Volunteer

BRLSI welcomes volunteers with a variety of different skills and interests. There is a friendly and welcoming team of volunteers, most generally signing up for a 3 hour shift each week.

If you would like to become a BRLSI volunteer, just drop by 16 Queen Square and complete a short volunteer form. Someone will then contact you and assist in signing you up for a vacant slot. There are currently 3 shifts: Morning 10am to 1pm, Afternoon 1pm to 4pm, and Evening (typically 5pm to 8pm but this can vary).

Volunteers are vital to the work of the BRLSI. Those who help at the front desk will be answering questions from members of public, accepting deliveries, taking bookings, and ensuring that information about our many talks and exhibitions is available.

Each year there is a volunteers party and other social occasions such as receptions to which volunteers are invited.

Betty Suchar
BRLSI Chair of Management

Did you know...

Livingstone, I tree-sume?

Amongst our deadly souvenirs is a souvenir piece from the tree under which the explorer David Livingstone's heart is buried.

Curatorial Curiosities

Canadian birch-bark container

Made from birch-bark with blue and red dyed porcupine quill embroidery (the blue colouration has faded), the craftsmanship of this item is superb. The person who made this container was either a Métis or First Nations aboriginal Canadian of Red River Colony, Manitoba, Canada.