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Our Global Alumni Mentoring Scheme launched in March 2025 and we’re looking for more alumni to sign up as mentors! This is a great opportunity for our alumni to mentor students through a variety of professional and pastoral mentoring support options: from interview skills, career guidance and leadership, to confidence building, public speaking skills and moving to a new country. Mentoring a student is a fantastic way to utilise your skills and experience to support a current Â鶹ÊÓƵ student online across a six-month period.

If you are interested in being involved with our mentoring scheme, please email alumni.relations@leicester.ac.uk to register your interest.

The Alumni Awards Dinner is an annual opportunity for alumni to come together and celebrate University and alumni achievements, recognise our Alumni Award winners, and thank alumni for their valued contributions to business, research and society. Alumni are able to reminisce and network whilst enjoying a drinks reception, three-course meal, after dinner disco, our special guest speaker, as well as celebrating our Alumni Award winners. You can volunteer and make a nomination for our 2025 awards via our . Please read the Alumni Awards criteria and guidelines carefully before making your nomination.

We are always looking for alumni volunteers to support our graduation alumni engagement activity, whether this be on campus meeting the next generation of alumni during graduation week or by providing digital assets for alumni promotion and future marketing materials. Graduations take place each January and July over a number of days. We are also looking for volunteers to support our recruitment events during Open Days and Offer Holder Days. This may be as an event steward, delivering a workshop or sharing your memories of student life at Leicester. If you are interested in any of these, please contact us at alumni.relations@leicester.ac.uk for an informal chat.

Since launching the Festival of Change in October 2020, over 1,300 alumni from 28 countries have joined us for a Festival of Change event. With 91% of alumni saying that they would recommend the event to a friend, we want to let you know about our programme of exciting events we have coming up. Details subject to change. View our past events.

Festival of Change speakers

If as an alumni you have an exciting topic to speak about at one of our bi monthly online events, get in touch at alumni.events@leicester.ac.uk to discuss. 

Festival of Change hosts

If as an alumni you have experience as a host, chair or emcee or want to give hosting a go at one of our bi monthly online events, get in touch at alumni.events@leicester.ac.uk to discuss.

The Alumni in Residence programme brings talented alumni volunteers and final year Â鶹ÊÓƵ students together so that alumni can share their career experiences and advice. Through a combination of one-to-one appointments and small interactive networking sessions, the programme is designed to inspire students at the start of their career journeys, support their career development, build their commercial awareness and increase their confidence.

This is a one-off volunteering opportunity that runs at different points throughout the year (although you are welcome to sign up for further sessions). Time commitment is approximately 4 hours and can be completed virtually or in person. 

For more information about this programme and how to sign up please contact alumni.relations@leicester.ac.uk.

Have you faced challenges through your career and would like to share how you overcame these? After graduating did your career take a different path than planned? Could you give an inspiring talk to students about your career history? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we would love to hear from you! Our colleagues from across the University are often looking for alumni volunteers to speak with students, and share inspiring and motivational experiences with them. Involvement may include being part of a discussion panel, hosting a workshop or delivering a talk, with options available for in-person and virtual involvement. If you’re interested, please contact alumni.relations@le.ac.uk.

Deliver a presentation or workshop on your career and get the opportunity to meet motivated students who are keen to develop their skills to enhance their applications and prepare for life after university. There will also be a Q+A session after the presentation.

The time commitment is approximately one to two hours per talk and this can be completed virtually or in person.

Find more information and how to sign up

Attenborough Arts Centre is a socially and civically-engaged public cultural venue based at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, producing visual arts, live performance, learning, community and research programmes. Volunteers are important members of the Attenborough Arts Centre front of house team. They are people who share a love of the arts, giving their time to contribute to the continued success of the centre. 

The Centre is currently looking for Gallery Assistant Volunteers for their next exhibition. As an AAC Volunteer, you will be part of an organisation with decades of experience in providing performances, courses, workshops and activities for children and families. You would be a public face for the AAC, providing support and assistance within our gallery spaces. Ensuring our customers and visitors have a positive and enjoyable experience during their visit and aiding in their desire to return.

IntoUniversity provides local learning centres where young people are inspired to achieve. At each local centre IntoUniversity offers an innovative programme that supports young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to attain their chosen aspiration, including further and higher education, employment and work-based training. Leicester’s IntoUniversity centre is a collaborative partnership between IntoUniversity, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and De Montfort University.

Opportunities available include Academic Support Volunteers (open to all alumni) and University Student Mentoring (only open to alumni who have graduated within the last five years). Both volunteering opportunities are in-person and based at our local IntoUniveristy centre in Leicester.

To find out more information, please and email alumni.relations@leicester.ac.uk for more details about the Leicester opportunities.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ has partnered with the charity Governors for Schools to offer exciting and rewarding opportunities for alumni to apply to be school governors within Leicestershire and Rutland as well as the wider UK. School governors offer strategic guidance and work to challenge existing processes to drive school improvement. Governors for Schools offer great training and support to help you succeed in the role meaning that you don’t need to have prior experience of being on a board to apply.

. Or email alumni.relations@leicester.ac.uk if you would like a further chat about the role.

Our international alumni are part of a 200,000 wide community of former Â鶹ÊÓƵ students based in 197 countries globally. Our Alumni Chapters help us to create a powerful network of changemakers and citizens of change. Alumni are our biggest stakeholder group to the University and invaluable in supporting us succeed. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ is always looking to maintain a strong connection with our graduates and a global way of doing this is through Alumni Chapters and bringing Leicester to you!

What is an Alumni Chapter?

An Alumni Chapter is a social and/or professional networking group organised by and for Alumni. They help to bring Alumni in a specific geographical area together to participate in local activities and events in a fun and friendly environment. Chapter aims needed to align with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Strategic Plan.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ currently has Chapters in:

Benefits of joining a Chapter

• Networking opportunities - Chapters can be a great way of meeting those local to you and developing your connections, building both professional networks and lifelong friendships.
• Stay connected to the University - Chapters can keep you connected to your university and help you feel part of the institution by contributing to the university's strategic aims.
• Free membership - Being part of a Chapter is free and a membership that you can promote to your network.
• Give back and help others - Collaborate and support other members with projects they are working on or by just being a friendly face to bounce ideas off.
• Expand your skills - Committee roles always look good on a CV and can open up other opportunities.
• Exclusive events – Access or organise exclusive Chapter events such as lunches, drinks receptions or even sporting events where you can socialise, make friends and reminisce on your shared experience studying at the University.

What support can alumni networks expect from the University

We can commit to:

• Ensuring all Chapters have a dedicated point of contact at the University.
• Providing a toolkit which gives advice and support on the running of a Chapter and branded assets.
• Official recognition for your network and a presence on our website.
• Communicate to the alumni community on your behalf promoting any Chapter news, activities, and events.
• Support in sourcing alumni speakers for your events.

Joining an existing Chapter

If you would like to join one of our existing chapters, or start a new international Chapter please email alumni.relations@le.ac.uk. If you are unsure and would like more information, please get in touch and we can set up an informal chat.