Volunteer Work in Kent at Leeds castle

Please note: We are currently not accepting any more Woodland & Wildlife Volunteers, you can still apply but will be added to a waiting list.

Our Woodland & Wildlife volunteers create, maintain, sustain and manage habitats for a wide range of flora and fauna across the Leeds Castle estate.

It’s an area full of life and you will be playing your part in protecting the biodiversity that ensures mammals, insects, reptiles and birds are as welcome here as our paying visitors.

For more information, please read the Opportunity spec.

Please note: We are currently not accepting any more Falconry Volunteers, you can still apply but will be added to a waiting list.

Our falconry volunteers play an important role in caring for the birds of prey and other birds that call Leeds Castle home. You’ll be supporting important conservation work, including welcoming new arrivals during baby season, our favourite time of year.

You will be helping us to ensure the eagles, owls and hawks kept at our Bird of Prey Centre feel like VIPs. With displays, visits and experiences organised for the enjoyment of the public, they certainly deserve all the attention they get.

Please note: We are currently not accepting any more Garden Volunteers, you can still apply but will be added to a waiting list.

As a Volunteer Gardner, you’ll be in your element rolling up your sleeves and with spade in hand, helping to transform some of the most mesmerising grounds and gardens in England – all year round. There’s no greater satisfaction than seeing the flowers you planted bloom – or the joy they bring.

Your task list will include maintaining magnificent areas of dazzling beauty such as the Lady Baillie Mediterranean Garden Terraces and the Culpeper Gardens, rewarding visitors who wander through with the perfect sensory experience.

As a host or hostess, you will be one of the people our visitors most remember from their visit to Leeds Castle helping them to discover the secrets and surprises of a place like no other.

This role is more than simply meeting and greeting people, as important as that is. You’ll be bringing this wonderful place to life as you share stories of queens and heiresses, fabulous parties and fascinating insights into life above and below stairs.

We love to give everyone who visits a wonderful welcome and you’ll be able to do just that when you volunteer with us.

There will be lots of opportunities to show off your customer services skills or build new ones for the future. This is a place after all based on discovery, and that means finding out what you most enjoy too.

You’ll be helping to support our important work with schools and educational groups from across London and the South East of England region, the rest of the UK and overseas.

Throughout the year we host talks, workshops and tours to bring the past to life and the future into focus. This is more than just a volunteering role; you’ll be helping to inspire this and future generations.

Come and support one of our oldest and most popular experiences. The nine-hole pay and play golf course at Leeds Castle is a spectacular place to work and play.

You’ll be helping to ensure our golfers have the best welcome by keeping the greens and bunkers in prime condition or answering any questions they might have while out on the fairway.

Please note: We are currently not accepting any more Fundraising Volunteers, you can still apply but will be added to a waiting list.

Want to use your skills to help protect & preserve our wonderful castle for current & future generations? Join the fundraising team and support us to achieve our ambitions plans to develop strong partnerships.

Working as part of the fundraising department, you will support us in raising vital funds to protect the castle and its estate. Using your research and administrative support, we will be able to maximise our time into raising more crucial funds.

If you’re enthusiastic & looking to build your experience in the culture & heritage sector, then this could be the role for you.

If you are cheerful and enthusiastic, you enjoy talking to people and making their experience special, Visitor Operations (Second Hand Bookshop Volunteer) may be for you.  As a Volunteer you will be welcoming the public and selling a wide variety of second-hand books.

Your role would include, but not limited to, the following:

• By observing and anticipating visitor needs, offering them information when required, responding in a welcoming, cheerful manner.
• Making sure that your designated working environment is safe for visitors and that the company’s property is protected.
• To provide support for wheelchair users, helping them to enjoy their visit of the bookshop where required.
• To be part of Leeds Castle’s commitment to improve and develop the service provided to Day Visitors enhancing their overall visit.
• Categorising ,sorting and selling the books

When you are volunteering with us you will be happy to work in a team. You will need to be reasonably fit as you will be on your feet and bending and stretching during the day.

We would ask that you are available at least one day a week Monday through to Sunday. Normal hours will be ; 1000-1530 (Winter) 1000-1630 (Summer).