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It takes a great many people to make Great Tower work
as effectively as it does and with around 300 volunteers on our
register at any one time, we are very proud of each and every one of
them. Occasionally paid staff opportunities crop up but they are
few and far between. These paid opportunities are listed below:
West
Lancashire County Scout Council
Appointment of Trainee Warden at Great Tower Scout Activity Centre
(Young Apprentice Scheme)
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a dedicated individual to
take on the above post at one of Britain’s best loved Scout Activity
Centres in the glorious Lake District National Park commencing on
1st August 2008 for 3 years
The prime objectives of the post are to help the Warden to ensure
the facilities and site are safe and ready for use when required.
The post is based at Great Tower, weekend working is an essential
part of the post and a flexible attitude to working averaging 45
hours per week will be required.
Previous Scouting/Guiding experience and a current driving license
are required and activity and First Aid qualifications would be an
advantage.
To fit with the Young Apprenticeship scheme, the successful
applicant would ideally be over 17 and a half but under 20 years old
on the 1st August 2008
For further information and a detailed job description, please
request an application pack from the Administrative Officer at the
address below or e-mail
countyoffice@westlancashirescouts.org.uk requesting a pack.
Closing date for applications is close of business on Sunday 20th
July 2008
County Scout Office
Waddecar Scout Activity Centre
Snape Rake Lane
Goosnargh
Lancashire
PR3 2EU
Summer Staff
Download Application Form Here
Download
Summer
Staff Handbook
Each summer, we have a dedicated team of people to assist running
the centre with an extremely varied job list covering toilet
cleaning, serving in the shop, looking after our visitors,
organising evening entertainment and much more. Most of our summer
staff are in the explorer scout age range and come from either
Scouting or Guiding backgrounds however, older people are more than
welcome and fit in to this scheme pretty well. We offer free
accommodation and food and for those staying for more than 10 days,
a free "Summer Staff 2008" embroidered neckerchief.
To reserve your place, download the
form, read all
about it and send it off to our booking office where we'll allocate
you a space and reply with a full information pack.
We also have a limited number of paid places on summer staff, use
the same form and express an interest in being considered for a paid
role if you wish.
Voluntary Wardens
Voluntary Wardens are normally, but not exclusively, married couples
where either or both of them hold other Scouting appointments. They
take their turn on an annual rota to man the reception area at
Great Tower, normally covering weekends but some also cover mid-week
periods at Easter, Spring Bank Holiday and the Summer season. Duties
involve welcoming arrivals and booking them in, running the on-site
shop, taking telephone enquiries & bookings, answering campers
queries, settling accounts and anything else which occurs.
Voluntary Wardens are the main customer facing team within our
operation and our reputation for being friendly and helpful lies
very much in their hands. Although this is an onerous task,
voluntary wardens receive a great deal of support from our Camp Site
Manager, Principal Officer and other volunteers such as Service
Teams so they are never on their own.
Service Teams
Service Teams are groups of people from age 14 upwards and vary from
teams of Explorer Scouts, Ranger Guides to older members as Scout
Fellowships, Teams of Leaders who want to give the odd weekend of
service to Great Tower.
Service Teams stay in the Roost on-site for the weekend
of their duty and work with the Camp Site Manager to
undertake both some of the usual day to day jobs such as keeping the
toilet blocks clean & tidy, managing our recycling station, clearing
drains etc and also more exciting project work either developing
new attractions or maintaining existing ones. Service Teams cover
the number of weekends appropriate to their available time, some
doing 2 or 3 weekends per year, others doing just the one. Teams
usually come as their unit name and the members can and do change each time
they visit,
Service Crew
The Service Crew is based at
Waddecar but also services Great Tower.
Generally, Service Crew members are recruited from other teams of
people who have already given good service to Waddecar or Great
Tower, either
through being a Service Team member or coming by recommendation
through existing Crew members. Being a Crew member requires
considerable commitment of a minimum of 2 weekends every "rota
period" of 3 or 4 months. The Crew is an organisation in its own
right and also has its own social programme. The Crew operate under
a training scheme and afford a higher level of responsibility,
driving the tractor, assisting campers, running activity sessions,
supervising service teams etc.
Ad-Hoc Help
We also have a number of people who help us in a variety of ways.
Normally older, retired people or younger people who don't really
fit into other categories. There are always a million and one ways
to help us out, whether it be maintaining activity equipment,
stocking the shop, helping out in the office, answering the phone,
planting trees, cutting grass etc, we're always looking for help
If you are interested in any of the above, please
contact us for further information and an
informal chat and we'll see how we can help each other. Great Tower is
certainly a fantastic place to volunteer, out in the countryside,
blue skies, hills, trees, plenty of wildlife and colleagues who are
friendly with a good sense of humour, nothing could be a finer way
of spending your spare time.
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