Do you enjoy bringing people together to get into nature? Then come and join us as a volunteer bushwalking leader!
Benefits of being a bushwalking leader:
- Satisfaction of providing an enjoyable day out for a group of outdoor enthusiasts
- Connecting people with nature
- Meeting new friends
- Supporting VNPA through engaging new people with the organisation
- Meeting and making new friends
- Building self-confidence, leadership and organisational skills
- Sharing good times and experiences with like-minded people.
What does it involve?
As a bushwalking leader, you can lead as many walks, rides or excursions as you like, be it one a year or 10 a year. You might like to lead a bushwalk, overnight hike, bus excursion, camping trip, bike ride or special nature activity such as birding, nature-based art creation or an interpretive walk.
Leading an activity involves:
- Choosing and organising your activity
- Taking bookings
- Coordinating participants to meet at the right place and right time with the right gear
- Leading your activity on the day including keeping the group together, happy and comfortable, organising rest breaks and experiencing unique and interesting places
- Sending a report of your activity to VNPA.
Want to be a volunteer bushwalking leader?
Interested in becoming a bushwalking leader? You’ll need to:
- Contact us to express your interest
- Join some of our bushwalks to get an idea of how our leaders run their trips
- Be mentored by an experienced leader which involves:
- Talking though and learning our guidelines and procedures
- Organising and leading two activities accompanied by an experienced mentor
- Gaining final approval and getting set up as a VNPA bushwalking leader with support from VNPA staff.
You also need to have a current Working with Children Check and First Aid qualification.
If you’d like to know more or express your interest, get in touch!
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