Museum assistant volunteer roles
Time Commitment:
- Four Board meetings per year (two in person, two remote).
- Additional flexible, primarily remote support to trustees and museum staff.
Term: Up to four years.
Help Shape the Future of a Nationally Significant Regimental Museum
HorsePower, The Museum of The King’s Royal Hussars, is entering a pivotal and exciting new chapter. With a bold five-year strategy underway, the Museum is reimagining how over 300 years of regimental history is interpreted and shared, creating a “Museum of the Future” that is engaging, relevant and accessible to new and diverse audiences.
To support this transformation, we are seeking a Brand and Communications Trustee with the vision, experience and creativity to help elevate the Museum’s profile, sharpen its voice and strengthen its impact.
This is a high-impact voluntary role at board level, offering the opportunity to make a lasting contribution to a distinctive heritage organisation at a moment of real change.
About HorsePower
Located at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester, HorsePower tells the story of The King’s Royal Hussars from 1715 to the present day, spanning India, Waterloo, the World Wars and modern conflict. The Museum cares for a rich and nationally important collection, including unique archives, uniforms, medals and personal stories.
As part of its new strategic plan, the Museum is focused on increasing relevance, reach and resilience, broadening audiences, strengthening income streams and establishing itself as one of the most vibrant and accessible small military museums in the South of England.
The Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees are the custodians of the Regiment’s heritage and the long-term stewards of the Museum. All trustees serve in a voluntary capacity and bring a wide range of senior-level experience, including strategic leadership, operations, finance, HR, legal, commercial and military expertise.
As the Museum moves into its next phase, the Board recognises that strategic brand and communications leadership is essential to delivering its ambitions, and this is where you come in.
The Role
This is a newly created role with real scope to influence both strategy and delivery. Working closely with the Chair, the Strategy Working Group and the Assistant Curator (Marketing and Communications), you will help shape how the Museum presents itself to the world. Key areas of focus include:
- Developing clear and inspiring brand guidelines that bring coherence and confidence to the Museum’s identity, rooted in its values and regimental heritage
- Identifying and articulating the Museum’s unique differentiators, ensuring it stands out in a competitive cultural and heritage landscape
- Leading the development of a Strategic Communications Plan, with a compelling narrative that supports audience growth, partnerships and fundraising
- Supporting the creation and delivery of a Marketing and Communications Plan to raise profile, increase footfall and broaden engagement
- Acting as a trusted advisor to trustees and staff on communications, messaging and brand-related decision-making
This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys building something of lasting value and making a tangible difference in a small, ambitious organisation.
About You
Essential:
- Proven experience in branding, marketing or communications at a strategic level.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft clear. persuasive narratives
- Confidence working collaboratively with trustees, senior stakeholders and professional staff.
Desirable:
- Experience in museums, heritage, culture or the not-for-profit sector.
- An interest in military history or storytelling.
- A creative, entrepreneurial mindset, particularly in relation to audience development and income generation.
We welcome applications from candidates who may not meet every criteria but can demonstrate relevant transferable skills gained through professional or life experience.
Why Join Us?
- A rare opportunity to help shape a museum redevelopment from the ground up.
- A meaningful trustee role where your expertise will have visible, lasting impact.
- The chance to work with a committed Board and passionate staff team.
- The satisfaction of contributing your skills to a nationally significant heritage cause.
Closing date: 25 March 2026
Interviews: Late March/early April 2026
HorsePower is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.
Please submit:
• A short covering letter explaining your interest and suitability
• A CV (maximum two pages)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
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Volunteer Admissions Assistant
You'll be multitasking throughout the day, with a mix of responsibilities including customer service, ticket sales, promoting Gift Aid donations, shop duties, guiding visitors and providing information about the Museum and the collection. If you enjoy a fast-paced environment and love engaging with people, this is the role for you.
The Volunteer Admissions Assistant role is all about making a lasting impression and creating a memorable visitor experience. You’ll be:
- Welcoming and engaging with visitors, sharing information about the museum and its collection.
- Selling tickets and gift shop items, ensuring smooth transactions and great customer service.
- Collecting data for Gift Aid and marketing purposes, including how visitors found out about us.
- Creating positive experiences to encourage return visits and word-of-mouth recommendations.
- Helping visitors explore the Museum through interpretation, answering questions and distributing trails, accessibility and family activities.
