Heard of the Big Help Out? It’s the chance to join others to make a difference in your community this spring. From its launch on 8 May’s Coronation Bank Holiday, we’ll be blitzing through jobs with projects that make volunteering easy, welcoming and worthwhile. Through the Big Help Out you
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2023’s shaping up to be another busy year for us. We have some odd jobs we’d ideally like done before Christmas to help us get ahead. We’ll be recruiting volunteers again but in the meantime, if you have skills you can share and have a couple of days to spare,
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We have a lovely new spot to enjoy the view across the front lawn, from our new basket swing, which was installed last week by our Partners the Weir Group. It took the team a day and it was amazing to watch a group of engineers precision fit a piece
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Our board of trustees are all volunteers, and as well as lending their expertise from various professional backgrounds, they also jump in and help in other ways. In 2019 one of them, Bill Crook, raised over £2,000 for Wiston Lodge’s first major roof repair works through a sponsored cycle the
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As part of Volunteers’ Week we are highlighting ways those who give their time and effort make a difference to Wiston Lodge. These include youth volunteers helping with activities, people looking to gain work experience, and those who have given their time unpaid, and become part of the team. Here,
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Bookings for our summer activity programme are now live! Join us for 4 weeks of outdoor fun and adventure on themed days taking advantage of all the activities we have to offer on site – try your hard at archery, high ropes challenges, team games, canoeing, raft building, hill climbing
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As a member of the Hospitality and Events Crew you may have a passion for cooking or serving amazing food, or be motivated by making our facilities better or our accommodation welcoming and clean. At Wiston Lodge we look to develop all your skills and hidden talents, encouraging you to
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We have 4 opportunities for young people aged 16-24 who live in South Lanarkshire through the Community Jobs Scotland scheme to support those with barriers to employment. As grounds assistants you will help to maintain and develop our 52-acre site. Jobs will include path maintenance, fence building, bridge building, grass
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We have 2 opportunities for young people aged 16-24 who live in South Lanarkshire through the Community Jobs Scotland scheme to support those with barriers to employment. As Hospitality Assistants you will help with day-to-day maintenance of our main house, cabins and Russell Hub facility. Main duties: to assist in
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We have 2 opportunities for local young people aged 16-29 looking for a job in the outdoors through the Community Jobs Scotland scheme to support those with barriers to employment into work. As Grounds Assistants you will help day-to-day maintaining and developing our 52 acres of grounds. Jobs will include
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