Live, Work & Travel in the UK & Ireland
Gap Year & Voluntary Work
Unpaid Positions & Adventure
Aberdeen International Youth Festival - The Festival attracts an array of talent from across the world and offers you a chance to experience a range of quality and diverse performances. Over 60 temporary and volunteer staff are required during the Festival. Positions include administration, production, transport, pastoral staff, participant liaison and runners.
Active Training and Education - ATE require monitors, over the age of 17, to work at summer camps located in castles or mansions. Applicants must complete a seven day residential training course to learn children's songs, games and crafts. Though there are some fees to be paid during the application and training period, ATE will refund your travel expenses after the summer camp and provide a financial 'thank you'.
Amnesty International - Amnesty run a minimum three month volunteer programme in their offices in London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff. Volunteers are involved in campaigning, marketing, media and general support and can claim travel expenses and luncheon vouchers for the days they work.
Badaguish Outdoor Centre - An outdoor activity centre in the Cairngorms National Park, volunteers assist group leaders. Full board and lodging is provided plus £30 pocket money per week.
British Museum - One of the leading museums in the world, volunteers take on a number of roles including guiding tours, stewarding and managing sleep overs for young people spending a night at the museum.
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers - Week or weekend long conservation projects in Britain.
British Waterways - Website for the organisation responsible for maintaining Britain's old industrial canals. There are plenty of volunteer opportunities to be found among the waterside societies.
Camphill Communities of Ireland - There are about nine Camphill communities in the Republic of Ireland. Young people often volunteer to join a Camphill community for a short period. They give valuable help in the running of households, craft workshops, the working of the land and educational activities.
Camphill Rudolf Steiner School - An independent voluntary day and residential school near Aberdeen.
Cathedral Camps - Help to clean and restore historic cathedrals and churches.
Centre for Alternative Technology - Working for a sustainable future with help from volunteers.
Charles Dickens Museum - Volunteers help with publicity, marketing, cleaning, admin and conservation among other roles.
Community Service Volunteers - Projects in the UK for Brits and foreigners.
Conservation Volunteers Northern Ireland - Conservation Volunteers Northern Ireland (CVNI) is a registered charity involved in practical conservation work. Work is carried out throughout Northern Ireland. Task projects include a diverse variety of activities such as tree-planting, dry-stone walling, path creation, river clearance and pond construction as well as office work. The organisation also provides an extensive range of training courses.
Edinburgh International Film Festival - Had, in 2008, 80 paid, 120 volunteer and nine internship positions.
Electric Picnic - Irish music festival that has volunteer roles on offer.
Euro Practice - Internships, language courses, work and study programmes and au pair positions for European students. Offices in France, England, Germany and Spain.
Ffestiniog Railway Company - The oldest independent railway company in the world offers a chance to fulfil every boys' first career choice.
Florence Nightingale Museum - A small independent museum dedicated to the lady with the lamp, the FNM has a volunteer programme.
Garden Museum - Situated on the South Bank of the Thames, opposite the Houses of Parliament, the Garden Museum welcomes volunteers with an interest in gardening. Volunteers receive a free lunch in return.
Gatecrasher - Music festival. There may be possibilities for free entrance in exchange for volunteer work.
GBGuide.com - UK jobs search site.
Glastonbury - The big music festival in Somerset. Paid jobs available for skilled technical staff and security. Also opportunities to work for your ticket or gain work experience.
The Gorilla Organization - An international charity led by experienced African conservationists dedicated to saving the world’s last remaining gorillas from extinction. Volunteers are wanted to help out in the UK. Tasks include volunteering in the office, public collectors, fundraising interns, festival volunteers and Great Gorilla Run marshals.
Hackney Independent Living Team - Voluntary community work.
Hay Festival - Literary festival held in Wales attracting luminaries such as Salman Rushdie, Jeremy Clarkson and Jools Holland and Martin Amis. Both volunteer and paid jobs available. Welsh language skills an advantage for some positions.
Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust - Volunteers wanted.
Holy Island Project - Working holidays available at a peaceful Yorkshire Buddhist centre. 35 hours labour a week in exchange for food, lodging and teachings.
HorseWorld - A Bristol charity caring primarily for horses, ponies and donkeys, they rescue, rehabilitate and rehome animals who have been abandoned, neglected or ill treated. Volunteer roles include helping out in the tack shop, stable assistant and working with children as animal encounter assistants. Work experience is also an option here and paid employment, when available, is listed on the jobs page.
IAESTE UK - The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience arranges on the job training for science and engineering university students.
Imperial War Museum - Volunteers can work at any of the five branches of the IWM including joining the ship's company of HMS Belfast or military vehicle conservation.
Independent Living Alternatives - ILA recruits full-time volunteers for 4 months or more, to enable disabled people to live independently.
Ironbridge Gorge Museum - Offers a free lunch to volunteers who dress up in Victorian garb and demonstrate 19th century social and industrial skills to tourists. Accommodation is available in a hostel three miles away.
Isle of Wight Festival - Music festival.
Kentwell Hall - Volunteers are invited to live as a Tudor for a couple of weeks to demonstrate how a Tudor house might have been lived in, operated and sustained a community in its heyday in the 16th Century.
