Ways to help out around Exeter: drop-in sessions you can just turn up to, one-off tasks, and longer roles with local charities and groups.
Ways to help out around Exeter: drop-in sessions you can just turn up to, one-off tasks, and longer roles with local charities and groups.
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Exeter · Befriending & older people
Visit an older person at home for about an hour a week, make friendly phone calls, help in the community café or give information and advice.
Exeter city centre · Heritage & museums, Arts & festivals
Steward, guide tours (including the roof), tell stories, help at events, in the shop and with education, or join the flower arrangers.
Shifts at partner venues, booked through the volunteer portal
Exeter city centre · Heritage & museums · Free to volunteer
Flexible volunteering across Exeter's heritage sites, from St Nicholas Priory and the Custom House to RAMM and Tuckers Hall: artefact care, gardening, events, front of house and guided tours.
How to start: Apply online; training offered (public engagement, conservation, safeguarding, first aid)
Broadclyst · 7 miles from the centre · Conservation & green spaces, Heritage & museums
Conservation work on the Killerton estate and in the house, welcoming visitors, driving the visitor buggy and behind-the-scenes help, plus one-off tree-planting days.
Exeter city centre · Heritage & museums
Guide exhibitions, welcome visitors, run object handling in the galleries or help with research at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
Not recruiting right now: register interest
Streatham campus, Exeter · Arts & festivals
Front-of-house audience care and special projects at the Exeter Northcott Theatre.
Not recruiting right now: register interest
Exeter city centre · Arts & festivals
Steward cinema screenings and events, invigilate the galleries or help with festivals and projects at Exeter Phoenix.
Not recruiting right now: register interest
Pride 2026 was on 9 May
Exeter (city centre) · Arts & festivals · Free to volunteer
Exeter's annual Pride march and festival, run by a charity with over 100 volunteers on the day: welcoming visitors, carrying flags, collecting donations and stewarding.
Not recruiting right now: register interest
How to start: No experience necessary; volunteers are trained before the event and can volunteer with friends or be paired with a steward. Health and safety training (online or in person) is required.
Exeter · Sport & events
Marshal courses, staff aid stations or ride as lead cyclist at Exeter running events such as the Quayside 5 series and the Exeter Half.
Exeter (RD&E Wonford site; Heavitree) · Health & care, Charity shops
Welcome people to FORCE's cancer support centre at the hospital, help in its snack bar or Heavitree charity shop, or support fundraising events.
The museum building is closed for major structural repairs
Topsham · Heritage & museums · Free to volunteer
Volunteer-run independent museum on the Strand in Topsham. Volunteers help with collections, research and oral history, displays, the garden, publicity and, when open, the shop and tea room.
How to start: New volunteers are given a very friendly welcome, whatever their experience; tell them your interests via the form.