Students and Volunteers

Contact us:
t: 0121 440 8273
e: richardmole@bcat.info

What can BCAT offer to students and volunteers?

  • opportunity to join our Volunteer Development Programme (VDP)
  • work experience placements within community arts projects
  • paid facilitator sessional work (depending on experience)
  • work experience within BCAT's offices
  • fundraising and project experience 
  • a resource centre, library and teaching establishment for the training, education and support of professionals and carers
  •  regular professional supervision
  • events and training courses for all those interested in arts therapies and arts in health​

BCAT's Volunteer Development Programme

​Our Volunteer Development Programme  is designed to bring together people with an interest in Arts Therapies and Arts in Health, who are willing to offer their time for office based work and/or placements in a variety of organisations within the community. Volunteers on our Volunteer Development Programme can be involved in providing music, art, drama, play and dance sessions to groups of children and adults within schools, day centres and other community settings. 

Our volunteer programme enables those with an interest in delivering community arts to shadow more experienced arts in health facilitators on community placements, that could potentially lead to running your own paid sessions once confident enough to do so. BCAT will support you all the way through scheduled supervision sessions. 

The first step is to join us at one of BCAT's  monthly Open Evening's on the first Wednesday of each month from 5pm - 6pm (except January and August).

Who can join?

  • students studying for arts degrees
  • those interested in arts based communty work
  • practising artistes
  • students on arts therapies placements
  • professional arts in health workers

Liz Beech - previous volunteer & now BCAT staff

"I came to BCAT because of it's reputation. As someone who is looking to study to become a drama therapist it is really important to understand the reality of being a therapist.

I have a BTEC in performing arts and a degree in film/TV and production and a post grad degree in TV producing. At the moment I have 8 years of being a restaurant manager!

I want to be a dramatherapist and am studying for a masters in Derby. BCAT is the perfect place for me to get excellent work experience and I love it!"
“Dance Movement therapy has enabled our children to fly in a world where they are supposed to be unable to fly.” 
Parents of a group of 16 year old with Downs Syndrome