2025 Radio Volunteer

University of the Arts London; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of the Arts London is offering volunteer roles for the Bloomsbury Festival, providing training in radio production. Candidates aged 18+ will learn valuable skills, work with professionals, and engage with vibrant festival activities in Bloomsbury. No experience required, just enthusiasm and commitment.

Qualifications

• Must be eager and willing to learn.
• No prior experience in radio needed.
• Good availability during the festival week.

Responsibilities

• Learn about working at a radio station and conducting live broadcasts.
• Assist in creating content for the radio channel.
• Help cover the Bloomsbury Festival events.

Skills

Enthusiasm

Interest in digital/media communications

Job description

Hours Flexible hours - can be work around your schedule/availability

Closing Date 01 July 2025

Volunteering Location Bloomsbury, London

Volunteering Length Training sessions begin in July and 'on the ground' tasks begin in the lead up and duration of the 2025 Bloomsbury Festival.

Supervisor Job Title Training Development Manager at Bloomsbury Institute

Bloomsbury Festival are offering up to 8 radio training roles for volunteers interested in radio production. You will be working with Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio to cover the Bloomsbury Festival in October 2025.This is an unique opportunity to acquire radio production skills, interviewing skills and to work alongside radio and broadcasting professionals.

Each Radio Volunteer will receive training from radio and broadcast professionals at the Bloomsbury Institute. The bespoke training sessions offered to you will cover radio recording, interviewing and broadcasting. The training can be offered to work around your timetable and can be one-to-one if necessary.

Bloomsbury Festival is an annual arts, culture and science festival that takes place throughout the Bloomsbury area in London. This year it will be taking place across a long weekend from Friday 17th – Sunday 19th October (with additional preview events from Tuesday 14th October).

The volunteer roles are designed for anyone aged 18+ who either lives or studies in the Bloomsbury area. This opportunity is open to students and others from all backgrounds and interests. You don’t need any prior experience or training but you will need to be able to commit time and effort to this opportunity.

Those selected will receive training from Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio to help with the radio station and have a go at radio coverage of an annual arts, culture and science charity festival.

This is a brilliant opportunity for anyone interested in the arts and culture industry, in media and communications, or in general radio production and broadcasting.

Main Duties

Recruited through the Festival, volunteers are given a chance to receive training from Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio to learn about working at a radio station, how to host interviews, and conduct live broadcasts from events.

You will be assisting at their radio station but also help to create content to be broadcast on the channel.

The aim of the training offered to Radio Station Volunteers is that they help to cover the Bloomsbury Festival period for Bloomsbury Radio. This can include helping at the studio, taking the lead on interviewing artists and event partners, and even doing some live broadcasting from events.

This is a flexible opportunity and one that can be discussed with the professional/supervisors at Bloomsbury Radio.

This opportunity is for anyone aged 18+ who live, work or study in the Bloomsbury and surrounding area. We welcome anyone to apply and no previous experience or training in radio is required.

All we ask is that you:
– Are eager and willing to learn
– Have previous interest in digital/media communications and radio (though experience is not essential)
– Are able to commit to any training sessions and any responsibilities you are given

Essential Requirement:
– You must have good availability the week before and the week of Bloomsbury Festival 2025 (events taking place from Tuesday 14th – Sunday 19th October).

No previous experience or training is required, however, we ask that you approach this opportunity with enthusiasm and commitment to the training and time.

What will the volunteering role offer the student and what will they learn while they are with you?

Recruited through the Festival, volunteers are given a chance to receive training from Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio to learn about working at a radio station, how to host interviews, and conduct live broadcasts from events.

Included in the Radio training is:

• Zoom interviews
• Editing into packages for pre-recorded interviews

Training can be arranged with your supervisors at Bloomsbury Institute to work with your timetable and can be done over Meetings/Zoom if needed. Training may also take place as a one-to-one session with your Bloomsbury Radio supervisors.

Overall time commitments are flexible and you will be able to discuss and negotiate your shifts/responsibilities with your supervisor.

Please know that while this is a flexible volunteering opportunity we do ask that you are committed to putting in the time and effort for any shifts agreed to.