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Bloomsbury Festival
Come and join the Bloomsbury Festival team as a volunteer and be part of a global festival here on your doorstep. Bloomsbury Festival is a festival of arts, culture, science, literature and fun that explodes onto the streets of Bloomsbury over 10 days in October. You will have the opportunity to work with leading artists and world class institutions of London to produce one of the most…
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Bloomsbury Festival are offering 3 radio training roles for volunteers interested in radio production. You will be working with Bloomsbury Institute's Bloomsbury Radio to cover the Bloomsbury Festival in October 2024. This is an unique opportunity to acquire radio production skills, interviewing skills and to work alongside radio and broadcasting professionals. 

Each Radio Volunteer will receive training from radio and broadcast professionals at the Bloomsbury Institute. The bespoke training sessions offered to you will cover radio recording, interviewing and broadcasting. The training can be offered to work around your timetable and can be one-to-one if necessary.

Bloomsbury Festival is an annual arts, culture and science festival that takes place throughout the Bloomsbury area in London. This year it will be taking place from Friday 18th - Sunday 27th October. 

The volunteer roles are designed for anyone aged 18+ who either lives or studies in the Bloomsbury area. This opportunity is open to students and others from all backgrounds and interests. You don't need any prior experience or training but you will need to be able to commit time and effort to this opportunity. 

Those selected will receive training from Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio to help with the radio station and have a go at radio coverage of an annual arts, culture and science charity festival. 

This is a brilliant opportunity for anyone interested in the arts and culture industry, in media and communications, or in general radio production and broadcasting.

Duties

Recruited through the Festival, volunteers are given a chance to receive training from Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio to learn about working at a radio station, how to host interviews, and conduct live broadcasts from events.

You will be assisting at their radio station but also help to create content to be broadcast on the channel. 

The aim of the training offered to Radio Station Volunteers is that they help to cover the Bloomsbury Festival period for Bloomsbury Radio. This can include helping at the studio, taking the lead on interviewing artists and event partners, and even doing some live broadcasting from events.

This is a flexible opportunity and one that can be discussed with the professional/supervisors at Bloomsbury Radio.

Who will the volunteers be working with?
You will be working with professional radio and broadcasting professionals, which gives you a unique opportunity to acquire radio production skills and interviewing skills.

Time commitment

Training can be arranged with your supervisors at Bloomsbury Institute to work with your timetable and can be done over Meetings/Zoom if needed. Training may also take place as a one-to-one session with your Bloomsbury Radio supervisors.

Overall time commitments are flexible and you will be able to discuss and negotiate your shifts/responsibilities with your supervisor.

Please know that while this is a flexible volunteering opportunity we do ask that you are committed to putting in the time and effort for any shifts agreed to.

You must have good availability the week before and the week of Bloomsbury Festival 2024 (Friday 18 - Sunday 27 October).
Application deadline

This organisation is one of our community partner organisations.

Like all volunteer recruiters we work with, they have signed up to our service standards, agreeing to abide by our policy on partnership working to keep you safe and supported whilst you volunteer.

You’ll never be out of pocket for volunteering through us – with in-London travel expenses to and from your volunteering guaranteed.

In addition, the team here at Students’ Union UCL Volunteering Service is here to support you throughout your volunteering journey – you can get in touch with us at any time.