Students
AAH Voluntary Work Fund
Applications for the Voluntary Work Fund are now open for 2010.
The AAH Voluntary Work Fund offers funding to UK-based undergraduate and postgraduate students on placements or internships within the UK. Individuals are entitled to up to £500 towards placement-related expenses such as accommodation, travel and food. The Voluntary Work Fund supports both full-time and part-time placements/ internships.
Voluntary Work Fund
Would you like to curate exhibitions?
Conserve paintings?
Run art auctions?
Or work in a picture library?
These are examples of internships that the Association of Art Historians funded last year. The voluntary work placement fund is available to assist AAH members with the costs of work experience placements to gain valuable experience. Whatever career in art history you are aiming for, voluntary work can really take you places, and the AAH can help.
- Where can I volunteer? We fund volunteering at museums, galleries, heritage sites or other visual arts environments. To get a list of museums and art galleries that welcome or are willing to consider student volunteers for internships or work placements email admin@aah.org.uk with your membership number. Both self-initiated placements and pre-arranged internships are eligible.
- When? The placement can last up to 6 weeks full-time (Monday-Friday) or up to 30 days part-time. It must start after the 30th of June 2010.
- What is covered by the funding? Legitimate expenses include daily travel, meals and accommodation, childcare and training and materials.*
- How much funding can I get? The maximum amount available per student is £500 for the whole placement.
- How do I apply? Download the full guidelines and an application form. or see the VWF page on our website.
Deadline: 31 May 2010. The fund is only available to AAH Members. If you are not a current AAH member, please join before submitting your application.
In the words of a previous recipient...
“Without the funding from AAH I would not have been able to benefit so greatly from the opportunities that I was offered in London and to feel such adrenalin course through my veins and for this I am very grateful for the chance to get stuck in and have this incredible insight and experience.” Tom Best, volunteer at Christie’s, London
If you have any queries regarding the AAH Voluntary Work Fund please contact admin@aah.org.uk
Voluntary Work Fund Reports and Feedback
Reports by students who have undertaken placements/internships that have been supported by the Voluntary Work Fund are published in Bulletin, which is now available to view online. See Bulletin 102 for reports from last year's competiion.