- Maintaining the gift shop, including restocking, counting stock, and setting up attractive displays.
- Conducting online research and building contact lists to support marketing efforts.
- Promoting the Museum locally, raising awareness and encouraging more visitors to discover what we have to offer!
Who we’re looking for:
We’d like to extend an invitation to anyone, particularly members of the local community. Full training will be provided, we are looking for anyone with:
- Great customer service skills – you will be friendly and confident about approaching visitors of all ages and backgrounds
- Great communication skills – you will be able to clearly explain information about the Museum and ticketing to visitors
- Good computer skills – with training, you will be able to use our ticketing system, email and Microsoft Office
- Good Sales Skills – you will be able to promote ticket sales and gift shop items as well as encouraging Gift Aid donations
- Multitasking skills – with various responsibilities such as selling tickets, guiding visitors, and managing the gift shop, you will be able to juggle tasks efficiently
- A good telephone manner
- Good team working skills
This role offers plenty of variety, and you'll play an important part in making every visitor's experience unforgettable.
Training and support:
All volunteers will first be invited for a training shift. We have an induction and training process, during which we give volunteers the information they need to enjoy their time with us. Training is mainly 'on the job', supported by an experienced volunteer as well as the manager on duty. Volunteers are given regular feedback and we remain open to suggestions on how we can improve the volunteer experience. The Admissions Assistant receives continued training and development throughout their time with us.
Availability:
We are looking for volunteers who would ideally like to donate 2-4 shifts per month, weekdays or weekends, either as a 10-1.30pm shift, or a 1.30-5pm shift, for a minimum of 3 months. Ideally, you will be able to start immediately, although this is not essential. Travel expenses up to £5 will be paid, with up to an additional £5 for lunch expenses if you are on a full day shift.
Please note: Applicants from some overseas countries are required to have a relevant work permit or student visa to volunteer in the U.K. We’ll need to see this for our records before volunteering can commence.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
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By providing an excellent visitor experience as a member of the Living History team, you will be bringing wetlands throughout history, and the history of the mere to life by delivering key messages about how important wetlands are for food, materials, medicine and livelihoods. This encourages our visitors to make the most of their visit to Martin Mere, and to understand and support our work to save wetlands for wildlife and people.
This role involves:
- Undertaking talks and hands-on activities in our Mere Tun Village about how useful wetlands are. Specifically about villagers settling next to wetlands 1000 years ago to provide them with food, materials for shelter, medicine and items to trade.
- Undertaking talks in our Mere Tun Village about the history of the mere and development of Martin Mere
- Assisting with activities when Mere Tun Village is open as a working village to our visitors in school holidays and weekends.
- Communicating WWT conservation messages and membership during talks about how people in places such as Madagascar still make settlements next to wetlands for their livelihoods.
Volunteers are an essential part of the WWT team. You'll get a warm welcome, including information on training, equipment and anything else you need.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
Restore Wetlands and Unlock their Power
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Open Country is a Charity that helps people with disabilities to access and enjoy the countryside. We are always looking for volunteers to support our conservation and gardening groups, walking group and our weekend outings.
- Conservation group meet on a Tuesday and is made up of adults with learning disabilities who carry out practical conservation tasks each week at various locations. We work with organisations like Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and RSPB. Tasks can include meadow creation, tree planting, pond maintenance and invasive species removal to name but a few.
- Walking group meet on a Thursday and is made up of adults with learning disabilities or sensory impairments. We walk between 5-7miles each week at different locations around Yorkshire and normally finish the walk with a pub or cafe stop.
- Gardening and arts group meet on a Friday, and is made up of adults with learning disabilities, where we learn about gardening and various natural craft like willow weaving. We also regulary work with organisations like the National Trust and the National Coal Mining Museum.
We also run weekend outings for people with all kinds of disabilities providing experiences and a chance to socialise and explore new places. Our activities range from a gentle amble round a country house and gardens, wildlife watching at a nature reserve to axe throwing and abseiling.
As a volunteer you would be helping our members stick together as a group, or carry out the conservation tasks, making sure they are happy and safe.
No experience is required, just a willingness to get stuck in! We will provide all relevant training for the role.
We meet at Thornes Park Nursery, Wakefield at 10am and head out in our accessible minibus to site.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
Open Country exists to help people with disabilities to access and enjoy the countryside.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.