Various Volunteering Roles

Who Are We?

Amberley Museum brings to life the industrial and transport heritage of Sussex, and allows you to explore exhibits dating back to the 19th century.

The Roles:

We are currently recruiting for new volunteers to join us in a range of roles across the Museum including:

• Bus Engineering (Administration, electric tool inspection, and cleaning)
• Broom Makers
• Curatorial (Cleaning collections and conservation)
• Cycle Shop
• Electricity Hall (Visitor-facing roles)
• Facilities (Grounds & Maintenance)
• Fire Station (Visitor-facing roles)
• Greenwood Village (Visitor-facing craft volunteers, training provided)  Learning (Family activities in the school holidays / Care home outreach)  Machine Shop
• Paviors
• Plumbers (Lead working, training provided)
• Print Shop
• Radio and TV (Visitor-facing roles)
• Rail (Train crew for whole open days / Engineering and workshop experience)
• Signal Box (Training provided)
• Standard Gauge Railway (Restoration project)
• Stationary Engines
• Steam Crane (Restoration project)
• Welcome Team (Meeting and greeting visitors on arrival, training provided)
• Wheelwrights (Training provided)
• Woodturners (Training provided)

Volunteers can help us at Amberley Museum any day of the week.

We are open to visitors Wednesdays to Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays from 10.00am to 4.30pm until 29 October. (We are also open to visitors Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays through our winter season.) But even when we are closed to visitors, our dedicated team of volunteers maintain the site, as well as the huge variety of historic collections we hold.

If you are interested, please go to our website for more information https://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/join-and-support/volunteer/, contact us directly at volunteer@amberleymuseum.co.uk, or make an enquiry via this website.

What skills do I need?

Skills will differ depending on what volunteering role you do at the museum.

Anyone 16 years and older can apply to become a volunteer. Due to the supervision legally required to comply with Health & Safety and Safeguarding requirements for people under school leaving age, we are not able to offer routine volunteering roles to younger people, except for formal work experience placements or specifically organised events.

We aim to be as inclusive as possible and support all our volunteers appropriately.