Volunteer with us!

Our volunteers are vital in supporting our work. We have a range of exciting opportunities for you to get involved, both with the public and behind the scenes.

All our opportunities have flexible commitment requirements and aim to provide a rewarding and enriching experience.

If you're passionate about culture and heritage and have some free time to offer, why not volunteer with us and be part of something extraordinary? Take a look at our current opportunities:

Collections Move Volunteer

We are looking for volunteers to assist us with a large-scale project to move our collections into a new storage facility. 

The project will involve helping our team to carefully pack objects, move them to the new extension, and keep accurate records of movement, ensuring that all objects remain safe at all times. 

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a friendly and supportive team on a major project, getting hands-on with a variety of objects and contributing to the important behind-the-scenes work of our museum service.

This opportunity is based at our museum store in Ossett. The museum store is a COVID-secure site. 

For more information about this opportunity, please email Leah Mellors, Collections & Exhibitions Manager, on lmellors@wakefield.gov.uk.  

Exhibition Invigilation Volunteer

We are looking for Exhibition Invigilation Volunteers to invigilate ‘Bracing Air, Abundant Amusements: The Travel Posters of Charles Pears’, our new exhibition at Pontefract Museum. 

You will welcome visitors to the exhibition space, provide information about the objects on display, and help our Visitor Experience Assistants to monitor the security of the exhibition, which includes a number of loaned objects from national museums. You will help us to ensure that every visitor to the exhibition feels welcome, learns something new, and has an enjoyable visit.

This opportunity is based at Pontefract Museum, 5 Salter Row, Pontefract, WF8 1BA. Pontefract Museum is a COVID-secure site. 

For more information about this opportunity, please email Leah Mellors, Collections & Exhibitions Manager, on lmellors@wakefield.gov.uk.  

Charles Pears exhibition, with thank to the Royal Society of Marine Artists