Kew Gardens - Discovery, Information, Horticultural and Schools & Families volunteer programmes available.
Life Improvements for Everyone - LIFE is run by a young team of postgraduates and newly qualified professionals in the health, social care, and education sector and provide career advice, professional led conferences, and therapeutic and social interventions to disadvantaged people.
London Transport Museum - London's red buses are world famous while the London Underground map is a design classic, and these, along with posters, uniforms and rolling stock make up the collection at the LTM. Volunteer duties may involve meeting visitors, providing guided tours, handling and cataloguing the reserve collections, helping in the library or stewarding vehicles at Depot Open Weekends. Work experience is also available.
Mission to Seafarers - One year programme assisting chaplains. Committed Christians only.
Monkey Sanctuary - Home to a colony of woolly monkeys, the Sanctuary accepts several dozen volunteers a year. Volunteers stay for 2 to 4 weeks and contribute a small sum towards the cost of accommodation and food.
Museum of London - Provides a list of its current volunteer opportunities on its website.
National Maritime Museum - The Museum, located in Greenwich, is keen to involve more people from the local community in its work. There are opportunities to become involved on a voluntary basis, mainly working in the galleries.
Natural History Museum - One of the top museums of its kind in the world, the Natural History Museum has over 200 volunteers unified by a shared interest in nature.
NBV Leisure - A specialist tour operator providing holidays to the French, Swiss and Austrian Alps, both in the winter and summer, NBV offer three to 12 month student placements in the UK office.
Oxfam Stewarding - Oxfam provide stewarding for a number of festivals including Glastonbury, Womad, Reading and Leeds. Priority is given to past stewards and regular supporters of Oxfam, with unfilled positions opened up to the public from around the end of March. Stewarding roles vary from festival to but could involve working the gate, showing people where to camp or looking out for fires. Oxfam stewards are able to get away from the muck and mess of a festival, they have their own camping area, toilets and showers, and receive meal tickets. Alternatively consider campaigning for Oxfam, getting festival goers to take part in Oxfam's festival activities. Both roles require you to be 18 years old and to pay a refundable deposit by credit or debit card.
Rockinbeerfest - Smaller and less glamorous festivals, such as this one in Cambridge, also want volunteers. Stewards work for four hours a day for two days in exchange for a ticket and free camping.
RSPB - In the UK, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has a flexible volunteer programme. Volunteers can participate for a day, week or month in a number of different roles.
Science Museum - All you need to volunteer at the Science Museum is to be over 18, enthusiasm and willing to get stuck in.
Sea Watch Foundation - A national marine conservation research charity dedicated to the protection of whales, dolphins and porpoises around the UK. Volunteer work available.
Tate Modern - Has a limited number of internships.
Trees for Life - Volunteers needed to restore the Caledonian Forest in Scotland. No special skills or qualifications are needed to participate but, because the work is often in remote areas, volunteers need to be relatively fit but not exceptionally so.
United Nations International Volunteer Projects - Over 1000 projects in Europe and North America as well as a more specialised programme of projects in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Urban Saints - Christian youth organisation. Volunteer holiday helpers required.
Victoria and Albert Museum - Volunteers assist in many activities and departments. They work on the Information desks, as tour guides, as escorts for people with disabilities, and also in administrative roles in the offices. Work experience is also available.
Vinspired.com - A government initiative to promote volunteer work in the UK, this website provides a search for opportunities such as hostel work, disaster relief, with emergency services and includes under 16 volunteering.
Voluntary Service Belfast - Undertake community and conservation tasks in the province and gain experience that can lead to nationally recognized qualifications.
Volunteer Developement Agency Northern Ireland - A government agency offering assistance to those looking to volunteer in Northern Ireland.
Volunteer Developement Scotland - Government assistance to those looking to volunteer in Scotland.
Volunteering Ireland - A helpful resource centre for anything and everything to do with volunteering in Ireland. They are not an employer or even a recruiter of volunteers for themselves but they do try to find volunteers for Irish organisations that need them.
Waterway Recovery Group Canal Camps - Another project in Britain concerned with preserving the industrial past, Canal Camp volunteers may find themselves feeding 20 hungry workers, clearing gloop from a canal and learning to lay bricks. Camps last a week and cost around £50. Food and accommodation is provided.
WCVA - Government assistance to those looking to volunteer in Wales.
Welsh Highland Railway - Owned by the Ffestiniog Railway and offering similar volunteer activities, the WHR winds its way on a 19 and a half mile journey through Snowdonia National Park.
Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales - Resident full time Wardens oversee the running of Skomer Island, open to visitors between April and October. Up to six vacancies are available each week from March. Wardens assist with managing day visitors and overnight paying guests, conservation work and buildings maintenance. Accommodation is simple and volunteers need to bring their own food.
Winant and Clayton Volunteers - A UK US friendship programme, volunteers do community work in the east end of London and receive free room and board during a seven week volunteer placement. A similar programme is offered for UK volunteers in America.
ZSL - Various types of volunteer work are available at both London and Whipsnade Zoos. Volunteers should be over 18 with no upper age limit. Two week experience placements are also available.
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