Volunteer Tack Shop Sales Assistant

Would you like to help the HorseWorld fundraising team? Are you friendly and outgoing with lots of enthusiasm and initiative? Then we’d love to hear from you!

The HorseWorld tack shop, located at the visitor centre, is looking for volunteer sales assistants. The shop sells a wide variety of second hand tack, including saddles, bridles and rugs.

Many of the items have been donated to our charity, or are not suitable for our own horses. The shop is proving popular with customers looking for a bargain and we now need your help!

You will assist shop staff with general duties such as greeting customers, answering queries, taking payments and writing receipts. Knowledge of horse tack is a bonus, but not essential to the role, as advice on purchases is provided by shop staff. Likewise, retail experience is a bonus, but more important is a polite and friendly manner and initiative.

The shop is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10.00am – 2.00pm. If you can help on one of these days, please get in touch with the HorseWorld Volunteer Co-ordinator, asap.


Closing date for applications: 08/02/2011

Volunteer Ranger

Are you looking for a voluntary role which will make a big difference to HorseWorld whilst also helping our visitor’s to enjoy their time here? If you are friendly and outgoing and enjoy meeting people, this could be for you!

This brand new, high profile, ‘customer services’ role won’t see you stuck behind a counter, but getting out and about on our Visitor Centre yard, engaging with our visitors! You’ll initiate conversation with individuals and families, find out the reason for their visit and talk to them about our welfare work. You might chat about our horses and their individual welfare stories, encourage visitors to sign up for the HorseWorld newsletter or tell them about our welfare tours. Your aim will be to encourage a greater level of support for HorseWorld and interest in our work.

You’ll need to be confident in speaking to the public on a one-to-one basis, particularly in initiating conversation. This is not a hard-sell role! However, you will need to be naturally chatty and enthusiastic about our work and able to commit a few of our ‘stories’ to memory.

We’ll give you loads of support from our Fundraising Team, briefing you fully and accompanying you around the Visitor Centre the first time you do this. We’ll also make sure you’ve been on a tour around our equine welfare yard and are familiar with some of the horses’ stories beforehand. Fundraising staff will also be on hand to pop down and help you out if visitors have any questions you’re not able to answer yourself.

If you’re looking to gain valuable experience in a customer facing role, or are passionate about spreading our welfare message, please get in touch! This role is available in school holidays and at weekends, between approximately 11.00am – 2.30pm



Closing date for applications: 12/08/2010

Volunteer Cafe Assistants

If you’re available between 11.30am - 2.30pm at weekends or in school holidays, why not lend a hand at the Visitor Centre’s ‘Stable Door’ Café? You’ll help serve food and drinks to our customers and assist staff with other general duties. No experience required, our friendly staff will show you what to do. Just bring along a friendly smile and co-operative manner and we’ll show you the rest!

Monday 15th to Friday 19th February (school half term)

Friday 2nd - Sunday 18th April (school Easter holidays)

Saturday 29th May to Sunday 9th June (school half term)

Closing date for applications: 31/12/2010

Animal Encounter Volunteers

Do you have experience in handling horses, or small mammals? If you also have patience with small children and a friendly manner, you could help run our Touch and Groom and Animal Encounter sessions at the Visitor Centre. You will supervise the interactive feeding and grooming sessions with the horses and help children to meet some of our other resident animals such as rabbits, ferrets and goats. Sessions run every day the Visitor Centre is open, between 10.00am -3.30pm. Volunteers in these roles usually make a regular commitment of one day a week or a fortnight.

These roles are subject to a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.



Closing date for applications: 31/12/2010

Volunteer Stable Assistant

Do you have experience of handling horses or small animals such as goats and pigs? Are you physically fit and looking for an outdoor voluntary role? This opportunity could be for you! HorseWorld is looking for volunteers to assist with essential behind-the-scenes tasks in and around the stables, yard and fields of its Visitor Centre. You will either be confident in bringing in and turning out horses or in handling small animals such as ferrets, goats and pigs. The role involves tasks such as cleaning out animal areas, mucking out stables, skipping out fields, cleaning tack and feeding animals. All tasks are carried out to very high standards to keep the whole area pristine for visitors, so you’ll need to take pride in a job well done! Hours and days are flexible but ideally these tasks would take place between 8.00am – 10.00am before the public arrive or 3.00 – 5.00pm after they’ve left. Additional yard or stable tasks can be undertaken at other times too if you can spare the time!


Closing date for applications: 31/12/2010

Volunteer Membership Recruitment Assistants

Do you have good communication skills and a friendly manner? Would you like to put these abilities to use by helping HorseWorld raise funds? The Visitor Centre is currently looking for Volunteer Membership Recruitment Assistants to help explain to visitors the benefits of buying a HorseWorld season ticket and becoming a member. You will be responsible to Admissions Desk staff and be happy to approach visitors to tell them about the advantages of the schemes. ‘People’ skills, customer service or sales experience an advantage! Full information and training provided. Volunteers required during weekends, half term and school holidays. Flexible hours. Please get in touch for further info.




Closing date for applications: 31/12/2010

Fundraising & Events Volunteer

Fundraising provides a host of varied and creative opportunities to get involved and make a difference.

We have a calendar of events and activities which simply would not be possible without a dedicated team of volunteers. These include craft fayres, Open Days, Horse Shows, Theatre in the Park and external events like the Bath & West Show.

Tasks can range from running a stall to marshalling traffic, selling tickets or dressing up as Horace the HorseWorld mascot.

We also need help with office-based event preparation, flyer and poster distribution and envelope stuffing.

Closing date for applications: 31/12/2010