Venturer Camp

Greetings Traveler,

Big News! The Awesome Job Centre is now online !! But what on earth does that mean i hear you cry! well fear not compadre for i shall explain.

The Awesome Job Centre

The Awesome Job Centre is a new centre to open at V-Camp 2010. It will do some of the usual things that centres do like running a bitchin programe of workshops but crucially it will be the hub of all DF and Kinsfolk roles at the Camp. The Awesome Job Centre intends to keep track of everybody over 15 and what they’re getting up to. Not to flex some sort of central controll but to help everybody gets the most out of V-Camp 2010 and getting involved with a certain centre or team is as accessible and open as possible.

Perhaps you’ve always wanted to do some site services? Perhaps you wanna run a set of DJing workshops? Perhaps you wanna do somthing new everyday untill you find the team or centre for you? Whatever your desire The Awesome Job Centre is the place to go. You can find contact details for every centre coordinator so its really easy to get the answers your looking for. If that doesn’t work or you have a complex situation you can e-mail the awesome job centre directly.

Do I Need a Role?

Venturer Camp is for Venturers. Part of this means that if you are over 15 then you need to help build the camp those under 15. Its not about all work and no play – having a role doesn’t take up all your time, is always a lot of fun and you meet loads of new people.You will need to select your role when you book (Which can be done entirely ONLINE)

If your a Venturer then being a Venturer is all the role you need but if you want to get involved with a centre or team or have ideas to share about how you would like them to run then please get in touch as every centre coordinator would love to have your idea onboard!

Contact

Probably best to go straight there and see what’s what Click HERE to visit The Awesome Job Centre

Venturers lead the way

If you are a venturer and you can’t wait for Venturer Camp, then today is your lucky day.

We are currently looking for eight brave venturers to take on a regional role and sit in the venturer committee that will help shape VCamp.

You will join a group of six other venturers that were elected at the venturer conference.

The role involves meeting three times before the camp (all expenses paid) and telling the central team what you would like to see on camp. The first meeting will be held in the first week of February.

If you want to get involved, send an email to vcamp@woodcraft.org.uk with the following details:

Your full name, district, email address and a statement saying how you can help the committee (write about 300 words).

The deadline for submissions is December 24th. The decision will be made by the current members of the committee, and we will let you know if your application has been successful in the first week of January.

We need a representative from each of the following areas: London, South East, South West, Midlands, Wales, Eastern, Northern and Scotland.

So go on, send your application in now!

Blue skies,

Magico Martinez

After a number of fantastic application a panel selected by the General Council including Venturer representation, has decided to appoint the Camp Coordination group.

Thank you everyone that applied, I believe that it was a hard task for the committee. Each coordinator will be responsible to reporting to the Venturer committee who will manage the camp. The meeting to select the Venturer Committee will be held on the 5th December in Birmingham.

Camp Coordinator –

Magico Martinez

Programme Coordinator –

Joel White

Camp Administrator (Bookings and Finance Coordinator)  –

Lloyd Russell-Moyle

Production Coordinator -

Dan Ellis

Camp KP (Food Coordinator) –

Alice Stott & Rachel Remedios

Site Services Coordinator –

James Tomley

You can contact vcamp@woodcraft.org.uk for the coordinator, administrator or production coordinator.

Profiles about the whole team and their roles can be seen on the Central team page

As the coordinating team is getting ready, the site chosen, and the dates set – there is something vital missing…

… Venturers!

... Venturers take over!

That is why on the 5th December 2009 we are holding the first National Venturer Camp conference in Birmingham.

We are asking every group to send a Venturer and leader to the conference for an event where we will discuss plan and do other exciting things getting ready for the conference.

Be there, book now:

by Post:
Tracy Cleveland
Woodcraft Folk Venturer camp conference
Units 9/10 83 Crampton Street London SE17 3BF

by Email: tracy.cleveland@woodcraft.org.uk
by Phone: 020 8658 3745

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.