s what we invite you to do:
- help plan the many events we run for visitors, young and old, including quizzes for children, talks about Victorian life, art, and photography workshops
- take part in our ‘living history’ event days and dress up as a character or craft assistant - as a historical character, people will come to visit you within the room sets and talk about your experiences
- interact with visitors, providing them with information about the museum, its crafts, and exhibitions and promoting the i-guides, events, and merchandise and encourage people to visit our shop, where you could also serve
Working as part of a team, you will also encourage visitors to share their thoughts and feedback through donations and visitor survey forms. Monitor and record visitor numbers and the flow around the site, ensuring the safety, security, and comfort of visitors to the site.
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Volunteer drivers
As a volunteer driver you will assist in transporting young people, up to the age of 18, to and from group work sessions, appointments and social activities across Lincolnshire.
Volunteer drivers use their own vehicle to take young people to a range of different activities when other transport is limited or not available.
Many of our young people view their transport as much more than a car journey – it is also an opportunity to have a chat with their driver and to get out and about in the wider world.
We invite you to join our team and contribute a few hours each week. All mileage, parking and reasonable out of pocket expenses will be paid.
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School admission appeals
As a volunteer, you’ll play a crucial role in the appeals process for Lincolnshire schools. Here’s what you can expect:
- when an application to a Lincolnshire school is made and refused, there is an opportunity to appeal the refusal
- three independent panel members come together with the parent or guardian along with the school representative, they discuss each side's case, why the child wishes to attend the school and why the school are unable to accept the application
- once the panel have heard both sides, they are left to deliberate whether they think the decision to refuse should be overturned or not
- we hear appeals via Microsoft Teams throughout the year except in school holidays
- the appeals run county wide so if you have a particular area that you would prefer not to work for then we are able to accommodate that
- appeals usually begin at 09.30am or 10am and each appeal can take anywhere from 45-90 minutes
It is also a great opportunity to work with a group like minded individuals who share your passion for education.
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Group work facilitators
Are you able to commit to a full seven week programme of two hour sessions. You will need to be able to commit to 12 months of volunteering following training.
As a group work facilitator, you are supporting in the delivery of our intervention programmes that are designed to reduce or prevent violence, aggression and abuse in relationships.
Your role will be to help young people to in their process of change, giving them a ‘toolbox’ that contains skills and strategies to maintain healthy and positive relationships.
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Youth activators
As a youth activator, you’ll be at the heart of our vibrant community, shaping the future for young people aged 8 to 18 (with a special focus on those aged 14 and up).
Youth activators support the delivery of our youth clubs, sport and activity programmes to a broad range of young people involved in our community sessions and events.
Your commitment:
- one session a week: join us for at least one session a week to get the best from the experience
- 12 months of impact: after training, commit to a year of making memories and shaping futures