Volunteer Opportunities

Explore our volunteering opportunities across Hampshire using the filters below. To make an application, please select the 'Apply to Team' button.

Hampshire Cultural Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable groups. If applicable to their volunteering opportunities, volunteers must be willing to undertake Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) checks appropriate to their role or additional checks such as references. You will be notified of this requirement at your initial catch-up.

Regular Volunteering

Aldershot Military Museum - Aldershot

Aldershot Military Museum

Housed in the only surviving brick-built barrack blocks left in Aldershot, the museum tells the story of daily life for both soldier and civilian. The story of Aldershot Military Town and the towns of Aldershot, Farnborough and Cove is told using our vibrant collections within the fascinating, original buildings. Explore the site, admire the tanks, take on the assault course and join in with the hands-on activities. Throughout the year, we also run a programme of fun, family-friendly exhibitions and events.

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Regular Volunteering

Andover Museum & Museum of the Iron Age - Andover

Andover Museum

Andover Museum, telling the story of the town and surrounding area, opened in 1981, and it was joined in 1986 in the same building by the Museum of the Iron Age, which tells the story of nearby Danebury hillfort.

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Corporate Volunteering, Regular Volunteering

Basing House - Basingstoke

Basing House

Basing House, the nationally important ruins and grounds of the largest private house in Tudor England, which suffered at the hands of Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War.

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Ad-Hoc Volunteering, D of E Volunteering, Regular Volunteering, Work Experience

Central Functions - Winchester / Remote

Unfortunately not currently taking applications.

Interested in using your skills or gaining experience in our central functions. Chilcomb House is home to our: Facilities, Marketing, Finance, Fundraising and People teams. You could be supporting on a specific project or helping out in any aspect of our work. Remote opportunities may be available.

Regular Volunteering, Work Experience

City Museum - Winchester

City Museum, Winchester

Located in the heart of the historic city of Winchester, City Museum tells the story of England’s ancient capital, the seat of Alfred the Great.

From its origins as an Iron Age trading centre to Anglo‑Saxon glory, the last journey of Jane Austen to the hunt for King Alfred’s remains, explore the sights and sounds of Winchester past and present in the museum’s three galleries.

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Regular Volunteering

Collections Team - Winchester / Remote

Hampshire Cultural Trust cares for over 2.5 million historic objects, from working steam engines to fragile ancient artefacts. Our collections tell the stories of the people who lived in Hampshire thousands of years ago right up to the present day. We welcome researchers to work with our collections, helping us reveal new insights and to support interesting and fascinating exhibitions in our venues for everyone to enjoy. If you feel you can assist us in our research, administration and how we work with the public, we have several roles at our HQ in Winchester and across the region.

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Ad-Hoc Volunteering, Regular Volunteering

Community Impact Programmes - Various Locations

Hampshire Cultural Trust’s ambition is to place culture at the heart of social and economic change in Hampshire with the strategic goal of improving wellbeing, health and happiness through cultural experiences. You could be part of the vital team supporting these programmes through supporting delivery or behind-the-scenes.

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Regular Volunteering

Curtis and Allen Gallery - Alton

Curtis Museum, Allen Gallery

Alton’s Allen Gallery is an intimate setting for one of the nation’s most outstanding collections of ceramics or help tell the local history of Alton and the local area in the Curtis Museum.

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Corporate Volunteering, D of E Volunteering, Regular Volunteering

Data Hunters and Story Gatherers (Collections) - Winchester / Remote

Data Hunters and Story Gatherers: towards community curatorship is a unique project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Hunters and Gatherers is working with a new team of young volunteers to improve collections auditing and research, research significant, untold stories and develop community co-curation and engagement in new and exciting ways. The project is split between Data Hunters, who are hunting for objects in our collections related to both immigration and Basingstoke, and Story Gatherers, who are researching the social history objects in our collections.

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Regular Volunteering

Forest Arts Centre - New Milton

Forest Arts Centre

Forest Arts has been the creative heart of New Milton for nearly 50 years. Our programme of entertainment includes some of the most exciting touring musicians, stand-up comedy, fortnightly film screenings, talks and community events. Our Green Room café/bar is also a gallery and our annual open exhibition is a place where artists we’ve nurtured in our classes and workshops can display their work too.

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Regular Volunteering

Gosport Museum and Art Gallery (GMAG) - Gosport

Gosport Museum and Art Gallery

Alongside exhibitions that showcase the very best of local and national art, we run a programme of talks, workshops, events and hands-on activities. Gosport Museum showcases the town's rich heritage, while the café offers a selection of locally-sourced food, drinks and light refreshments. We also run well-established and unique curriculum-linked science and history sessions for schools on site.

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D of E Volunteering, Regular Volunteering

Hampshire Wardrobe - Winchester

Hampshire Wardrobe

Unfortunately not currently taking applications.
Established in 1978 with a collection of costumes from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, Hampshire Wardrobe now has over 10,000 items in our Winchester store. From ancient times to the 1980s this is sure to be a unique volunteering location.

Concerned about a regular commitment but love the sound of volunteering?

Want to get involved but worried about a regular commitment? Why not check out our volunteer pool where you can dip in and out of opportunities from across the trust. Volunteer pool roles are designed to fit around you, allowing you to volunteer without the need to commit every week.

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