Opportunities across Gloucestershire

Sort Out Your Annual Report with Christina Poulton - for small charities (or keen CICs!)

Live workshop Wed 21 Oct 2026 + recording | £45

https://www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/

Strike A Light are looking for a Board Secretary. We're looking for an organised person with strong admin skills and excellent attention to detail to help our board run smoothly. The role of secretary is a great fit for someone with strong admin skills and an interest in undertaking a paid role within a board or charity.

10 days per year // £170 per day // Deadline 9th November 2026 at 9am

https://strikealight.org.uk/

An immersive work of poetry, piano, silence and spoken word, opening a shared space of deep listening where sound, stillness and presence meet with Cassie Yukawa-McBurney and Simon McBurney.

Saturday 17th Oct - 16.30-17.30 — £15.00

Held at Holy Trinity Church. 1 Trinity Rd, Stroud GL5 2H

Lanterns at Llanthony with Mindful Clay

Join us for three mindful sessions to create your own ceramic lanterns in the historic Llanthony Secunda Priory!

30th October 10-12PM, 6th November 10-12PM, 20th November 10-12PM - £75 for all three

Frantic Assembly: 3-Day Training Course

This three-day course offers you the opportunity to explore the Frantic Method with one of our practitioners.

Friday 27th - Sunday 29th November - £245
Residential and Non-Residential Places Available

Hawkwood, Stroud

BIG HARMONY singing workshop

Singing in the gorgeous surroundings of St Mary DeCript, Sorrel, Renee and Kirsty will guide you expertly through learning a number of songs, in up to 4 part harmony. The songs we choose come from a range of traditions.

Saturday 7 November, 1:30–5:00pm

St Mary de Crypt, Gloucester

Agatha Christie's The Hollow

Christie's classic country-house mystery! Balancing humour with tragedy, The Hollow, adapted from her 1946 novel, is one of Agatha Christie’s most compelling plays.

26-30 January 2027

Cotswold Playhouse

A fortnightly night of DJs in the heart of Stroud, raising funds to keep our doors open. All welcome!

Friday 23 October, 7pm–11pm

1 Kendrick Street, Stroud

Hawkwood is Hiring a New Programme Manager

We're looking for our next Programme Manager, an exciting opportunity to shape and curate the future of our programme across arts and creativity, wellbeing, climate and sustainability, and transformative leadership.

DEADLINE: 12pm on Monday 26th October

Hawkwood, Stroud

Artistic Director Wanted

Cinderford Artspace is recruiting an Artistic Director to join its Management Team. Working alongside the Development Director, you’ll oversee key contracts and Artspace’s artistic direction. 24 hours/week (3 days by arrangement); £19/hour (£23,712 annually; £39,520 FTE).

Deadline: 5pm, 9 November 2026. Interviews: 25 November

Cinderford

This showcase event brings together the artists taking part in the programme, who’ll perform their original music live, some for the first time in Gloucester. Expect a mix of emerging solo artists, singers, rappers and MC’s, with a special guest joining us on the night. Come along, support new talent and hear some of the artists shaping the region’s next generation of new music.

Sat 14th Nov at 7:00pm-9:30pm

The Music Works, Gloucester

A paid opportunity for young music creatives in Gloucester to join The Multi-Story Orchestra and Strike A Light for an exciting new music project.

Deadline 12 October!

Gloucester

Library users and non-users: could you fill out a survey?

The survey will remain open until Friday 23 October

Online

Redesign, adapt and reimagine textiles in a friendly Tuesday evening class. All abilities welcome.

Tuesdays, 6:30pm–8:30pm, £25 per session

Emergence Commons, 1 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ

FVAF also helps individuals and organisations to find suitable volunteering opportunities. We also run a number of community based projects in the Forest of Dean.

If you are interested in volunteering, please call us on 01594 822073, or email contact@fvaf.org.uk.

As an Arts charity we rely on the help of volunteers to support us in our work, without this support we would not be able to provide and achieve to the extent we do. If you would like to give some of your free time and if any of the following applies to you, then why not become a volunteer.

We are looking for volunteers of all ages to help out in a range of different roles. From helping with children's activities, to delivering books, offering digital help and even improving our library gardens. See our wide range of volunteer roles. Some do short-term projects, and some stay for years! You can read more about the different roles and the experiences of some of our volunteers below.

https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/libraries/volunteer-in-a-library/volunteer-roles-and-vacancies/

Providing Meaningful Music for people living with dementia.

We couldn’t do the work we do without our volunteers, and a brilliant bunch they are. Many are drawn from local choirs, but by no means all. Most are people who love music and want to share it with others.

https://www.mindsong.org.uk/volunteering/

Volunteers play a vital role in the work that The Trust does to enrich the lives of residents and visitors to Cheltenham and we are always on the look-out for new volunteers to join our vibrant team.

Volunteers can be found inspiring families at our workshops and community events, researching and caring for artefacts in the museum collections , guiding visitors around the iconic heritage destination Pittville Pump Rooms , looking after our retail shops, leading guided walks and much more.”

Volunteers are essential to the running of St Mary DeCrypt. Many of them have extensive knowledge about the history of our building and Gloucester and there's always a friendly face to greet any visitors!

They describe themselves as ‘a community of friends’. If you'd like to join them, in whatever capacity that could be, please take a look at the volunteering page on the website.

The Holst Victorian House (previously known as Holst Birthplace Museum) is a thriving volunteer run museum in the heart of Pitville. Our volunteers join us to make friends, to pursue an interest, to further their careers or just for fun! No prior knowledge of Gustav Holst or Victorian history is needed.  

holstvictorianhouse.org.uk/volunteer

GRCC are proud to support the voluntary sector in Gloucestershire and want to both encourage people to volunteer and also help organisations with managing, supporting or recruiting volunteers.

https://www.grcc.org.uk/news-events/news-events/post/146-why-volunteer

GoVolunteerGlos.org, the new digital home of volunteering in Gloucestershire, launched on 1 June 2022, during national Volunteers’ Week.  It’s a free county-wide service for people aged 16 plus and is the easiest way to link volunteers to the largest and widest range of available opportunities.  

FREE networking event BY and FOR disabled creatives, and a PAID opportunity to present at the event!

4 November 12.30 - 1.30

PATCH, The Forum, Gloucester, GL1 1DG

Young people aged 14–25 who live in Gloucestershire can apply for a travel bursary.

Free printmaking sessions!

Coleford Library
Tuesday, 3 November
4:30-6:30 pm

Lydney Library
Thursday, 5 November
4:30-6:30 pm

This October half term, families are invited to embark on a magical adventure across Gloucestershire. Armed with a Dragon Keeper Logbook, you'll follow clues, uncover hidden secrets, meet magical characters and explore your local community as you train to become an Apprentice Dragon Keeper.

Dates: Saturday 24th October - Sunday 1 November

Libraries taking part: Dursley, Matson, Hesters Way, Oakley and Cinderford

October is macrame: decorative knotting and a plant hanger to take home.

Wednesdays 14, 21 and 28 October, 6:30pm–8:30pm. £25 per session.

1 Kendrick Street