Come and join us

Do you have some spare time?
Do you enjoy helping people?
Do you like books?
Do you appreciate a new challenge?

If you have answered yes to two or more questions, you could be just the person we are looking for:

Bath & North East Somerset Libraries offer various volunteering opportunities.  These currently include: 

Home Library Service volunteers – you choose books etc and take them to people who are housebound.  You may be their only visitor that day, so befriending is important. People are needed across Bath & North East Somerset.

Home Library Service Volunteer Coordinators – you would help to organise the Home Library Service across the City of Bath, ensuring that volunteers are visiting housebound readers.

Bookstart Volunteers – you will prepare and deliver Bookstart packs for under 5s in Bath.  Bookstart aims to give every child in the UK a lifelong love of books through giving three free Bookstart packs of books and guidance materials to babies, toddlers and pre-school children.

Children’s Service Volunteers – you will help with children’s activities in Bath Central Library, such as story times and Baby Bounce and Rhyme.

Reading Groups Volunteers – you will help to start and run reading groups and/or poetry or reminiscence sessions; some of these will have a particular focus on the socially isolated.  People are needed across Bath & North East Somerset.

For all these opportunities, please contact the Special Services Team on 01225 396304 / 787440, or email libraries@bathnes.gov.uk  or write to Bath Central Library, 19 The Podium, Northgate St., Bath, BA1 5AN.

There are many other volunteering opportunities in Bath & North East Somerset.  Click here for further information.