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Get Involved

Get InvolvedWe welcome - local and international volunteers (donating their time and services) - students on placement (work experience as part of a programme of study) - and will in future offer apprenticeships and training schemes leading to formal qualifications. Abundant opportunities for exercising the muscles of the mind and the body - training and retraining - learning and unlearning. Join the team bringing the cultural programme to life (as well as undertaking building maintenance, administration, fund raising, and everything else required to keep the The Black-E going).

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Volunteers

We offer an ‘open door’ to volunteers. Volunteers may be as young as 18 or any more seasoned vintage (volunteers under 18 are occasionally accepted). Volunteers may arrive seeking experience and skills, or may arrive with experience and skills to share. Volunteers may be offering to become involved for a day, a week, a month, a year, or longer. Volunteers may ‘move on’ after their period of involvement, may develop a long-term relationship with the project, or may (on occasion) become a paid full-time or part-time member of staff. There are as many different patterns of volunteering as there are volunteers.

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Apprenticeships and Training Schemes

Previous apprenticeships and training schemes at The Black-E have not (with one exception) provided participants completing the schemes with formal qualifications. They have however provided such participants with the experience and skills for employment, and for acceptance on schemes and courses provided by other institutions and organisations and leading to formal qualifications.

 

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Student Placements

Student placements - during which students, as part of their course of study, gain experience, knowledge and skills at The Black-E while ‘working away’ from their educational institution - are generally measured in weeks, and sometimes in one or two terms. Placements are occasionally full-time, but more often for an agreed number of hours per week. In effect the student is a ‘reflective volunteer’, engaged in a particular area of work, whilst also reflecting on it in written reports, and being supervised by a member oif staff. Placements have been undertaken with students of the graphic and fine arts, drama, play and youth work, media, and psychology.

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