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Meet the organisations who will be attending Work Experience Fair on Tuesday 29 September 2026.
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BH Live is a leading operator of leisure and event venues; a charitable social enterprise that designs and builds engaging experiences to inspire people and enrich lives.We are at the heart of our community and the UK’s growing social economy committed to improving people’s lives. It’s about having a vision. We’re driven to improve the quality of people’s lives, and promote health and wellbeing to the whole community.The surplus we make is re-invested into our community
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
BXM Expeditions, established in 2010, is a UK-based provider of outdoor education and expedition services. Founded by an ex-teacher passionate about youth development and the outdoors, the company has expanded from a modest operation with 12 tents to one of the country's largest expedition providers. Specializing in programs like The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DofE) and The Venture Award, BXM offers a range of expeditions tailored to young people across the UK. They collaborate with over 100 schools, annually facilitating expeditions for more than 9,000 participants.
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
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Circles of Support and Accountability is committed to encouraging and promoting the rehabilitation, treatment, education and care of persons who have committed sexual offences, with the goal of reducing re-offending. Circles are also invested in the protection of, and care of, victims and others affected by offending behaviour.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
Arun & Chichester Citizens Advice is an independent charity (Registration number: 1099640) and a member of the National Association of Citizens Advice. We provide information and advice to solve your problems in regards to the following:
- Debt
- Housing
- Legal
- Healthcare
- Family
- Energy
- Consumer
- Employment
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
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Daybreak is a charity working across the South of England, supporting children, young people and their families who are experiencing challenge, change or conflict. Through family-led decision-making processes, we empower families to have a voice and feel in control of the decisions that affect their lives. We deliver services in partnership with Children’s Social Services for those facing high-level safeguarding concerns, as well as through our flagship community prevention project in Portsmouth, Dragonfly. This project supports families who need help navigating change or challenge but are at lower risk and not engaged with Social Services.
What they offer:
- Volunteering Opportunity
Decathlon is a family-owned company, founded in 1976, and inspired by the belief that the best sports products should be accessible to everyone.
Ever-evolving and high performance design, the best quality at the lowest possible price, and expert advice that customers of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels can access in-store or online, from anywhere, at any time, is what makes us who we are. And we’re pretty proud of that.
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
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An independent charity for the care, welfare and advancement of disabled people living in Portsmouth and the surrounding area. We work in partnership with disabled children and adults, their families and carers, to provide a range of high quality, professional and confidential services.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
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A registered charity working with local communities and businesses to highlight the impact of plastic pollution on our environment and to try to minimise the amount of plastic entering our local seas and wider oceans. We work with many different types of business on sustainability and to help them find ethical and sustainable alternatives to single-use plastic in their activities. We have a school outreach programme in the Solent area providing information to children through assemblies and workshops. We work with community groups, giving talks, running activities and encouraging people to avoid single-use plastic and how to best dispose of it if they do need to use it. We also run regular beach and community clean-ups.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
Field gun sport in Portsmouth is a strenuous, timed competition where teams of 18, or "crews," race to complete a course by pushing, pulling, carrying, and lifting a one-ton field gun and its ammunition limber. Our mission is to promote the sport of field gun around the world as an ethically robust, competitive team sport with a path from junior to representative crew member.
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
Here at FoodCycle our vision is to make food poverty, loneliness and food waste a thing of the past for every community. We connect communities, reducing loneliness and food poverty – working with thousands of volunteers and surplus food to help everyone who needs us. By creating welcoming spaces for people from all walks of life to meet, eat and have conversations, and by offering a weekly telephone Check-in and Chat, we are supporting people’s health and mental wellbeing. By cooking with surplus ingredients, we promote healthy, sustainable attitudes towards food and its impact on the environment, and help people to learn more about healthy food. We aim to inspire greater change by sharing the impact of our community dining spaces and the voices of our guests to encourage more people to join and support FoodCycle, so we can help more people and more communities.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, alongside nine other influential organisations, aim to restore seagrass meadows, oyster reefs, saltmarsh and seabird nesting habitat across the region. This effort includes working with landowners and regulators to improve the protection and management of existing Solent habitats, to monitor the benefits of seascape scale restoration scientifically and to ensure that local people and sea-users co-design the project, thereby becoming more connected and engaged with their own marine environment.
