VOLUNTEERS

At The World of Glass, no two days are the same, and we strive to provide visitors with an excellent experience and our team of volunteers is vital in helping us to deliver this.

Benefits to volunteering at The World of Glass:

• Learn new skills
• Expect a welcoming environment
• Socialise with staff and other volunteers
• Play your part in helping a local charity organisation
• Reimbursed travel expenses up to £5 per day
• References provided for future volunteer or job applications.

If any of the following volunteer opportunities interest you contact  Volunteering@worldofglass.com for more details.

Gallery Volunteers

As a small team, we rely on volunteers to help us offer the best possible visitor experience to everyone who walks through our doors. As a gallery volunteer, your role will be to:

• Invigilate galleries during exhibitions such as the British Glass Biennale 2026
• Support visitors as they navigate the site
• Help visitors understand our exhibitions, collections, and spaces
• Provide short tours to visitors when requested
• Assist in gathering feedback and data from visitors which is vital in shaping and improving our future work.
• Assist with events throughout the year.

All training will be provided along with information about the galleries and exhibitions to ensure you are fully equipped to talk to visitors about the wonders of The World of Glass.

Visitor Engagement Volunteers

We are looking for volunteers to help deliver family activities, from crafts to object handling as well as assist with school visits.

Your help will ensure we give our younger visitors the best possible experience and encourage them to return time and time again. Interested? You should:

• Have experience working with children and families.
• Feel confident working independently as well as part of a team
• Be enthusiastic about arts, crafts, education, and heritage.

All training will be provided, and you will be given any information needed for the activities you work on.

Repair & Care Volunteers

Here at The World of Glass, there is always something that needs repairing, from our 25-year-old building needing a bit of TLC, to litter blowing around the site, or young visitors being a little too hands-on while enjoying our galleries. If you’re interested in helping us created lasting memories by maintaining our spaces, you should:

• Be a handy person who knows their way around a screwdriver.
• Be enthusiastic about our Mission to be an excellent visitor attraction in St Helens
• Be a friendly and approachable individual, happy to point out the toilets to a lost visitor, as much as you are repairing a broken interactive!

All Health & Safety training will be provided, and we have our own tools on site, so no need to bring your own toolkit!

Chatty Café Volunteers

The World of Glass has joined The Chatty Café scheme, which is an initiative to reduce loneliness by getting people chatting. We would love to offer a Chatty Café table in The Café here at the World of Glass and are looking for a few enthusiastic volunteers to help set up and host these sessions. Interested? You should:

• Enjoy meeting and speaking to new people.
• Have 1-2 hours a week to help promote and host the table.

To become a Chatty Café Volunteer, please contact Volunteering@Theworldofglass.com to speak to Katie – and also apply here Volunteer – Chatty Cafe Scheme UK

Work Experience

If you are a student interested in getting into creative careers such as arts and heritage, then The World of Glass might be the place for you.

We currently offer short work experience placements for high school students doing their work experience. Work experience usually lasts a week. If you are interested in doing your work experience with us, we encourage students to reach out to us themselves as this is an important part of learning about the world of work. Contact us via the email address below to enquire about work experience. Please be aware that we only take on a few work experience students per year, and can only take on 1 student in a single week, so act fast to avoid disappointment.

If you require a longer work placement for college or university, please contact us on the email address below with the requirements of your course and we will be happy to discuss your placement needs. Please be aware we can only take on 1 student at a time for these kinds of placements, and we get lots of requests so get in touch with us early to avoid disappointment.

Interested in Work Experience at The World of Glass? We only have a few opportunities a year for this so act quickly to avoid disappointment:

Email Katie on Volunteering@worldofglass.com for more information and for application forms.

The World of Glass is a charity (no 1006990) and we work really hard to provide a great service for the people of St Helens and the wider city region. We are unable to do this without the support of our customers and our volunteers. We thank all of our volunteers for their amazing work over the years. THANK YOU!