Hoswick Visitors Centre Volunteer

• Hoswick Visitors Centre

• VO59955

Volunteers taking up an opportunity to help in the Visitors Centre have a variety of activities to choose from:
Welcome visitors including visitors from coaches.
Do you have good local knowledge? Share it with visitors and advise on the visitors information resources.
Help in the Café.
Help provide an enjoyable experience for 12,000 visitors coming to the centre annually. Local people mingle with visitors, browsing the visitors' information or the Shetland crafts on sale and the displays of local heritage

Experience required

With a range of tasks from which volunteers can choose to help with, the skills and experience would depend on that choice. Good communication skills.

Travel details

Hoswick Visitors Centre.
South Mainland has a good bus service which has a convenient stop a five minute walk from the Visitors Centre.

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Support

Training details

Familiarisation with the business and its aims together with training as appropriate for the volunteer's chosen activity.
Food Hygiene if appropriate for the volunteer's activity.

Taster available

Restrictions

Minimum age: 14

Availability

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

Frequency & commitment

Direct contact with visitors finishes at the end of September. Other opportunities are ongoing. Visitor Centre is open May to September 10 -5 Direct contact with visitors finishes at the end of September. Other opportunities are ongoing. Visitor Centre is open May to September 10 -5

Volunteers (aged 14-25) taking part in this opportunity are eligible to claim Saltire Awards hours for their activity.
Find out more

This volunteering opportunity is also advertised across Shetland.

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