A volunteering placement at the National Theatre Archive is designed to provide the opportunity for anyone over the age of 18 interested in a career in archiving or theatre to experience a unique, specialist, Accredited archive service in a large and dynamic theatrical organisation.

You will gain valuable insight into how a theatre archive is managed, organised, and utilised by researchers both within the National Theatre and beyond. You can learn to catalogue archive material according to a classification system; prepare material for digitisation projects; and develop your knowledge of archival research and management.

Examples of projects you could be working on include:

• Cataloguing and repackaging National Theatre posters dating back to 1963
• Rehousing and systematising press reviews according to a cataloguing system
• Data checking the performance database on collections management system CALM
• Categorising and reorganising the Studio library

Travel and lunch expenses up to £10 per day will be paid.

Currently, volunteer placements take place one day per week from Mondays-Fridays between the hours of 10am-5pm over a period of approximately 8 weeks. However, we are flexible, and open to alternative time commitments such as: full-time over a period of 2 weeks or 2-3 days per week over a period of a month.

We will advertise future volunteering opportunities here. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please email archive@nationaltheatre.org.uk.