Volunteer Role Descriptions

Office Administration Support

When:

Monday – Friday, mornings or afternoon

Duties:

General office duties including filing & photocopying; finance, marketing & events spreadsheets; preparing & posting mail shots (e.g leaflets); answering the telephone, assisting fair organisers.

Desirable Skills:

Good computer skills and the ability to work in a busy environment.

Due to limited desk and computer space the office can normally only accommodate one office volunteer at a time, so generally volunteers work for either an afternoon or a morning.

Event & Exhibition Preparation

When:

Monday – Friday, occasionally weekends; mornings or afternoon.

Duties:

Assisting Technical & Operations Manager and/or fair organisers and/or Gallery Curator setting up events and exhibitions. This can include setting out chairs & tables for a concert; greeting artists or exhibitors; helping to hang or label artwork for display.

Desirable Skills:

A degree of physical fitness and the ability to lift chairs etc. An eye for detail.

Although the Centre has something going on virtually every day and evening, seven days a week, not all these activities are organised by LAC, therefore volunteers may only be required once or twice a month for this role.

Event & Exhibition Stewarding

When:

Monday – Sunday, occasionally daytime, but more normally evenings.

Duties:

Assisting Front of House & House Manager during events and exhibitions. Specifically this can include: meeting & greeting audience/visitors & ensuring that they have an enjoyable visit; tearing tickets; taking money; showing audience members to their seats; carrying out marketing; selling merchandise; manning fire exits & assisting the evacuation of the building in an emergency.

Desirable Skills:

Pleasant, helpful manner; able to stand for periods of time.

Stewarding at events is an important task as it helps us ensure all our visitors have a good experience and also helps us fulfill our legal obligations under the terms of our premises license. For example, at every concert we are required to have stewards positioned at each Fire Exit throughout the performance.

The number of events varies, but is usually around four per month, with exhibitions and fairs usually running over a whole weekend.

Café & Bar

When:

Café: Saturday & Sunday morning or afternoon, 2 - 3 hour shifts. Bar: Monday – Sunday evenings, 3 – 4 hour shifts.

Duties:

Assisting the Café Coordinator & House Manager provide a café and bar service during fairs, events and exhibitions. Specifically this includes: taking money; serving food and drink; clearing tables; keeping café/bar area clean and tidy.

Desirable Skills:

Pleasant, helpful manner; able to stand for periods of time.

The café & bar is an important feature of many of the events held at the Centre. The café is normally open for fairs and the bar during evening concerts and events.

The Café is run by the Café Coordinator who is on site most of the time that the Café is open. The Café serves a small, wholesome menu of hot & cold drinks, soup, bagels, sandwiches and cakes. Volunteers are not required to undertake food preparation. Full training, including basic food hygiene procedures, will be given and aprons are provided. Normally café volunteers work in 2 hour shifts, but if you wished to stay for longer that would be very welcome.

The Bar is normally entirely run by volunteers under the direction of the House Manager.

Garden/Grounds Maintenance

When:

Monday – Friday, mornings or afternoon

Duties:

Keeping areas around the LAC clear of litter & weeds; cutting back hedges & shrubs when required; cutting grass; keeping notice boards clean etc.

Desirable Skills:

An interest in gardening & being outdoors.

Most of the grounds around the LAC are the responsibility of the housing association, with whom we share the site. However, we are responsible for a large area known as ‘The Wilderness’ which fronts the Kingston and Ferry roads and also for the shrub beds immediately against the building. Volunteering in the grounds requires a regular, but not weekly, attendance. Some tools are provided, such as Flymo, fork and spade, and we have a policy of recycling litter and composting horticultural waste wherever possible.