What they offer:
- Volunteering Opportunities
Visit the Hamshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust website
Student Watch is a Hampshire Constabulary initiative open to all University of Portsmouth students. This role works to support the work of the police in making Portsmouth an even safer city, by improving student awareness and community relations. Participating students are involved with at least 10 community initiatives that aim to keep students and community members safe and informed, giving volunteers the opportunity to develop invaluable work experience for their CV.
What they offer:
- Volunteering Opportunities
We are the UK's biggest mixed youth organisation. We change lives by offering 6 to 25-year-olds fun and challenging activities, unique experiences, everyday adventure and the chance to help others so that we make a positive impact in communities. Scouts helps children and young adults reach their full potential. Scouts develop skills including teamwork, time management, leadership, initiative, planning, communication, self-motivation, cultural awareness and commitment. We help young people to get jobs, save lives and even change the world.
What they offer:
- Volunteering Opportunities
We provide support to people with brain injury and other forms of acquired brain injury, their family members, carers, and interested professionals.
We support those affected by brain injury to understand, adapt and accept the changes brain injury brings to their lives enabling them to achieve maximum independence within their own community.
What they offer
- Volunteering opportunities
Home-Start Portsmouth is a voluntary organisation that support parents to be the best they can possibly be to achieve the best outcomes for their children. Volunteers are a fundamental part of the Home-Start service and support families in a range of ways, providing practical and emotional 1:1 support, leading stay & play groups at Family Hubs, supporting at events and helping behind the scenes to make sure the charity runs smoothly.
What they offer:
- Volunteering Opportunities
Our home care, which is based on consistency and companionship offers a different option to those who would prefer to remain at home. Our Care Professionals provide tailored care and support to each of our clients to accommodate the level of support needed, whether that’s home help, companionship, personal care, dementia care or end of life care.
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
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Keep Talking Services, a pioneering telephone befriending program, uniquely pairs health and social care students with individuals in need, focusing on alleviating loneliness and enhancing mental health. This innovative approach not only provides valuable support to clients but also offers a rich learning experience for students, fostering their understanding of mental health.
What they offer:
- Volunteering Opportunities
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Magical Maths is an after-school maths programme for primary aged children. The children participate in after-school sessions that will leave them ‘wowed’ and amazed whilst practising their curriculum maths. Magical Maths sessions are quite the spectacle; we’ve got a genius professor, world class detectives, mind reading magicians and eccentric athletes, all dedicated to making maths fun for primary school children.
What they offer:
- Part-time Jobs
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A non-profit organisation specialising in the support of people with Learning Disabilities, in the form of training. Knowledge about relationships and sexual education is often something we overlook and take for granted. However, this area of life is commonly neglected when teaching those with learning disabilities about safe sex and relationships (RSE) which consequently puts them in a vulnerable position where they may be at risk. This is where AreYou steps in, which provides the opportunity within a safe, judge free environment to educate about various relationship types, what makes them healthy and how to remain safe with sexual encounters. However, AreYou is not solely an RSE service due to its partnership with other companies under the Neuro Disability Network. Together we provide both educational and social opportunities to those with learning disabilities to enhance both their understanding and social connections.
What they offer:
- Volunteering Opportunities
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PHL are an established and expanding healthcare organisation responsible for providing a variety of urgent and primary health care services across Hampshire. As well as directly operating several urgent care services, PHL also offers consultancy and professional services to NHS and independent organisations.
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
PARCS is an organisation based in Portsmouth which works with people who have been sexually violated at any time and/or experienced domestic abuse. PARCS provides free specialist counselling and psychotherapy to all genders, aged 5 and above.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
Portsmouth Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Sea, is a distinctively spiritual and prayerful space. Dating back to 1180 the original chapel dedicated to Thomas of Canterbury became a parish church in the 14th century and a Cathedral in the 20th century. Covering south-east Hampshire, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, the Cathedral is the centre of a vibrant Christian community offering worship and mission.
