Give a Day

Through inventions, engineering, archaeology, and creativity, families who attend our ‘Lightbulb Summer: Redbrick Builders Club’ will explore extraordinary objects and stories from the ‘Lightbulb moments’ museum displays before bringing their own ideas to life through LEGO.

As a VG&M volunteer, you would support the Learning Team by taking part in our four LEGO  building activities during the summer holidays.

What's involved?

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Learning Team with preparing the LEGO and making some examples prior to the sessions.
• Encourage visitors to explore themes and objects from the Lightbulb Moments exhibition.
• Help to support children and families with LEGO building challenges and creative activities with the Learning Team.
• Help explain activity instructions and encourage participation.
• Assist with setting up and tidying away LEGO materials and activity spaces.

Skills and Qualities

• Friendly, approachable, and enthusiastic.
• Enjoys working with children, families, and diverse audiences.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Creative and encouraging, with an interest in learning through play.
• Reliable and able to work as part of a team.

Time Commitment

• Dates - There will be 4 sessions during the summer holidays on Wednesdays – 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th August
• Times – Each shift is four hours, 11am-2pm (with half an hour set up and half an hour pack away time included).
  Sessions are open to the public from 11:30-1:30pm

Why get involved?

• Experience supporting family learning and public engagement activities.
• Opportunities to develop communication, facilitation, and customer service skills.
• Experience working within a museum environment.
• Meet new people and contribute to memorable visitor experiences.
• Volunteer references available upon request.

How to get involved?

• Sign up to this challenge.
• Please send a LEGO design idea for one of the topics below to kimfish@liverpool.ac.uk
  This can be a LEGO build, a drawing or a description of what you would make and why.
  Please also let us know which dates you are available during the summer (Wednesday 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th August, 11am-2pm)
  There will be four themes during the summer that link to our Lightbulb moments exhibition:
  Ancient Worlds, Archaeology & Discovery
  Food, Sustainability & Invention
  Transport, Travel & Future Worlds
  Master Builders & Architecture
• You will be notified via email if you have been selected for this volunteering role.