Royal Air Force Museum
Archive, Library and Research Volunteer
If you are interested in history or gaining experience working in with archival and library collections services this might be the ideal role for you. For the role of an Archive, Library and Research volunteer you will assist in checking and recording details about collections items and ensuring accurate records of each of the collections systems.
Royal Air Force Museum
Collections Information Digitisation Volunteer
If you are looking at gaining experience working in records management and digitisation or have a passion for history then this is the role for you. As a Collections Information Digitisation Volunteer you will learn how to digitise documents and make them accessible. You will also ensure that the records are accurate according to the museums procedures. Overall, this role will help you to develop an understanding about digitisation as well as information security.
Royal Air Force Museum
Volunteer Photograph Cataloguer
The RAF Museum has acquired large collections of photographs showing aviation at the end of the 20th century. Help is needed with the digitization and cataloguing of the collections with the aim of getting them online. It is also hoped these images can be used in the new exhibition being prepared for the RAF Museum’s Midlands Development Programme and will add value to the project. The RAF Museum’s Midlands Development Programme MDP comprises a major regional engagement programme supported by a new collections hub, learning centre, contemporary exhibition and co-curated interpretive interventions across the site.
Princess Alice Hospice
Shop Volunteer in Hounslow
We are urgently looking for Shop Volunteers to help with serving customers, sorting and pricing goods, making displays, and other roles. Volunteers need to be able to assist with moving furniture.
Collections Information Digitisation Volunteer
If you are looking at gaining experience working in records management and digitisation or have a passion for history then this is the role for you. As a Collections Information Digitisation Volunteer you will learn how to digitise documents and make them accessible. You will also ensure that the records are accurate according to the museums procedures. Overall, this role will help you to develop an understanding about digitisation as well as information security.
About the Role
What is the role?The Collection and Research Team at RAF Museum London holds a significant amount of paper-based records relating to the Museum’s collections, ranging from provenance information, details of past conservation treatments, and historical correspondence. While securely stored, digitising these records will produce many benefits. These include making them more accessible for the Museum’s own team, enabling questions from our audiences to be more easily answered and helping to ensu...