Visitor Experience Volunteer - Gwynedd Museums and Art Gallery

Are you interested in art and history?  Do you have a few hours to spare each week or month?  Storiel will be opening this Autumn in the centre of Bangor.  It’s not a new museum and gallery, more a new chapter in the history of the Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor.  We are moving to a new space and are looking for individuals to support Storiel staff in providing the best visitor experience for everyone.  The ability to speak Welsh and English to a conversational level is essential to the role.  A deep understanding of art and history is not required.  Meeting and supporting visitors will be a big part of the role and you will meet people from all over the world so good interpersonal skills are required.  We are looking for facilitators to support the history galleries, art galleries, the shop, reception, tourist information point and the learning space.

 

For further information contact Mantell Gwynedd on 01286 672626 or volunteer@mantellgwynedd.com

Volunteer Shared Reading Facilitator - North Wales Make Friends with a Book project

North Wales 'Make Friends with a Book' Project is looking for volunteers to facilitate shared reading groups across Gwynedd. 

The role is to enable people to benefit from a regular shared reading experience. Paired with another volunteer facilitator, you will be responsible for delivering a shared reading group on a weekly basis. 

Time commitment per week:  2-3 hours (You will need to prepare for and deliver a session at the same time each week. The session itself will last for around an hour and a half).

 

For further information contact Mantell Gwynedd on 01286 672626 or volunteer@mantellgwynedd.com

 

Steward - All Wales Boat Show

The All Wales Boat Show 2016 takes place in Pwllheli on the stunning Llŷn Peninsula. It will be the second time this event will have taken place at Plas Heli, the new Welsh National Sailing Academy and Events Centre.

The show, now in its fifth year, is a celebratory festival of all water-based activities and is unique to the region. The aim of the boat show is to help promote North Wales and its relation to the marine sector through promoting careers, exhibitors and the exciting outdoor sector, known to be the best in the UK.  

Your role as a steward is to be a friendly face to visitors, help with car parking facilities, direct people from your information point to all the ongoing attractions. Be present at entry gates for tickets and oversee membership and hospitality areas.

For further information contact Mantell Gwynedd on 01286 672626 or volunteer@mantellgwynedd.com

Retention and Recruitment Officer – St John Cymru Wales

 

An exciting opportunity has arisen within St John Cymru Wales to assist with the Recruitment and Retention of volunteers across your County.  For further information contact Mantell Gwynedd on 01286 672626 or volunteer@mantellgwynedd.com

Rhododendron Clearance – Snowdonia Society and The Dref Werdd

Rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum) is an invasive species to Wales. In a partnership between the Snowdonia Society and Y Dref Werdd an area in Tanygrisiau will be cleared of the invasive species. Y Dref Werdd is a lottery funded environmental community project in the Bro Ffestiniog area. One of many projects Y Dref Werdd has is the ‘Rhododendron Clearance and Control project’ which intends on clearing areas where Rhododendron is present. Our aim is to free the area from this invasive species by cutting the branches using bow saws and loppers.

 

For further information contact Mantell Gwynedd on 01286 672626 or email volunteer@mantellgwynedd.com

Ambassador – Tennis Connect Wales

Tennis is seen by many as an elite sport, enjoyed only by those who can afford to travel to, and join, private tennis clubs in their nearest large town. At Tennis Connect we want to change that reality and help give greater opportunities to children living in more disadvantaged areas of Wales to get involved with the sport. 

As one of our Ambassadors you will play a key role in growing the influence of Tennis Connect in Wales, by connecting schools with local tennis coaches, and vice versa.   

Our work involves speaking schools and coaches, either in person or over the phone, to get an agreement in principle from both parties, before putting them in contact with each other to finalise the arrangement and agree timings. 

You can give as little, or as much, time to the cause as you like, but a passion for tennis is a must..  For further information contact Mantell Gwynedd on 01286 672626 or volunteer@mantellgwynedd.com

Lab in a Lorry - Science Communicator

Are you interested in communicating science to a young audience? Then we need you! Lab in a Lorry www.labinalorry.org.uk is a mobile science lab that visits secondary schools around the Wales giving pupils the chance to participate in hands-on experiments while being guided by scientists and engineers from the local area. We will be touring around Wales from September 2015 - March 2017.

 

We need people with any scientific background aged 18 and over to come along to present our interactive physics experiments to 11-14 year old school pupils. You will receive full training beforehand and receive free IOP and STEMNET Ambassador membership as a result and a host of freebies. The aim is to inspire the children and to engage with them, showing how physics and science is involved in the world around them and how it can be used in their future lives and careers.  For further information contact Mantell Gwynedd on 01286 672626 or email volunteer@mantellgwynedd.com

 

 

Online transcription of historical maps & documents - Cynefin Project

This is an unique opportunity to volunteer online with the Cynefin project. 

We are looking for volunteers to help transcribe tithe maps and documents from the 1840s.  There are approximately 1,200 maps and 30,000 pages of documents to be transcribed.

Cynefin is a Heritage Lottery Funded project which is conserving, digitising and transcribing the tithe maps of Wales in order to create an innovative online resource that will be free for all to access. This online resource is the first of its kind and it will change the way that people can access and research the history of Wales through tithe maps.

All the volunteering work is done online on the cynefin.wales crowdsourcing website and can be done at a time and pace which suits you.
For further information contact Mantell Gwynedd on 01286 672626 or volunteer@mantellgwynedd.com