Poole Museum Volunteer Hub

Visitor Welcome & Gallery Volunteers - will engage with visitors to Poole Museum, helping and inspiring visitors to interpret the contents of the various galleries and buildings in the museums estate and to connect with the heritage and culture of Poole.  

Learning & Engagement Volunteer - your role will be to inspire others, and particularly the next generation, through supporting the delivery of a programme of school, family and other group activities and workshops.  

Exhibition Steward – to be present within the permanent and/or temporary galleries, to enhance all aspects of the visitor experience, interacting with people about the exhibitions and enabling visitors to feel comfortable and welcome, providing guidance and support when needed.  

Collections Volunteer - As a Collections Volunteer you will be working with the team to document and care for the museums unique and diverse collection. The museum looks after a collection of many thousands of objects and your role will include working with these collections as instructed, as well any the ongoing tasks relating to preparation of exhibitions etc.  You will be trained in the cleaning, maintenance and take care of the public areas of the museum where specialised cleaning and maintenance is required.  

Oral History Volunteer.  Become a member of a structured group of volunteers who are trained in the technics of recording oral histories and the transcriptions of those recordings.  These stories will become a record of life in Poole, its industries and the near surrounding area.  Recordings will be lodged at Poole Museum and the Dorset History Centre for use by researchers and the public.  In our new Museum, there will be an area where visitors can listen and explore oral history recordings.  

Gardener & Maintenance Volunteer at Scaplen’s Court Garden.   Are you a gardening enthusiast with a love for outdoor maintenance? Join us as a Volunteer Gardener and Outdoor Maintenance Specialist! As a valued member of our team, you will play a crucial role in preserving and enhancing the museum's unique garden, creating a warm and aesthetically pleasing atmosphere for our visitors.  

Admin Support & Micro Volunteering - you are not keen on a front facing role, then we will be able to offer you admin support roles which will include data entry, survey and evaluation data collections and other ad hoc roles.  We may also be able to offer short micro volunteering opportunities which may be done from home, from time to time.

Coffee breaks will take place each month. Please see the schedule to sign up for the next one and note that they vary in day and time.

As the museum is now in the care of the contractors, we are unable to meet in the museum.

Location:  We shall therefore meet at Lush HQ, 1st floor Dolphin Quays. I have put some photographs below to indicate which of the rooms we shall be using. Access is most direct via the stairs leading to Rancho Steak House and we will be in the office area next to this restaurant.

      We will be in a room here.        

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Are accessible facilities available?  

Walk 

This is approximately a 12 - 15-minute walk from both Poole Railway Station and Poole Bus Station. 

Bus 

More Bus Services 

Route One bus service from the bus station stops outside the Quay Hotel and the café is a couple of minutes walk.

For further information please check their website More Bus Services 

Car 

Nearest public car parks are Quay Visitors car park, Old Orchard, Poole BH15 1SB and New Orchard car park, Hill St, Poole BH15 1NR.