Current opportunities
Weekend room guides
Volunteer room guides help visitors to enjoy and learn more about Basildon Park, playing a key role in making visits inspiring and engaging. Volunteer room guides also help by playing a part in safeguarding the house and its collection.
Opportunities are available for weekend and holiday cover between 10.30am and 5.00pm.
Raffle ticket seller
A great opportunity for people to help us out over the weekends by selling raffle tickets to our visitors. Training is essential for this role.
Car parker
Volunteer car parkers help create a warm and friendly welcome on arrival to Basildon Park. They will help with getting cars parked in an efficient and effective manner, and help out the Visitor Reception welcome team with any other appropriate tasks. We're looking for help especially during school holiday periods.
Weekend shop volunteer
Volunteering in the shop means creating a warm environment for visitors. Shop volunteers will assist in areas like the selling of shop products, including use of the till, keeping the shop tidy and clean, and helping with the deliveries of shop products.
Tea-room assistants
Volunteer tea-room assistants help us to keep our café and Tool Shed Tea-room as clean and warm places for our visitors to enjoy. They work as part of a team providing high quality food and drink in a safe, well run environment.
This role will suit you if you have an enthusiastic and friendly manner, and enjoy meeting people. It would also be great experience for anyone wanting to start a career in the catering industries.
Volunteer baking assistant
Volunteer baking assistants help us to make a selection of sweet treats for visitors in the Basildon Park café to enjoy. The role involves baking a selection of cakes and tray bakes for sale to our visitors, using National Trust cookbook recipes.
This role would be great for anyone who is a passionate and confident baker, as well as someone who is able to work on their own initiative
Ranger
This role would be great for anyone who has a passion for the outdoors, and would be more suitable for people able to walk long distances.
If you are interested in any of the roles above or volunteering in general, please apply online. For any more information please call 01491 672 382 or email us.