Volunteers are the life blood of Out on Campus. Without volunteers, we wouldn’t be able to effectively promote Out on Campus, engage with seldom-heard communities, or organize events year-round!

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Volunteering with us will also be greatly beneficial for you:

  • Learning and developing skills: Immersing yourself in the LGBTQ+ communities will develop your ability to deal with diverse groups of people, improve your awareness of intersectionality, control your emotional reactions in stressful situations, improve your organizational skills, and learn important leadership skills as you become a stronger voice in your community (Mercier, Harold, Johnson, & Pond, 2016).
  • Co-curricular record: If you contribute at least 5 volunteering hours a month to Out on Campus, your volunteering work will be recognized on your co-curricular record. You can use this to support your applications for jobs and further education.
  • Collective membership: Long-standing volunteers (i.e., at least 3 months of consistent volunteering) are eligible to join the Out on Campus collective. The Out on Campus collective is currently being developed with a view to being in place by Spring 2019.
  • Reference letters: At their discretion, the Coordinator may write long-standing volunteers a reference detailing the activities they have been involved with, your positive conduct while volunteering, and your constructive relationship with the Coordinator and others you deal with while volunteering.

Explore the dropdown menus to see how you can help us improve the lives of LGBTQ+ students on campus and educate others on important issues affecting these communities, and take your first important step towards taking an active role in our mission by attending a volunteer orientation session!

The next volunteer orientation session will be: Late January 2019 (date/time tbd)

This will be an interactive session in which you will learn the basics of representing Out on Campus as a volunteer, embedding our core values in the work you do with us, and handling everyday issues that arise during our work.

We look forward to working with you!

Lounge care volunteers help keep Out on Campus safe, tidy, and welcoming. This role is a very social role; you will be making users of the space feel welcome and safe by getting to know visitors to the lounge, explaining our services, being vigilant to vibes and responding appropriately, and diplomatically upholding our safer space guidelines.

Outreach volunteers help get Out on Campus out on campus! You’ll be assisting with tabling events that advertise the lounge, the services we offer, and upcoming events to students who may not know who we are or may not be interested in what we do. If you enjoy talking to people and feel like you can sell Out on Campus, this is the role for you!

If you have good organizational and teamwork skills and want to make a great event idea into reality, then helping with programming would be perfect for you! Programming volunteers help make sure that all the preparations are made for upcoming events including booking space, producing materials, advertising events, collecting feedback, and generally helping out on the day.

Our huge LGBTQ+ library needs regular maintenance to keep it organized, user-friendly, and current! Library volunteers will also play a big role is reorganizing our library to make it easier to find what you’re looking for in preparation for our move to the new Student Society Building. As you become familiar with what we have, you’ll also be perfectly placed to suggest new books to add!

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