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
Open spaces are integral to our quality of life as places to enjoy nature, sport and recreation, to gather and appreciate the benefits of being outdoors and for children to play in them. 91% of people in Portsmouth use their local parks or playgrounds and best of all, they are free to visit! Green spaces are not only important for health and wellbeing reasons, but also play an important part of the environment: to conserve the biodiversity of the natural plant life and species, and to help in mitigating the effects of climate change within the City of Portsmouth. The Victoria Park project sits within the Culture, Leisure & Regulatory Services Department of Portsmouth City Council, but has received independent funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore, improve, uncover and celebrate the park’s heritage and create a space for more people to enjoy and improve their wellbeing. Victoria Park, known as 'the People's Park' was opened in 1878 as a free open space in the heart of the new city centre.
What they offer:
- Volunteering
Visit the Portsmouth City Council website
Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) were introduced by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and were established in England and Wales in April 2000. They have primary responsibility for the provision of local youth justice services with the aim of preventing offending and re-offending by children and young people. The Portsmouth Youth Offending Team is a group of professionals commissioned by the local authority to support young people aged 10-17 who break the law. Some of our young people are subject to court orders that require them to engage with reparation work within the local community. Reparation is a way a young person can assist a social enterprise, charity, school, local resident and other services by repairing the damage that they have caused due to their actions. This can be in the form of painting, baking, coaching, gardening, cleaning and much more... The Portsmouth Youth Offending Team are looking for volunteers to assist our young people in completing their reparation tasks. Our volunteers are highly trained individuals that form positive relationships with our young people, and can encourage them to engage with their local community and equally give them a chance to become a positive role model themselves.
What they offer:
- Volunteering
Portsmouth Climate Action Board want our city to be at the forefront of the evolution that the climate emergency demands of us. That means transforming the way we do business, shop, travel, grow our food and power our homes. Discover who we are and how we can get there together.
Portsmouth Climate Action (PCA) helps local residents and organisations better understand the danger of burning fossil fuels, and the many benefits of reducing our emissions. The organisation partners with local community groups, schools, the University and businesses to lower their carbon footprint and create a greener, healthier, more prosperous city.
What they offer:
- Volunteering
Visit the Portsmouth Climate Action website
Get your skates on this festive season, when Portsmouth's Guildhall Square is transformed into a winter wonderland. Portsmouth On Ice will see a real, 646sq m ice rink installed in Guildhall Square - big enough for 200 skaters per session. We will have a bar onsite.
What they offer
- Part-time jobs
Portsmouth’s Play Youth and Community (PYC) Service is part of Portsmouth City Council’s Housing, Neighbourhood and Buildings Directorate. We are committed to supporting children, young people, and families across the city through inclusive, open-access services.
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
Portsmouth became a member of the Football League in 1920. The club has won the top division in England on two occasions (1949 and 1950). They have also won the FA Cup twice (1939 and 2008). In the 2000s, the club has been close to bankruptcy, but economically saved when the Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov took over the club in 2011. Two of the most known players in the team during the years are Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouch.
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
We take pride in our stewardship of the buildings and spaces within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and at Priddy’s Hard in Gosport, as well as the historic vessels in our collection. Our role extends beyond mere physical preservation; we are the custodians of their stories. Our position is unique, entrusted with the care and preservation of the buildings and spaces linked to the Royal Navy around Portsmouth Harbour. This responsibility is not just our priority but our passion.
What they offer:
- Volunteering Opportunity
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and is ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation continuously striving to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire.
What they offer:
- Volunteering Opportunity
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RGIS is a global organisation and the market leader in inventory solutions. We provide inventory and stock taking services to a wide range of retail customers. We deal with some of the largest names on the high street and we are looking to recruit motivated, positive people who enjoy physical work and can commit to flexible work patterns.
What they offer
- Part-time jobs
We are an organisation with a reputation for developing innovative responses to people who are struggling to improve their family’s difficult circumstances whether from homelessness or family breakdown. We work with families, children, young people and vulnerable adults.
