Passionate about making a positive change in the world?
Whatever your interests, a range of organisations will be on campus to talk to you about their volunteering opportunities. Through volunteering you can meet new people, discover new talents, have fun, build your confidence, and feel good about yourself.
Advance your Career through Volunteering!
Build your professional network, aquire hands on experience and an indepth knowledge of the not-for-profit sector, while developing practical skills within an issue driven organisation. Use this opportunity to gain work experience locally to move onwards and upwards in your Career! Connect with organisations who seek to make a social difference and explore the diverse range of potential career paths and opportunities available.
Need a little time to focus on you?
Try one of our free tasty energy balls (while stocks last) and enjoy some time out from your studies while soaking up the ambience of the fair. There will be music, colurful decor, and most importantly, photo ops!
Come along and chat with some wellbeing organisations to hear their top tips and explore some supportive tools and resources. Link with SU and internal services and discover what they provide and how it can benefit you. For example, our new Drug and Alcohol Harm Reduction programme has lots of useful info or you can link in with staff from QUB Wellbeing and Accesible Learning Support to find out the wide range of support available on campus.
We are big advocates of the many ways you achieve mindfulness, including through craft. You can try this out as we have planned a lovely Silk Art Painting workshop as part of the fair. Book the crafting workshop using this link - Sign up for Silk Art Painting Workshop Here
The workshop will be held outside Mandela Hall, in the foyer.
Free lunch and evaluation prize draw
There will be a free lunch available for fair participants* and there is a prize draw for anyone who completes our quick evaluation at the end of the fair.
* While stocks stocks last.
How to sign up
Please book your place at the fair through Eventbrite, using your Queen's email address. You can arrive at the fair anytime between 1 pm and 3pm (last entry 2:30pm, fair closes at 3.00pm) at Mandela Hall, Queen's Students' Union, One Elmwood. Please bring your student ID card.
Students and staff are both welcome!
Quiet Half Hour
A Quiet Half Hour is available from 12.30-1pm, designed to support students with varying levels of mobility, hearing, or vision, and/or sensitivity to sound and crowds. The Quiet Half Hour is from 12.30-1pm, and numbers are capped, so please register below if you would like to attend during the Quiet Half Hour.
Register for Quiet Half Hour Here
From 1pm the event will open to all attendees on a drop-in basis.
