Today I went to the induction of the family event leader. It's a brand new venture, free and open to the public. The brief is that it's aimed at little ones aged 7 and under, with information for the adults as well. We're doing it from Keswick over August as a trial, with a plan to roll it out over more school holidays if it takes off. It's geared towards those who aren't really used to walking far or wanting to get their kids doing more difficult walks, hence us starting from the middle of town, rather some remote location.
It's really open to interpretation, we've been given a route and some ideas for tasks that make the kids have a proper look about, be aware of their surroundings, make a bit of wild art and music, that kind of thing. The final task gets the adults involved, where we empty a mountain climber's rucksack and they have to identify the red herrings in there, then show them an emergency shelter, we all get in and eat some Kendal mint cake. Looks like a lot of fun! As it's just a trial, we're doing the four Tuesdays in August, then asking for feedback to see if it will work.
I also organised my navigation training, the bronze award. That's on Thursday with the assessment on Friday.
While I was walking with the event coordinator, she hinted that there was going to be reshuffling within the LDNPA, so she's going to keep me in the loop and send me details of any roles that come up I might be interested in!!! How good is that!?!! That's set to happen in October, so I'm muchly looking forward to that! See, I knew I gave up my job at just the right time, I'm sure I wouldn't have mentioned I would love to work for the LDNPA if I was still working for Barnardo's!
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