National
Trust demonstrate how volunteering really can secure you paid work in this
sector, they profile several people including Jane Lancaster who is now a Coast
& Community Ranger after a 20 year career in banking. Through a Volunteer
Internship Programme
RSPB have
successfully trained people they then go on to employ, a great way of ensuring
your staff has the skills you want.
North
Ayrshire Council has started to run an Apprenticeship programme which
trains participants up for a year. Feedback from staff has been largely
positive; one staff member stating that the training process has encouraged
them to refresh knowledge & therefore benefitted their own CPD. iRecord is
run by the
Biological Records Centre,
we put together a short article about some recent developments for iRecord and
the benefits science of this form of data gathering. Conservation workdays are
a fun way to get outdoors and meet new people but did you know they can
actually help you gain paid employment in the countryside sector? Jackie Kemp describes
his journey from volunteer to Seasonal Project Leader with the
National Trust for Scotland. In 2012
the
Land Trust wanted to improve
Liverpool Festival Gardens and boost the park’s group of volunteers; they
created the Green Angels scheme, which has gone from strength to strength and
has shown that tailored schemes can really make a difference to a specific area
and its people.
Read it here