What we offer
- Volunteering opportunities
Visit the Roberts Centre website
The Volunteer Cadet Corps (VCC) was formed on 14 February 1901 as the Royal Marines Artillery Cadet Corps at Eastney Barracks to ‘painfully occupy the spare time of sons of senior Non-Commissioned Officers’ after the Colonel’s office window was broken by a ball. Since then, the VCC has expanded to include Royal Navy cadet units, welcomed girls and now has 11 units, including 2 bands. The VCC is a MOD sponsored youth organisation and part of the Royal Navy’s Cadet Forces and is unique in being solely based in a number of Naval establishments. We are managed and run by unpaid volunteer staff. We are open to young people between the ages of 9 and 18, and we aim to help develop them into dependable and reliable members of society by using the traditions, standards and ethos of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
What we offer
- Volunteering opportunities
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Spark Community Space is a warm, welcoming charity based in Fratton, Portsmouth. We support people facing loneliness and isolation through our community hub, donation-based café, and charity shop, having evolved from online coffee mornings. Spark began as a lifeline for our founder after a life-changing brain injury – and has now become a thriving space where everyone belongs.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
Spurgeons is a national Children’s charity. The Invisible Walls Family Support Service aims to support families of offenders serving sentences in Hampshire. As part of this work we are providing a "wrap around” service during prison visits at HMP/YOI Winchester. This will provide families with a warm welcome, refreshments, advice and support during a stressful time.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
Summerley Recruitment are a specialist Hospitality & Catering agency based in Chichester who provide temporary work to students for event like Weddings, Music Festivals, Sporting Events, Christmas parties, as well as hotels and restaurants. We supply the following type of staff: bartenders, waiting staff, baristas, till staff,kitchen porters.
What they offer:
- Part-time work
The Sustainable Conservation Trust is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and use of historic structures. It was founded in 2020 by a collective of architects, experts and professionals working in heritage environments who see themselves as proactive advocates of heritage – promoting, educating, and campaigning to protect it. The SCT aims to present a practical, unified approach to facilitating the regeneration and meaningful redevelopment of heritage assets that can in turn benefit community, creatives and non-profit organisations. There are many beautiful unused historical buildings around us; equally, every community knows what it needs. It is SCT’s mission that no community feels bereft or frustrated that a wonderful historic building lies unused while their need for space is unmet.
What they offer:
- Volunteering roles
Sue Ryder is one of the largest charity retailers in the UK with over 400 shops. Every item sold in our shops generates funding so we can continue to provide 2.7 million hours of expert medical, practical, bereavement and emotional support every year, in our hospices, in people's homes and in the community. We are here to make sure that everyone approaching the end of life or living with grief can access the support they need. Sue Ryder places huge value on the diversity that we have within our team of volunteers and supporters. *Winners of the Employer of the Year for the People in Retail Awards 2023 – Retail Bulletin*
What they offer:
- Volunteering roles
Our mission is to deliver a range of innovative programmes with a view to making Portsmouth the number one UK city in which to invest, live, learn, work, and visit. We bridge the gap between local education, business, and community sectors to deliver projects focused on economic growth, education improvement, and community support. Aiming to create a vibrant, inclusive city by fostering partnerships and volunteering, with a focus on delivering long-term, sustainable improvements for Portsmouth.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
Solent Mind is part of a network of over 100 Local Minds who tailor trusted mental health services to our communities. We set our own strategies, partnerships and rely on the support of our brilliant local fundraisers. We collaborate with Mind to make sure their pioneering campaigns, information and research makes a difference in Hampshire. Together, we make better mental health possible both locally and nationally. Our vision is for a world where everyone experiencing a mental health issue receives support and respect. Our mission is to make sure anyone in our community experiencing a mental health issue has somewhere to turn to for advice, information and support.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
Southsea Skatepark is one of the UK’s oldest and most iconic outdoor skateparks. The charity was formed to protect, maintain, and develop the skatepark for future generations—supporting wheeled‑sports users of all ages, including skateboarders, scooter riders, BMX riders, quad skaters and more. As a community‑driven organisation, we aim to provide a safe, inclusive, and positive place for young people and adults to be active, social, and creative.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
Made Smarter is a UK Government Business and Trade Project. As a digital technology intern, you’ll be working on an exciting live project integrating new technologies into a manufacturing or engineering business. This is a paid role, offering you the opportunity to work for a top maker, and be given the chance to test out all your skills and knowledge gained at university. Plus, the placement will be tailored to align with your own career interests and needs.
