The Front of House team are the backbone to Nothe Fort visitor services, and our visitors comment time and time again on their kindness and friendliness.

There are many varied tasks within this team so you can focus on one element, or move around to different roles depending on your interest.

Roles include:

• Operating Admission tills
• Supporting Children’s Mouse Desk
• Operating Shop Till
• Acting as orientation Steward
• Welcoming visitors at the entrance (in high season)
• Supporting family holiday activities and the events programme

The work undertaken by the maintenance team is absolutely essential to prevent Nothe Fort from falling into dereliction.  Maintenance volunteers undertake a whole range of work to maintain and upgrade the fabric of the building and the displays.

This includes:

• Carpentry
• Electrical work
• Metal work
• Painting & cleaning
• Gardening
• Restoration work
• Surveyor

Nothe Fort Evacuee Experience volunteers run a very popular WWII programme based on life as an evacuee arriving at Weymouth. Roles include teacher, shopkeeper, air raid warden and kitchen and laundary.

Volunteers do not need to have previous teaching experience and will be supported by the team to develop confidence.  Volunteers will initially work alongside existing team members before taking on a role.

Nothe Fort is a scheduled monument and also a designated museum with a collection of objects and documents, including a photographic collection.  Over the next few years the curatorial team will be involved in an exciting redisplay.

The curatorial team roles include:

• Cataloguing objects
• Research
• Exhibition development

Our Graphics team support curatorial and visitor services by creating display material throughout the Fort.  The graphics team are supported by a Nothe Fort style-guide and dedicated resources.

Activities include:

• Marketing posters & adverts
• Signage
• Holiday activities signage
• Temporary exhibitions
• Displays

The Nothe Fort Artillery volunteers are an adjunct to the Fort but have a very important role in our events calendar.  They provide cannon and musket drill displays every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month throughout the year.

Our events programme has grown massively in the past few years and bring in many visitors. Each year we are trying to build these events, making them more exciting and unique and giving our visitors lasting memories of the Fort which will bring them back.

This role will assist in the planning and preparation of these events.

This role may include:

• Printing, cutting and laminating
• Researching craft activities
• Helping to decorate/set up
• Assisting on events
• Storing props and decorations
• Car park marshalling