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We are looking for enthusiastic and creative volunteers to help with our fundraising activities! What is involved? We are looking for innovative ways to raise money to keep our doors open and help the Museum reach its potential. As a fundraising volunteer, you would be a vital part of this process and key to keeping the Museum at its best for visitors and the Wycombe community. Some things you might be doing… - Finding and researching new ways for the Museum to raise money - Helping create awareness of the Museum and our friends membership - Helping plan fundraising events - Helping to prepare funding bids - Arranging street collections - Building relationships with local businesses - Assisting with fundraising projects

• CategoryCommunity project/external

Sorting food donations at the warehouse

• CategoryCommunity project/external

Answering the phone to those in danger of losing their homes, or those in need of emergency, temporary accommodation, keeping those on the phone calm in a stressful situation and record accurate contact details so the housing team can get in contact with the callers.

• CategoryCommunity project/external

Wycombe museum has beautiful grounds that needs lots of maintenance. Wycombe museum are looking for enthusiastic volunteers on Friday morning or Wednesday afternoon. The role will include working outside and manual labor. Duties include weeding, planting, mowing the lawn, sweeping and other garden maintenance.

• CategoryEnvironment, Community project/external

In the past few years the museum has increased the amount of events being ran, this means we now have a need for people to run these events. This role is the most varied volunteer position as events include dressing rooms, working in the bar, working with children, manning bounce houses. Applicants are asked to consider that this role will include long periods of time on their feet and potentially moving furniture so a good level of fitness is required.

• CategoryCommunity project/external

Wycombe Museum is hoping to run a "community gardening project". This project will include working with young adults with learning difficult, teaching them life skills and communication with a focus of gardening. This role will include working with the students, working outside in all weather conditions, planting, weeding, watering and other creative projects. This role could be frustrating as the students are often quiet and withdrawn for the first few week but it can be very rewarding upon completion to see how the students grow with their work.

A marketing volunteer will be asked to help maintain the museum social media pages, update the museums website, help design our events guide and potentially distribute the events guide to local librarians, community centers and schools.

The museum director is looking for a vibrant and enthusiastic person to help maintain her administrations; this will include analyzing data, creating and maintain spreadsheets, assisting in research, taking phone calls, writing emails and letters and generally assisting her work. There may be some travelling with the museum director to meeting or conferences but this would be confirmed with the applicant at least 7 days in advance.

This position is ideal for those who want to volunteer on an as and when basis and will see you traveling to various events with the pop-up museum. This position will be the face of the National Paralympic Heritage Trust at both local and national events. You will receive training on the handling collection to share with the public and champion the work of the Trust helping people to discover more about the evolution of Paralympics and disability sport.

This role will support the Digital Content Manager to bring Paralympic stories to the virtual world through our website. It will involve cataloging information and research using online resources. We are currently researching the Paralympic Games section of the website.