Waterside Specialist (Trip Boat Crew, National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port)

We are looking for volunteers to support our Trip Boat Crew throughout the season. We need your help any day, and we welcome applications from anyone who can kindly offer a minimum of 1 full day volunteering each week.

You will help with a wide variety of tasks and activities whilst training to be a deckhand, such as leading the commentary on our Trip Boat and assisting customers with tickets, rope handling, maintenance and cleaning of the craft. You will also be trained to steer the boat with a view to becoming a helmsperson. This will keep you on your feet most of the day, which is why we recommend this opportunity to people with previous boating experience already.

This volunteer opportunity is all about creating an exceptional and memorable visitor experience that makes memories, encourages people to return and to share their fantastic experience with others. You will be an ambassador of Canal & River Trust, telling fascinating stories about our heritage and the work of our charity in the modern day. If you enjoy working with people, public speaking, and have a thirst for knowledge to help you in answering visitors' questions, this is the perfect role for you.

Why we want you

Our Waterside Specialists help maintain the sustainability of the waterways by giving higher levels of skills through their volunteering.

Volunteering with the Trust takes on many guises and welcomes people with specialist skills in a wide range of areas from practical to surveying, indoors and out. These skills may include working alongside existing specialists within the Trust or bringing skills that we don’t currently have within our team? We have a wide range of skilled activities which you could be doing.

What you will be doing

The skills you need

What's in it for you