Y12 Work Experience Week
Students have the opportunity to spend one week out of school on a work experience programme. Students are provided with log in details to access the placement database. Work experience forms need to be completed and returned to the Sixth Form Centre to enable us to secure a requested placement.
Work Experience & Volunteering
- Work experience abroad
- work experience advice by ratemyapprenticeship website
- work experience advice by AllAboutCareers
- Work experience - UCAS
- Law work experience advice - The Lawyers Portal
Work Experience alternatives
Recommended sites:
Free online resources available. For example:
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Cumbria and UK wide work experience schemes
Volunteering
This list is not exhaustive, but it will provide a starting point. There are local volunteering opportunities that can be sourced through contacts at school or the wider community.
- Cumbria Volunteers Service
- National Citizen Service
- British Red Cross - accepting applications for work experience in summer 2020 between 1 April 2020 and 1 June 2020 (please note applications made outside of these dates will not be accepted). Otherwise, other support roles available throughout the year.
- Do-it
- Next Door
- Volunteering Matters - community based volunteering
- Volunteer England (NCVO) - information and guidance about volunteering in the UK and overseas
- NHS volunteering opportunities
- Youth Action Net
- St John's Ambulance
- The Royal Voluntary Service - offer a wide variety of volunteering opportunities that make a huge difference to the lives of people while in hospital and in the community.
- The Medic Portal - volunteering placements info and advice
- Samaritans
- Age UK
- The Trussell Trust - volunteering at a food bank
- Fareshare - fighting hunger, tackling food waste.
- National Trust - volunteering
- National Trust Thistle Camps - Scottish working holidays for those passionate about conservation, getting outdoors, or enjoy getting your hands dirty!
- WRG - Waterways recovery group if you want to volunteer to restore and preserve the waterways.
- Festival Volunteering - you give your time at a festival, and in return they make a donation to a charity of your choice.
- RSPCA
- The Dogs Trust
- RSPB
- The Wildlife Trusts
- Marine Conservation Society
- The Conservation Volunteers
- WWOOF - Worldwide opportunities on organic farms - volunteering charity.
- Environment - volunteering - search listing worldwide
- Green Volunteers - conservation volunteering projects
- Team London Volunteering Service
- VSO - volunteering abroad
- International Voluntary Service
- Work and Volunteer
- Go Overseas programs
- Go International - study and work abroad during university study
- Projects abroad
- TEFL courses
- Missing maps - open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable people.
- Vinspired - search for local/UK volunteering roles (this may have gone into liquidation, but possibly re-registered in 2020)
Save the Student guide to volunteering - section on the dangers of voluntourism.
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