{"id":790,"date":"2022-06-27T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/?p=790"},"modified":"2022-06-27T10:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:01:55","slug":"volunteering-opportunities-at-scotney-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/2022\/06\/27\/volunteering-opportunities-at-scotney-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering Opportunities at Scotney Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who we are:<\/strong><br \/>\n\uf0e0 The National Trust is the largest conservation charity in Europe, supported by around 45,000 volunteers nationally and 14,000 in London and the South East.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 Combining medieval moated castle, Victorian mansion house, gardens, estate, hop farm, and SSSI in one property, Scotney Castle has over 600 years of history. It has one of the largest National<br \/>\nTrust collections, including textiles and dress, ceramics, paintings and books.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 Every year we welcome around 125,000 visitors to Scotney Castle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What we need:<\/strong><br \/>\n\uf0e0 We are looking for volunteers who enjoy interacting with other people, have great communication skills, are friendly and willing to learn new skills.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 You are looking for a volunteering opportunity where you can really make a difference.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 You want to be part of an enthusiastic team.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 You might be wanting to spend time in a fabulous house, jam-packed with history!<br \/>\n\uf0e0 You may be looking towards a career in history, heritage, travel &amp; tourism, conservation, museums, architecture, landscape architecture, gardens or art history.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 You could be welcoming visitors to the property, either in the car park or at visitor reception.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 You could be helping inside the house, talking with visitors and learning about the collection.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 You may be in the garden helping visitors find their way around and talking with them<\/p>\n<p><strong>What we offer:<\/strong><br \/>\n\uf0e0 Invaluable experience working with the public in a busy visitor attraction.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 An excellent opportunity to build sector specific knowledge &amp; experience.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 We will provide full training and all necessary PPE.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 We can help towards travelling costs.<br \/>\n\uf0e0 When you have completed 50 hours of volunteering, you will receive a card giving you 20% discount in the caf\u00e9 and shop as well as free entry to ALL National Trust properties around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Due to our location, students will need to be able to drive or have access to a lift.<\/p>\n<p>For further information please email: <a href=\"mailto:scotneycastle@nationaltrust.org.uk\">scotneycastle@nationaltrust.org.uk<\/a> or call 01892 893820<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/files\/2022\/06\/Kent-Uni-poster-003.pdf\">Kent Uni poster (003)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/files\/2022\/06\/Kent-Uni-volunteering-info-sheet-poster-003.pdf\">Kent Uni volunteering info sheet poster (003)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who we are: \uf0e0 The National Trust is the largest conservation charity in Europe, supported by around 45,000 volunteers nationally and 14,000 in London and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/2022\/06\/27\/volunteering-opportunities-at-scotney-castle\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21339,25563,1120,260302,50018,21632,1123,1346,112389,594,1252,18570,18573],"tags":[9658,872,9666,5343,679,37,149978,905,9650],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}