All of our member organisations run with the support of volunteers in all kinds of roles.

These roles, depending on the organisation, range from customer or visitor-facing roles to historical research, curatorial roles, buildings maintenance, finance, administration, public relations, and so on.

If you would like to explore volunteering opportunities for the heritage sector in Swale, we suggest that you contact the individual organisation from their contact details on this web site.

In addition, the Swale Community & Volunteer Service should be able to supply information - https://www.swalecvs.org.uk/   01795 473828

Anglo Saxon Cemetery

In 2008, and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery was discovered at The Meads in Sittingbourne and 227 graves were excavated. The majority of the graves contained grave goods; over 2500 objects, including weapons, dress accessories, knives and vessels. Some of the graves contained considerable numbers of objects, including several rich weapon burials (almost certainly those of men) and three, female gendered, burials with garnet-inlaid brooches, including a plated disc brooch. Many of the graves contained sets of glass, amber or amethyst beads; there were over 300 glass beads in one grave alone.

If you want to know more about Kent or Swale, such as where to stay, where to eat, other attractions, and how to get here, these two sites will help you!

You might also be interested in:

Belmont House, Throwley

Provender House, Norton

Bredgar History Society

Borden Heritage Group

Newington History Group

Lynsted with Kingsdown Society

Sheppey Local History Society

Dockyard Church, Bluetown, Sheerness

Mount Ephraim

Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway

CSI Sittingbourne, The Forum

        Chart Gunpowder Mills

Vacancies

Required a volunteer to manage Historic Swale's social media prescence.

Working from home, the volunteer will liase closely with Chairman and the web site manager.

Regular updates several times a month and at least every week will be needed.

The candidate will be a good communicator who can stay in touch with representatives of member organisations in order to generate interesting content for  posts.

Candidates should apply to the chairman.

If you require more information, please get in touch:

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