Volunteering
Our volunteer programme enables a small team of volunteers to work on a specific project. Our volunteers meet on Wednesday afternoons from 1-4pm (with a break for tea/coffee and biscuits part way through).
Each volunteer project will relate to a larger, specific Theatre Collection project and be managed by the relevant member of staff who will work alongside the volunteer group in our small reading room.
Our current volunteer project involves the repackaging of photographic materials as part of the Firestarters project, which aims to catalogue and make accessible the archive of the arts organisation, Welfare State International (WSI). WSI evolved from radical travelling performers to become embedded community artists and celebrants, working to weave art more fully into the fabric of life. Producing exceptional work between 1968-2006, including site-specific theatre in landscape, lantern processions, spectacular fireshows and community carnivals, the WSI archive provides an unparalleled record of their pioneering participatory arts practice.
The volunteer projects run for a set period, after which we start a new project and advertise for a new team of volunteers. As we have a waiting list of interested people, and so that as many people as possible are able to have a volunteering experience with us, we will be sending out a call for interest at the start of each new project, so that people can get in touch if the particular project interests them and they feel that they have the right skills to participate. We will select a team of volunteers of a maximum of 5-6 people for each project in accordance with our Volunteer Policy 2024-2029 (PDF, 399kB).