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
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Hygiene poverty is not being able to afford many of the everyday hygiene and personal grooming products most of us take for granted, like shampoo, laundry detergent, tampons, nappies or toothpaste. At The Hygiene Bank, we believe it is not right that feeling clean should be a luxury or a privilege for anyone in our society, yet 4.2 million adults in the UK are living in hygiene poverty and cannot afford to stay clean. That is why our network of projects exists – to give people access to the basics they need.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
Toucan Diversity Training was set up in 2013, as a Social Enterprise. We deliver Equality and Diversity Training, with a focus on Disability. All our trainers have direct experience of the issues they discuss. Our sessions are interactive, using different training methods such as group discussions and questionnaires. The aim of the training is to raise awareness of the obstacles that people face, in order to achieve better inclusion of the most disadvantaged groups in our society.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
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The University of Portsmouth Students’ Union is a vibrant, forward thinking organisation with a vision of "delivering a positive impact with every Portsmouth student”. As a charity led by its values and guided by its students, the Union provides wide-ranging services and activities for the 20,000 + students of the University of Portsmouth. The Union is based in the centre of Portsmouth, employing approximately 35 career staff and a further 35 student staff. The organisation also works with over 1000 registered student volunteers and over 100 student groups.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
The ambassador scheme offers undergraduate and postgraduate students the chance to represent the University at both on-campus and off-campus events. You’ll be involved in things like open days, campus tours, higher education fairs, and school workshops. The scheme helps inspire others to explore higher education and consider studying at the University of Portsmouth. As a University Ambassador, you’ll be a positive role model and a key part of this work.
What they offer:
- Part-time work
The Reading Scheme is a volunteer project that is based in local primary schools, where you can volunteer for an hour (or more) a week helping school children from reception to year 6 develop their reading skills. You may also have the opportunity to help with other tasks like providing teaching assistant support, helping with after-school clubs, and on school trips (look at the details on the individual school's role description to find out more).
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
The Chaplaincy is a safe and inclusive social space, open to all students and staff, regardless of values and beliefs. Our facilities include: The Sanctuary – a quiet multi-faith room for reflection, stillness and personal prayer; Confidential support to all students and staff – one-to-one chats with one of our chaplains are available, via telephone, remote video call or face to face and can be booked via email or telephone. Drop-in’s are also possible.; Muslim prayer rooms – available in the Nuffield and Mercantile Buildings with ablution facilities for Muslim staff and students, and separate ablution facilities for Brothers and Sisters; Information – we have a small library of books, magazines and information about other support services and local places of worship; Social Space - The Chaplaincy space is a relaxing, chill out zone, open daily during normal university working hours, and serving free tea and coffee. We also hold events such as our Paint a Mug week for Freshers. The space is also used as a venue in the evenings, for student and staff groups and societies to get together.
What they offer:
- Volunteering opportunities
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V.L.A.D. Outreach CIC is a community-led organisation providing accessible and inclusive mental health support to vulnerable and marginalised individuals. One of its key branches focuses on the gaming community, creating safe, welcoming online environments where people can connect, play, and find support. Understanding that traditional mental health services are not always accessible, V.L.A.D. Outreach CIC offers tailored therapeutic interventions specifically for gamers. Through virtual outreach, we are developing safe therapeutic spaces within platforms like Minecraft and Roblox—integrated with Discord and Twitch—to help reduce stigma, build resilience, provide therapeutic engagement and ensure that no one feels alone, whether online or offline.
What they offer
- Volunteering roles
Vespasian has a wealth of knowledge and operational experience in a range of security sectors. The introduction and use of innovative technologies across our services is at the forefront of our pledge to be professional, effective and accountable at all times.
What they offer:
- Part-time work
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Whitbread PL is a leading hospitatlity business and the owner of Premier Inn, the Uk's biggest hotel brand
What they offer:
- Part-time jobs
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