Volunteering with Limestone Journeys
Volunteering can be a route to employment, a chance to try something new and to join in the fun in your local area!
- Gain new skills, knowledge and experience
- Enhancing a CV
- Improve employment prospects
- Gain a qualification
- A chance to socialise
- Get to know the local community
At Limestone Journeys we have a wide variety of volunteering opportunities available ranging from getting outdoors and getting your hands dirty tree felling, hedge planting or hedge laying or perhaps you would rather help out in the Scheme Office or assist in the delivery of events, whatever you would like to do there is a Limestone Journeys experience for you!
SEE BELOW FOR OUR LATEST VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES
YOUR HIDDEN HERITAGE
Join the local groups in your area and find the heritage you never knew was there! The Your Hidden Heritage project involves local people in the survey and recording of the built heritage of their area.
Dates: Volunteering opportunities in April 2012
Area: Whitwell, Bolsover and Pleasley Vale
Contact: Emma Hancock, Your Hidden Heritage Project Leader
email Emma or phone 01909 720378
Mining Memories
This project will capture memories from a time when mining was the dominant industry. Training will be offered for volunteers to record oral histories from members of the local community.
Dates: Places currently full - further opportunities available summer 2012
Area: Volunteers based at Crewell Crags
Contact: Maria Smith, Learning Officer (Collections), Creswell Crags
info@creswell-crags.org.uk or call 01909 720378
Community Archaeological Investigation
This project is a unique opportunity to explore and record the local landscape. Volunteers will receive training on archaeological survey techniques and develop public outreach and interpretation from their research.
Dates: Places currently full - further opportunities available summer 2012
Area: Creswell Crags, Elmton and Whitwell
Contact: Maria Smith, Learning Officer (Collections), Creswell Crags
info@creswell-crags.org.uk or call 01909 720378
Securing the Past
This project will preserve and digitise oral history archives held by local history societies. Volunteers will be trained in order to expand the digitisation to other groups in the area, generating a comprehensive digital archive.
Dates: Places currently full - further opportunities available summer 2012
Area: Volunteers based at Creswell Crags
Contact: Maria Smith, Learning Officer (Collections), Creswell Crags
info@creswell-crags.org.uk or call 01909 720378
Accessible Landscape
There are two types of volunteering opportunities to choose from through this programme of activity.Training will be given on surveying the existing rights of way network in the Limestone Journeys area, participants will be given everything they need to independently go and survey specific areas they are interested in. Also volunteers will have the opportunity to carry out practical improvement projects to help improve the network.
Dates: Volunteering opportunities in spring/summer 2012
Area: Limestone Journeys Scheme Area
Contact: Andy Heath, Bolsover Countryside Partnership Manager
email andy.heath@derbyshire.gov.uk or call 01629 533020
Make It, Mend It
Skilled crafts people will teach an extensive programme of particular skills to members of the community, relating directly to the local environment.
Dates: Volunteer/participant opportunities 16 June 2012
Area: Pleasley Vale and Creswell Crags
Contact: Aly Stoneman, Junction Arts Project Coordinator
email info@junctionarts.org or call 01623 746222
Custodians
Public lecture series with an emphasis on future management of the fragile landscape, offering an introduction to the Magnesium Limestone area and discussing the possibility of another Ice Age!
Dates: Volunteer opportunities to assist with events July to September 2012
Area: To be confirmed - probably Doe Lea
Contact: Aly Stoneman, Junction Arts Project Coordinator
email info@junctionarts.org or call 01623 746222
Strands
A series of workshops with an emphasis on textiles or a local craft skill. This project will offer an opportunity for local people to become community leaders for skill sharing events.
Dates: Volunteer/participant opportunities later in the year
Area: To be confirmed
Contact: Aly Stoneman, Junction Arts Project Coordinator
email info@junctionarts.org or call 01623 746222