Opportunities in and near Ipswich

Work with museum collections, help on an estate, welcome visitors or take on remote tasks, with flexible time commitments to fit your availability. You’ll get an induction covering health and safety, signing in, your supervisor and practical information about the site.

Build practical zoo experience through animal husbandry or research placements, working full-time on a rotating schedule that includes weekends. Prepare diets, maintain enclosures and support enrichment, or collect data and assess animal welfare to help inform husbandry decisions.

Tour campus and accommodation, then try taster talks and practical workshops that show what lectures are like. Speak with department staff, explore faculty hubs and meet the Students’ Union to discover clubs and societies.

Shape green wood with saws, knives and drills, then build shelters, light fires using natural tinder and cook over them in a supervised outdoor session at Foxburrow Nature Reserve, for ages 11-16.

International students aged 10-17 join regular lessons alongside local students, with one-to-one English support and a British buddy to help them settle in. Explore sports, creative arts and inter-house competitions, plus excursions to London, Cambridge and Oxford.

Take a guided walk around Colchester campus, meet a member of the team and view accommodation - or explore at your own pace on a self-guided tour. You can also check out the virtual tour if you can’t make it in person.

Take two academic taster sessions, tour the campus and get lunch while exploring subjects from Psychology and Law to Computer Science and Film. A welcome talk and subject-specific sessions help you picture what university study could be like.

Explore the campus in person, hear talks from academics and tour accommodation. Get practical information to compare courses and campuses, from student life and facilities to support services and applying to Essex.

Train as a cadet through teamwork and community activity, developing practical life skills, resilience and leadership. Parade nights run on Monday evenings from 19:30 to 21:30 at the Billericay Cadet Centre; wait for an email before visiting.

Volunteer in community libraries across Suffolk, supporting children’s Reading Quest or Lego sessions, older adults through support groups or home deliveries, and everyday library life - from digital help to shelving.

Spend 1-5 days exploring clinical or non-clinical NHS departments and get an insight into healthcare careers, workplace culture and expectations. Placements are arranged in advance and typically run from 09:00 to 16:00.

Shadow staff in clinical settings or explore corporate roles in HR, finance, estates, communications and digital. Placements last from one day to two weeks, and you can complete 10 hours of mental health virtual work experience at a time that suits you.

Spend two days in a hospital environment, meet healthcare professionals and explore NHS roles through work experience or taster days in Midwifery and Medical Physics. You can also complete 25 hours of virtual work experience at your own pace and receive a certificate.

A free online toolkit takes you from conservation campaigning and volunteering to planning your own project, with guides on fundraising, craftivism and writing to an MP. Reflect on your progress, then choose to submit your project for recognition through the Champions in Conservation Award.

Explore the history of crime and punishment in the UK through interactive activities, then connect historical enquiry with criminological thinking. See what university-level study involves as you examine legal systems, criminal punishment and course research - all in a flexible, self-paced session of around two hours.

Explore physiotherapy, midwifery, paramedic science and nursing through a virtual healthcare taster, then investigate human anatomy and physiology in an online lab. The two-and-a-half-hour course can be completed in flexible chunks.

Explore dystopia and utopia alongside Death of the Author, Roland Barthes and post-structuralism through interactive activities. Get a feel for university-level discussion and analysis in a self-paced session you can pause and resume, taking about two hours.

Choose subject masterclasses, get mentoring from current students and experience a summer school, with support for UCAS applications, personal statements and interviews. Complete the programme and you could receive a contextual offer; travel and meals are provided for in-person activities.

Explore marketing, events and hospitality management, business management, and accounting and finance in a self-paced, two-hour virtual taster of degree-level business study. Pause and return whenever suits you.

Work through a self-paced, two-hour virtual taster using interactive activities to unpack the built environment and real estate life cycle. Then consider how cities might develop and explore sustainability, completing the session in one sitting or in more than one sitting.