Volunteering Opportunities
Thank you for your interest in volunteering, we are now accepting applications to volunteer with the Trust.
Volunteers
82
Min days per year
12
Years supported
40
Make a difference as a volunteer
We are particularly looking for Volunteers who can meet the following attributes, with the ability to:
- Communicate effectively and sensitively with all visitors to the Trust
- Work effectively within the Trust team
- Commit fully to our goal of ensuring that everyone visiting the Trust has a safe and enjoyable time with us
- High standards of personal presentation and hygiene
- Empathy and approachability
- Willingness to engage with ongoing training to improve skills for your role
- Commit to a minimum of 12 days per year
“I volunteer because it’s a way of helping others do the things I love doing. You can’t put a value on the smiles, laughter, banter and fun as we come ashore after a great day’s sailing. What’s not to like?”
Neil Lawrence
All the volunteers who are involved in our on-water activities hold a relevant qualification as listed:
Motor cruiser’s
Sailing
- RYA Keelboat instructor or Dinghy Instructor
Powerboats
Canoes
“To be granted the opportunity to assist, enable and enhance our visitors experience, is both humbling and satisfying. To see smiles and occasional tears of joy, makes volunteering very worth while.”
Les Wood
We welcome applications from people who can demonstrate that they have the relevant skills to complete the necessary qualifications as listed above.
All our water-based volunteering roles require a reasonable but varying degree of physical fitness and mobility in and on our boats.
You will need to have the physical capability to effectively assist visitors while on our boats, to carry out rescues and to administer first aid and CPR if required.
Not all our volunteers are water based and we have a variety of “off water” roles that you may be willing to help with.
Please get in touch for more information via info@nancyoldfield.org.uk
Maintenance
- All year round
- Painting and repairs to building paths and boardwalks
- More boat focused time in the winter
Administration
- Answering call and greeting visitors
- Taking payments
- Scanning and photocopying
Gardening
- Grass cutting
- Pruning
- Weeding
Promotional events and shows
- Preparing for events and shows
- Setting and takedown at events and shows
- Manning stands
- Informing the public about we do
Photography and filming
- Photos and films for our social media outlets and promotional materials
- Cataloguing media files
Leave a legacy
We are very fortunate to benefit from legacies from a number of bequests, any contribution left in a will helps enormously to enable us to continue making our services accessible to all.
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Donate
We are extremely grateful to all of our supporters, any help you can give us is very welcome. Donations can be made as a one-off or monthly payment.
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