Twilight Volunteer Zookeeper (full time work experience) - Chester Zoo
(2025-09 - 2026-08)
- Food preparation including produce, browse, live food and meat
- Animal feeding
- Cleaning of visitor, keeper and animal areas
- Creation, modification, upkeep and dismantling of enclosures
- Aiding in catching and moving animals for enclosure upkeep, and health checks
- Helping carry out health checks
- Using tools including pressure washers
- Creation and modification of nest boxes
- Handling animals
- Weeding
- Working animal slides
- Working on the logistics team
- Moving animals from different parts of enclosures to others
Minister of Stories - Monster Supply Shop
(2024-10 - 2025-09)
- Made children feel supported
- Supported children is developing creative writing skills
- Aided children in creative writing
- Encouraged children to enjoy writing, reading and listening to stories
Member - Toastmasters
(2024-10 - 2025-09)
- Learning to improvise short speeches
- Learning to prepare longer speeches
- Learning how to speak more clearly and better convey what I want to say to large groups
Lemur Steward Volunteer - Howletts Wild Animal Park
(2024-09 - 2025-06)
- Food preparation and lemur feeding
- Enclosure upkeep: cleaning, checking electric fence, vegetation maintenance
- Visitor engagement and management within a lemur walkthrough
Visitor Welcome Volunteer - ZSL London Zoo
(2021-07 - 2022-07)
Role undertaken between Jul 2021 – Jul 2022 and Sept 2024- Sept 2025
- Visitor education about animals in several enclosures
- Visitor assistance: locating different enclosures and facilities around the zoo, aiding visitors inside the walkthroughs
- Queue management outside busy enclosures
Predators and Primates Volunteer Keeper - ZSL London Zoo
(2024-08 - 2025-09)
- Food preparation including produce, browse and live food
- Animal feeding for primates and predators
- Creation and implementation of animal enrichment
- Cleaning of visitor, keeper and animal areas
- Creation, modification, upkeep and dismantling of enclosures
Junior Waiter - Bellanger
(2022-07 - 2024-09)
- Serving food to customers
- Responding to customer queries regarding dishes
- Handling customer complaints and problems
- Working in a team environment
- Working within Health & Safety guidelines
- Ensuring guests are served in a timely fashion
Small Mammal Volunteer Keeper - ZSL London Zoo
(2022-06 - 2026-09)
- Food preparation including, produce browse and live food
- Animal feeding for all animals of section
- Creation and implementation of animal enrichment
- Cleaning of visitor, keeper and animal areas
- Creation, modification, upkeep and dismantling of enclosures
- Being a Lemur steward
- Observing and recording animal behaviours
- Aiding with training of lemurs going into crush cages and weighing
Seasonal Sales Assistant - Admissions London Zoo
(2022-08 - 2022-06)
- Checking and scanning tickets
- Selling tickets for visitors
- Upselling guidebooks
- Directing people to the enclosure they wish to see
- Aiding people if they have bought the wrong ticket or need to update or get membership
Customer Service Assistant - Vue Westfield White City
(2022-01 - 2022-07)
- Upselling products and working the till on concessions
- Scanning tickets and directing people at the gate
- Cleaning the corridors foyer and screens
- Providing screen checks
- Helping customers with problems
Small Mammals, Primates and Birds Zookeeper (full-time work experience) - Cotswold Wildlife Park
(2021-10)
- Food preparation including produce, meat and feat
- Animal feeding animals on section
- Cleaning of visitor, keeper and animal areas
- Planned, implemented and evaluated animal enrichment
- Paddock maintenance
Multiple visitor and animal-facing roles - Bambelela (Vervet monkey rehabilitation sanctuary, South Africa) - South Africa
(2021-07)
- Preparing food and feeding the orphaned and injured monkeys
- Clean the enclosure, equipment and feed the sable antelope and monkeys
- Learnt how to care for, raise and reintroduce injured or orphaned monkeys back to the wild in mature troupes
- Educating visitors about monkeys and their threats while taking them around the sanctuary
