Volunteer with us in 2025

Are you tech savvy, a marketing whizz, do you love social media? If so it would be great if you could help us!

Interested? Click here to apply.

Help us create a warm and welcoming space for anyone and everyone to enjoy in our beautiful Arc building. Our cafe helps generate much needed income for our charitable aims and supports our wellbeing programmes. 

Main duties involve:

• Welcoming new visitors to the building with a smile

• Learning how to make speciality coffee on our professional coffee machine (full training provided)

• Taking orders, using the till and taking orders out to customers

• Keeping the cafe space clean and well presented for the general public

• Help serve food and drinks at various fun events throughout the year

• Work with a friendly and welcoming team, supporting each other and having fun

Are you looking to develop skills in hospitality in a supportive and welcoming environment? Or are you looking to be the first friendly face people see when they come into Arc? Either way you could be perfect for our cafe assistant role! We’re looking for volunteers to join the team on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. 

Interested? Fill in our application form here

Are you the next Gordon Ramsey? Want to sharpen up your skills in the kitchen? Come and help us serve fresh, homemade meals in our cafe and help raise funds for Arc!

Main duties include: 

• Learning how to batch cook Arc’s signature recipes
• Maintaining a high standard of cleanliness in the kitchen at all times
• Working with the Operations Manager on new menu items
• Assisting with unloading deliveries
• Following food hygiene rules and gaining a qualification in food hygiene
• Preparing and serving food on days Arc is open to the public

Arc is open to the public Thursday-Saturday. There is also the option to work in the kitchen on Wednesdays to help prepare food for the week. Full training is provided, an interest in food and cooking is preferred. 

Interested? Fill in our application form here

You enjoy arts and art making, and are a supportive, people-focused person who wants to help others create, connect and feel better. Weekly commitment for a minimum of 12 weeks. An enhanced DBS is required (paid for by Arc) plus a safeguarding and boundaries training session prior to start date. Role may involve: 

• Supporting artist facilitators on our wellbeing programmes; setting up and tidying the studio and supporting participants to engage, relax and have a go at the creative activities. 
• Designing and running creative activities in our cafe space 
• Hosting or assisting on corporate wellbeing away days on an ad-hoc basis
• Running creative wellbeing activities on stalls, at events or in the community

Interested? Fill in our application form here

Trustees are vital to the safe and successful running of a charity. Information about volunteering as a Trustee is on our Governance page. If you wish to apply for this role, please click here.

Are you a bit handy? Good with DIY projects? Maybe you have a van/large car that you’d be willing to use to help us deliver/collect things?

Maybe you don’t have the capacity to volunteer every week but still want to give back on a one-off/occasional basis?

We’re always on the lookout for people with the skills above so do get in touch if you’d be willing to help us out. 

Email our Operations Manager at admin@arc-centre.org, call us or pop in.

Are you an artist, crafter, designer or maker who creates and sells their own work? We have an exciting volunteering opportunity available on our weekly flagship Creative Enterprise programme here at Arc. You will be assisting in creating items for our shop and helping to support the charity!

You will sit in and assist on sessions, which run between 1pm and 3pm every Thursday in our studio, where participants create a variety of craft-based objects, jewellery, homeware and gifts to be donated for sale in our shop, as part of fundraising for Arc as a not-for-profit organisation.

The programme serves to encourage participants’ personal artistic development and arts practice; as well as providing packaging and design skills for those wanting to create and sell their own work.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, friendly, and people-focused person who has their own artistic practice, and who is willing to assist with the weekly running of our Creative Enterprise sessions.

Interested? Fill in our application form here

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Lydia on volunteering@arc-centre.org