short term volunteering

You can download the current short term volunteering opportunities as a pdf file here, or read on below.

Volunteer Assistant Workshop Tutor

This opportunity will involve learning simple circus skills and helping teach them to young people. You will also assist with planning of workshop sessions with the core tutors, as well as assisting with maintenance and care of equipment. You may be required to prepare refreshments (juice and fruit) for session breaks if applicable. Currently, we require support on most afternoons for the after school period and Wednesday evenings. You will be working with young people of various ages from 7 to 18 - the actual age group will depend on the project. The Wednesday evening sessions are held in Rotherham. The other sessions are generally in Sheffield locations. (CRB required).

Volunteer Administration Assistant

This opportunity will be based in our office at The Magna Centre. This will provide plenty of variety to any volunteer! We are looking for someone to help answer phones and to take messages, to help with inputting data, to assist with funding applications - essential to the running of Swamp, to help collate data for monitoring purposes and to update records. Tasks will also probably involve some filing, photocopying, general housekeeping and office duties.

Volunteer Video Editor

We take a lot of footage of our projects and performers and we would like a volunteer who can edit the raw images (still and moving) into exciting, coherent short films which we can share with our participants, funders, potential funders and on our website. We have an excellent, powerful PC for this in our office at the Magna Centre which runs Adobe Premiere.

Volunteer Website Developer

We are looking for a volunteer with flair and knowledge of websites to help make ours exciting, fun and up to date. The team will supply content, but we'd like you to take the basic text and make it look good on the internet. A knowledge of Dreamweaver would be useful.

Volunteer Marketing Assistant

Swamp Circus provides entertainers to many companies and organisations throughout the UK and further afield. It brings in funds which helps support our community work, and we need a volunteer to help in publicising this aspect of our work. We need assistance in updating our client records, calling them to check their details are correct, preparing email shots, replying to queries (phone and email), writing copy, liaising with performers to check we have photos and details etc, preparing mailshots, and telephone follow up.

Volunteer Graphic Designer

Swamp Circus requires help making funky flyers, lovely leaflets and brilliant booklets! If you have desktop publishing or Photoshop experience and would like to have genuine projects to add to your portfolio, this is a great opportunity to show off your artistic flair!

Volunteer Development Worker

Swamp uses circus in many ways in the community - previous projects have included working with young homeless people, developing a show called "Wicked Waste" which toured schools, and combining circus skills with community leadership on a NOCN course. We have other ideas in the pipeline but if you have an idea of your own, we will help you work it through from the initial idea to a ready to roll project - or you can help us with one of ours. You never know, this could possibly lead to paid employment as a Community Project Manager if your idea takes off! (CRB may be required).

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If you would like to find more information on our internship programme, which is a longer term full time volunteering commitment, please click here.

If you are interested in any of the opportunities, please get in touch with the Volunteer Co-Ordinator, Nic on 01709 828477 or nic@swamptrust.org.uk

Swamp Circus is fully committed to Equal Opportunities.