Venturer Camp

The TREE programme is offering Venturer groups the chance to bring a small group of young refugees or asylum seekers to VCamp this year, as part of Woodcraft’s Right to Refuge campaign.

We’ve paid for the places, so it’s a brilliant opportunity to make links with your local refugee or asylum seeker community, get to know them and bring them to Woodcraft’s most awesome camp this year.

If your group is interested, get in touch with Chloë as soon as possible, at chloe.darlington@woodcraft.org.uk.

As you have probably noticed, the website has changed quite a lot. Branding is one of the new aspects that we wanted to take on with Venturer Camp 2010. We now have a logo and a defined brand.

We also want you to know about the camp before you get there. That is why we will be posting news related to all our centres here. At the moment you can only see 3 centres in the right sidebar, but we will be adding more and more in the next few days.

Please bear in mind that we are still working on site, so many features will not work for a few days. Everything should be working 100% in about a week.

However, we would love to know what you think about all this. The best way to have your say is by emailing vcamp@woodcraft.org.uk or just leaving a comment below. That simple.

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We are looking for people to take roles on during the Venturer Camp 2010 which will take place in Derbyshire in 7 – 15th August 2010 with a Theme Futures.

We are currently looking for the following posts, they will be directed by a group of Ventures, DFs and Venturer Leaders from across the country in producing our regular Venturer Camp Festival.

Are you up for the challenge of coordinating the logistics of the camp? Well if you are then get involved!

We are looking for people who would initially be interested in being:

Camp Coordinator
Camp Administrator
Production Coordinator
Camp KP (Food Coordinator)
Site Services Coordinator
Programme Coordinator

Short job descriptions of these roles are bellow, but to take them on you should be over 16 and had experience of running and coordinating camps, We are preferably looking for someone who had taken part in Venturer Camps in the past and willing to spend a significant amount of time in the build up to the camp in getting everything sorted.

If you are interested in any of these posts, then please write a short introduction about yourself, your experience in running camp, the particular role and why you would like to help out at VCamp 2010.

If you are a Venturer, Venturer Leader or a DF and want to have a say about the camp and how it is run, or if you want to take part in being on the camp committee (the people that Will direct the coordinators) then watch this space for information on how to get involved.

If you want to help out but being a central coordinator isn’t for you, or you have fantastic ideas about running education centres, workshops or Villages then again we will be in contact very shortly.

Camp Coordinator

• Figure head of the camp
• Overall responsible for coordinating the Central Team and the Steering committee
• Reports to the steering committee and has experience in working with steering committees in the Woodcraft Folk
• Is committed to participation of Venturers in the design and delivery of the camp
• Understands Venturers and is a liaison between Venturers, Venturer leaders and DFs.
• External spokes person for the camp before and after the event.
• With the Administrator and the Production Manager coordinates relations with the site.
• With the Administrator is part of the disputes resolution process

Camp Administrator

• Administrator for the camp
• Has a detailed understanding of budgets, and camp finances
• Has worked in the passed with camp policies and with the Steering Committee and Coordinator produces the camp policies
• Takes bookings for the camp and liaises with folk house about staff support and time.

Production Coordinator

• Coordinates hire of equipment and transport
• Coordinators legal and compliance issues
• Coordinates Camp liaison with the Administrator and coordinator
• Trouble shoots with the Site services team logistical issues.

Camp KP (Food Coordinator)

• Coordinates with the Cooperative and should have previous relationship with the coop centrally and regionally
• Understand ethical purchase
• Orders all the food from local, national and regional sources
• Creates detailed recipes for the village KPs

Site Services Coordinator

• Coordinates the site services team
• Coordinates logistics on camp
• Waste management systems
• Hygiene and Safety coordination
• works with and coordinates with the Scout site team.

Programme Coordinator

• Coordinates the programme
• Produces Central programme for the start and end of the camp
• Coordinates the theme and learning in the camp
• Should have run a centre at a camp and be dynamic with ideas for new and exciting ways of learning.

The Woodcraft’s triannual Venturer Camp is brought froward to make room for the Intentional Camp held in 2011.

The Camp will be a festival for under 1000 young people from across the UK and grater momentum for looking forward in to the world that we want to see.

“The camp is a unique opportunity for our Venturers to come together and explore ideas whilst having fun” said Lloyd Russell-Moyle one of the camp conveners.

“Venturers at the meeting early in 2009 decided to have the theme Futures – Fashioning a new world, and a programme will be developed around that theme ready for 2010″

The camp is run by and for young people and the programme will be designed by young people and Venturers themselves.

Lloyd explains “though workshops, websites and facebook groups Venturers themselves will decided what they want in their camp, from the theme nights to the educational programme this is participatory education for social change”

There was a workshop at the Annual Gathering as well as a detailed session held across the country. The project is expected to included a dedicated team of Venturers to lead the camp who will “appoint” the positions in the camp.

If you want to get involved then email either vcamp@woodcraft.org.uk or join the email group at vcamp2010@googlegroups.com

Hi everyone!

As you have probably noticed (unless this is your first time here) we have a new site! It is really exciting to reveal this new design, with hundreds of new functionalities. Let’s name some of them.

Comments, now you can give your opinion in any of the news that we publish. Start complaining/cheering/discussing/supporting now!

Did you have a look at the pictures? Yes, that is right. Now we have a pool in flickr that will display all images in this website. Anyone can upload pictures to the pool, so come on! Now, please remember that we will only accept pictures from previous Venturer camps in the pool, do not try to upload anything else…
If for any reason you want to access the previous design, you can! We weren’t gonna delete anything, of course. Just go to the VCamp08 site and you’ll find everything like it was…

Ok guys, please remember that we will be changing some stuff around in the next few days, so do not scare if suddenly everything fails (hopefully this won’t happen…). And come back soon. We have just started!