Volunteer at Jamyang Buddhist Centre London
Start your volunteering adventure with Jamyang Buddhist Centre as part of our kind-hearted community
Audio Visual Resident Volunteer
We’re currently on the look out for a new Audio/ Visual team member to join our resident volunteer program.
This role supports the smooth running of our in-person, online, and hybrid teachings and events, helping ensure that students, teachers, and facilitators can connect reliably across spaces and platforms.
Working closely with the Education team and Geshe Namdak, the wider team, and fellow volunteers, the AV volunteer looks after sound, cameras, projection, livestreaming, recordings, and video editing, as well as calmly troubleshooting live sessions when needed. Accommodation, meals, travel support, and access to all Jamyang courses and events are provided, making this a rare opportunity to offer skilled service while living, studying, and practising as part of the life of the centre.
Jamyang is a local Dharma centre with a genuinely global reach. Alongside welcoming people through our doors in London for classes, community events, and visiting teachers, we share the Dharma widely through online and hybrid delivery. Teachings are streamed via Zoom and YouTube, with long-term study programmes such as Discovering Buddhism, Exploring Buddhism, and the Basic Programme reaching students across the UK and around the world. The Audio-Visual Volunteer plays a vital role in making this possible, supporting the technical delivery that allows teachings to be received clearly, reliably, and with care. The role also offers rare opportunities to work closely on lama visits, livestreamed events, visiting teachers, and community gatherings, helping ensure that the Dharma is accessible beyond physical walls and shared with people wherever they are.
- Some hands-on experience with sound, video, or AV equipment for live or hybrid events
- Confidence working with microphones, speakers, cameras, screens, and basic mixing or switching
- A calm, practical approach to problem-solving when things need adjusting during live sessions
- Comfort working with cables, connections, and the general flow of audio and video signals
- Clear spoken English, with the ability to explain technical matters in a simple, friendly way
Karma Yogi Resident Volunteer
We’re warmly welcoming applications for our residential volunteer programme — Karma Yogis — for the whole of 2026. This is an opportunity to live at the centre for an initial three months, offering service as part of the daily life of Jamyang. Karma Yogis support the running of the centre and the guesthouse, help care for the space, and take part in the shared rhythm of study, practice, and community life.
Alongside service, residents are able to attend classes, community events, and study with Geshe Namdak. For many, this period of living and practising together becomes a deeply formative and life-changing experience. If you feel drawn to offering your time and energy in this way, we’d love to hear from you.
Jamyang Buddhist Centre London is a place of study, practice, and community, sustained day by day through the generosity and service of its residential volunteers. Karma Yogis are at the heart of the centre’s life, supporting the smooth running of daily activities and helping care for the shared spaces that welcome students, teachers, guests, and visitors. This service can include setting up for pujas and classes, assisting with hospitality and the guesthouse, welcoming people at the front desk, supporting the café, and contributing to general housekeeping and upkeep.
Alongside practical work, Karma Yogis live as part of a small residential community, sharing meals, attending teachings, and participating in the collective rhythm of study, practice, and service. For many, this is an extraordinary opportunity to offer meaningful service while deepening their connection to the Dharma and to community life.
If you’re interested in residential volunteering, we’d love to hear from you.
What is a ‘Karma Yogi Residential Volunteer’?
Offering service is a beautiful way to incorporate Spiritual Practice into your everyday life. A residential volunteer creates merit by offering service as daily work at Jamyang. The best way to understand the role of a residential volunteer is as someone who performs selfless actions to benefit others.
Why Volunteer?
Jamyang thrives because of its dedicated team of volunteers. Our many activities and projects depend on the skills, time and service of that volunteering. In turn, Jamyang offers an immersive live-in experience to be part of a Buddhist community in central London, attend Dharma classes and provides conducive conditions for practice.
Who are we looking for?
We welcome applications from all people, from those who have offered service before and are long-time practitioners to those just taking their first steps on the Buddhist path while discovering and learning. Our approach encompasses our Equality, Inclusivity and Diversity efforts, and the main requirement for all applicants is a kind heart.
Volunteering and Living Ethically
At Jamyang we are a mixed community of monastics (ordained Buddhist sangha) and lay people (those who have not taken monastic vows). To support a harmonious living community for all, our volunteers all agree to live by the five Mahayana Precepts whilst living and offering service.
The Mahayana Precepts
- Preserve life. This includes the lives of our smallest, most abundant, and at times, most difficult insects.
- Respect other people’s property accepting only what is offered.
- Speak only what is true. Dishonesty, gossip and divisive speech create disharmony.
- Protect the integrity of others by refraining from sexual activity
- Cultivate clarity and concentration of the mind by abstaining from intoxicants and mind-altering substances including, drugs, alcohol, vapes and cigarettes.
Volunteering at Jamyang Buddhist Centre
Our residential volunteers all commit to a three-month volunteering period, offering service for 35 hours per week. This enables everyone to get the most from experience, put their skills to good use, strengthen their Spiritual practice and become part of the Jamyang community.
Residential volunteers share a core role that supports the everyday life of the centre. This includes caring for shared spaces, supporting the guesthouse, welcoming visitors at the front desk, and contributing to practical tasks such as cleaning, light maintenance, cooking, and gardening.
This work is at the heart of what allows the centre to function as a place of meditation, study, and community. Volunteers are supported to approach these tasks with care, presence, and a spirit of shared responsibility.
Applying from outside the UK
The UK’s visa guidance has changed in recent years, as a general guide please view the information below, this is not a comprehensive overview and any applicant will need to have knowledge of their own visa status and needs before applying.
European Union, EEA and Switzerland
Volunteers from these regions can stay in the UK and volunteer for up to 6 months without any additional visa needs. We welcome applications from these regions.
People applying from outside of the EU, EEA or Switzerland
Applicants from any other region would need to be supported with a volunteer certificate of sponsorship. As this requires additional administrative logistics and financial resources from both the organisation and the applicant, please highlight this on your application form
