Students volunteer to experience and explore working in museums, archives and libraries at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL). Volunteering is accredited through a link with Reading University Students' Union RED (Reading Experience and Development) Award.
Student-led activities in partnership with the community where both students and permanent residents volunteered together, aiming to overcome growing community issues of ‘studentification’.
Award developed by the University of York to provide recognition of the skills developed through academic study, work experience and leisure interests carried out whilst at university
Third/fourth year students at The University of Bath communicate mathematics in an exciting, interactive way to the public through four tasks - an exhibition at Bath Taps Into Science, a master class for the Royal Institution, a student-led project, and a mathematics project in any medium.
Exploring Impacts of Volunteering on University Students in London
A collaborative research project between eight London universities to develop understanding of the impact of volunteering on students' personal development.
The project facilitated inter-disciplinary student volunteer teams who designed, developed and delivered innovative and exciting learning modules for primary school children at risk of disengaging with education. It is a collaboration between the university, business and schools.
Intergenerational Reminiscence Project
The Intergenerational Reminiscence Project aims to break down barriers between the elderly and local school children through student volunteer facilitated workshops, which focus on two-way communication of knowledge and life experience.
UCL Step Out and other adventures
A collaboration between UCL's public engagement unit and their volunteering services unit to encourage postgraduate students to develop public engagement projects.
Practical Piracy is a series of workshops led by post-graduate researchers from the University of Warwick to engage children with their research in a fun and engaging manner.
Liverpool Applied Social Research Module
An optional accredited research project as part of undergraduate sociology courses. Students are placed with a Voluntary, Community or Faith Organisations to research a problem/issue identified by the client organsation. Placements cover a range of topics including domestic abuse, mental health and...
A National Trust Student Ambassador hosted a Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the University of Plymouth to raise awareness of the National Trust among the student body.
A 24 hour bodiversity study carried out in six university campuses across the country in 2010, offering a diversity of student volunteering opportunities and engaging people from across communities.
Dance, Tag Rugby and Netball societies from the University of Brunel designing and delivering after school coaching sessions for primary school pupils in partnership with the West London Academy Children's University
Discovery is a student-led registered charity based at Swansea University that links student volunteers with a comprehensive range of community activities. These include running a charity shop, fund raising and publicity, volunteering with children and vulnerable adults, and environmental projects.
Social Policy into Practice - learning through volunteering
An optional 20 credit module in the second year of the BA Social Policy degree at the University of Birmingham. It enables students to volunteer locally, giving an opportunity to gain practical experience of organisations and settings in which social policy is put into practice at ‘ground level’...
Two to the Left, Two to the Right
A fun event to raise awareness of the positive impact of students in the community.
Through community placements, undergraduate and MSc students studying entrepreneurship at the University of Southampton were given the chance to work with social enterprises as part of their assessed coursework.
Bursting the Bubble: Peer-led Research
Bursting the Bubble, research into students, volunteering and the community adopted a peer led participatory methodology, involving student researchers in all stages of the process
Research Informing Practice on Student Volunteering
Exploring the impacts upon volunteering practice within the University of East London, following participation in the 'Bursting the Bubble' research, commissioned by the NCCPE
Working with community organisations and with sports clubs and societies of Warwick Students Union to develop community volunteering projects based around their activities. The aim was to promote a change in the approach to volunteering within Warwick Volunteers.
Garden Share Feasibility Study
Student volunteers from the University of Bath led a feasibility study into the use of student gardens as allotments for local residents in the Oldfield Park area of the city
Kairos, Working Women Together (WWT)
Kairos WWT is a small organisation that recruits female-only volunteers to meet and offer friendship to women working on the street. They work with Warwick Volunteers to offer a wide range of volunteering experiences to Warwick students
London Student Volunteers Fortnight
In 2009 nine London universities came together with multiple community organisations and schools to coordinate a broad range of volunteering events and programmes across London, a pilot which has developed into an annual event.
