Working in the 3rd Sector & the importance of volunteering

Do you share a passion for improving society? Have you considered a career within the 3rd Sector?

If you are interested in finding out more about the 3rd Sector and the importance of volunteering, then this session may be for you! 

Join Living Well UK for this 3-day virtual work experience where you will get to meet a variety of staff and hear their stories on why they started working for the 3rd Sector and how they have developed their careers.

Over the 3 days you will: 

• Meet a range of professionals working in the 3rd Sector

• Hear about the different work our departments do 

• Take part in interactive activities 

• Learn what key skills are needed in the workplace 

• Create a campaign and present this to staff

• Learn about the importance of volunteering

• Learn about volunteering opportunities that are available

There will be lots of opportunities to ask questions and find out more information about working within a charity.

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Discover! Why the future of the heritage and arts sector needs young people like you. – National Museums Liverpool

Industry: Arts

Target Area for Student Applications: UK wide

Date: 17/11/2023

Time: 01:00 pm – 02:00 pm

Ages: All 11 – 19

Application Closing Date: 08/11/2023

Opportunity ID: PL-5268

Welcoming. Honest. Educational.

Join staff from National Museums Liverpool to find out why the future of the heritage and arts sector needs young people like you.

We will myth bust the ‘must haves’ of making your way in the museum world and prove that the segway into the industry and the skills needed, are as diverse as the departments who look after our objects and open our doors to the public.  There are many job roles in museums that can give a challenging and rewarding career path.

Although this interactive workshop proudly showcases the Liverpool City region as the place to kickstart your creative career, the message of this virtual conversation is relevant to every young person – that museum values should reflect our employees qualities.

Trustworthy. Respectful. Inclusive.

We will be able to answer your questions as part of this workshop too, so please do come along with any you may have about working in museums.

Discover! Careers in archives: looking after and sharing stories from the past and present – The National Archives CLICK HERE

Industry: Arts

Target Area for Student Applications: UK wide

Date: 15/11/2023

Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Ages: 14-19

Application Closing Date: 08/11/2023

Opportunity ID: PL-5685

This workshop is the perfect way to help your students understand what archives are and how there are a variety of rewarding careers linked to them.

Archives hold unique and irreplaceable records from our history, documenting decisions made, feelings experienced, and achievements reached. Just like how people keep important photos and documents at home, lots of organisations have an archive – businesses, local authorities, charities, historic houses and religious organisations all use archives to keep a record of their history. Even the government has one – The National Archives. Archives can connect us to our pasts, our local area and our community. Archives hold photos, diaries, maps, contracts, architectural plans, illustrations and more. The most amazing thing about archives is that you don’t have to see everything behind a sheet of glass in an archive – you can hold the records in your own hands!

In this workshop, your students will hear from and can ask questions to a range of people who work at The National Archives. Our cataloguers help organise our records and make them findable to the public. Our records specialists research the collections, help shape exhibitions and share stories from the archives. Our conservators use science to understand what our records are made of, develop ways to keep them safe, and repair them when they get damaged. And our web archivists capture records of what is on the internet, so that even digital information isn’t lost and generations in the future will know what life is like today

Note to students:

It is really important that your timetable isn't regularly affected by any work experience.

 If you would like to attend any sessions that do conflict with lessons and are a maximum of one day, a permission slip can be obtained through sian.roberts@blackpoolsixth.ac.uk which needs to be agreed upon firstly by your teachers and then head of department to be released from lesson.

Any longer term or block placements (placements that would require more than a day) should be arranged in holidays and/or weekends so as to reduce the disruption this causes to learning.