Volunteering opportunities for everyone
Trimontium welcomes enquiries from all new potential volunteers throughout the year.
Trimontium is a volunteer led organisation and we rely on our trusty cohort to support our activities and work. We welcome all ages, skills and experience.
There is no need to be a Roman expert (though you are more than welcome if you are), just enthusiasm and a willingness to get involved. The opportunities are many and varied including:
- Work in the museum as front of house, greeting and helping visitors.
- Learn to be a walk guide and then lead one of our popular local history walks from Melrose to Newstead.
- Assist in our archive, digitising documents and helping to create our online archive
- Take part in archaeological activities, including sorting, cataloguing and caring for finds
- Work behind the scenes at the museum, documentation, conservation etc.
- Help create social media content for our popular channels with almost 50k followers
- You don’t have to stick to just one role – lots of our volunteers do multiple activities.

We provide lots of training opportunities for those volunteers who want to expand their skills, get some work experience or just want to try something new. Trimontium is passionate about supporting the next generation of heritage stars and we are also accredited to provide certificates for the Saltire Awards for young people ages 12-25. We can even support remote volunteering for those who don’t live in the local area.
Trimontium volunteers have regular social events, free access to our talks, volunteer excursions and even a shop discount!
Work Experience Placements
We are happy to support school, college and university placements throughout the year. Students can get involved in all aspects of museum work, including front of house, social media, archaeology tasks & archiving. No previous experience is necessary- all we ask is that you have an interest in what we do and are keen to learn. Placements normally last a week, but we can be flexible. Trimontium is a small museum though, so capacity can be limited at times. Any placement requests should be made as soon as possible.

Want to volunteer with us?
You can download some further information about volunteer roles here
To register interest email our Volunteer Coordinator,
Frances Mann, at volunteer@trimontium.co.uk
or call 01835 342788
We can’t wait to welcome you into the
Trimontium family!