Student Volunteer featured in Channel magazine and wins another award!

Dan Pothecary, an Education and English Literature student, based at the Hastings campus, is featured in this term's Channel Magazine. Channel is distributed to all university sites and externally to organisations and alumni.

Read Dan's article here. Dan has also won the UBSU Contraception and Sexual Health (CaSH) Volunteer of the Year.  This is Dan's second award for his community contributions, having already won a Hastings Youth Award last year. Well done Dan!

If you'd like to volunteer in your local community, do register with Active Student.

Get involved in this year’s fantastic Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe 2013

Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe take place in May 2013 and Active Student has various opportunities to get involved in volunteering, to complement your degree, gain relevant skills and experience, as well as a chance for networking within the arts industry.  This year, Brighton Festival is lucky enough to have Michael Rosen as the Guest Director.

Our portfolio of exciting up and coming arts-related volunteering opportunities includes…

The Nightingale Theatre

Theatre Stewards and Box Office Volunteers for a catalogue of different performances as part of Brighton Fringe including:

Boogaloo Stu’s Pop Magic, A Girl Called Owl and Wild Thing I love you…and many more

Lighthouse Arts and Training

Exhibition Invigilators for Mariele Neudecker’s exhibition  ‘ The Air Itself is One Vast Library’

The Phoenix Gallery

Invigilation roles for their current exhibition focusing on Artists Books as part of the festival.

Lucky Dog Productions

Front of House volunteers needed for their Fringe Production of ‘Laurel and Hardy’

…and many more!

Spotlight on volunteering in Hastings

If you are a Hastings based student, come to the Active Student volunteering information stands where you can find out more about all the local opportunities available including : advice work, arts, befriending, communications, community development, conservation, education , gardening , health and social care, IT, museums, mentoring ex-offenders, mentoring young people, National Trust , research , social care , social media , sports, website design, wildlife, woodlands, working with children and young people…..and more

What’s more - each week we will be joined by an organisation looking for volunteers. Come and find out all your options!

Where: The Foyer, Priory Square, Hastings Campus

Time: 11.30 am to 1.30 pm