Opportunities in and near Chester

Keep a community fitness hub running by answering enquiries, managing bookings and attendance records, and organising files. Volunteer flexibly at Argyle Community Fitness in Birkenhead, agreeing your attendance directly with the provider.

Explore clinical and non-clinical NHS roles through community-based insight days or placements lasting up to five days. You could spend time in local health centres, clinics, community service sites or corporate offices - not hospitals.

Part of the Culture and Society RKEI Public Lecture Series, this talk explores Europe’s borderlands and the lived realities of places where borders are enforced and contested.

Journalist, author and political analyst Lewis Baston discusses themes from his bestselling book Borderlines, examining border regions from Ireland in the west to Ukraine in the east, and reflecting on Chester as a familiar border city. The lecture will consider the social, political and human dimensions of borders, including customs, checkpoints and security.

The event takes place on the University of Chester campus in Exton Park (School of Education 016). Booking is via the University’s ticketing link.

Meet at a divisional police headquarters in Llay each Tuesday evening to explore community safety, first aid, crime prevention and different areas of policing. Build teamwork and leadership skills, then put them into practice by volunteering at community events and supporting local initiatives.

Train in acting, dance and musical theatre with industry-expert tutors in a professional theatre, then build towards a final showcase. You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes insight into a college production and a professional headshot for your portfolio.

Respond to fires, floods and severe weather across Wrexham as part of a 24-hour on-call service. You’ll attend monthly team meetings and complete online learning and service-specific training in your first few months.

Explore courses and student life across Chester campuses, then tour facilities and talk directly with academic staff, current students and support teams. You can also join sessions on student finance, UCAS applications and accommodation.

Take guided tours of the Wrexham campus, then hear about courses, applications, funding, scholarships and accommodation. Join subject talks to speak directly with academic staff and current students, and find out what pastoral and academic support is available.

Support communities across Cheshire through informative, educational and practical activities. Choose roles that fit your skills and time commitments, and take on more than one if you wish. Build confidence and communication skills while meeting like-minded people.

Explore public service roles through work experience placements across council locations including Chester, Ellesmere Port, Winsford and Northwich. Build practical skills over one to five days, and use your application statement to name a council job role that interests you.

Complete four self-paced legal tasks exploring research, drafting, time management and attention to detail. Each takes around an hour, and you can fit them around your studies. Finish all four to receive a certificate for your CV or personal statement.

Explore how a global engineering company designs products used in real-world technology, then discover its history, culture and STEM-linked roles. Build your understanding of problem solving, teamwork and creativity through employee stories about early careers pathways.

Work through four virtual tasks tracing a medicine from molecule to market, including UK health economics, brand marketing and go-to-market strategy. Explore how research, pricing and customer insight shape a launch, then earn a completion certificate signed by Forage’s CEO.

Two half-day sessions show you how a law firm works: hear from business teams, compare university and apprenticeship routes, and explore areas of law. Complete both in Year 12 to be invited to apply for summer work experience, with travel and food covered.

Hear from the first woman to serve as Northern Ireland’s Lady Chief Justice as she examines how courts have interpreted the Good Friday Agreement within the region’s constitutional framework.

Explore ethical hacking, digital forensics, phishing and AI-driven scams in an online Computing taster. Hear about degree specialisms including AI and Robotics and Gaming and Immersive Technologies, then ask current students and staff questions in a live Q&A.

Hear directly from psychology students and academic staff in a live online taster session. Explore a BPS-accredited degree, its tutorial model and flexible study options, then discover career paths from mental health to research. Ask your questions via online chat.

Explore why prices rise, how interest rates shift and how the Bank of England responds in an interactive economics session led by two professors. Dig into money supply, energy prices, markets and regulation, connecting economic theory to current events.

Trace how William Herbert built political and economic power in the 1460s through land, office and Bristol Channel trading. At Raglan, Welsh poets’ work reveals how Herbert and Anne Devereux used magnificence and cultural patronage to communicate authority.

Explore how Gettysburg became a symbol of the American project, from Abraham Lincoln’s address to generations of visitors treating the battlefield as a place of pilgrimage. The lecture is available in person or on Zoom.