Volunteering at Camp Chew 20-23 June 2019
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Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig
Youth Worker at nature camp for teenagers from disadvantaged, VME or rural backgrounds.
We desperately need volunteers from 20-23 June 2019 at Compton Martin & Chew Valley near Bristol.
Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig
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Camp Avalon 2017
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Volunteer tasks
By 17 June 2019 – split between volunteers
- to prepare an Eventbrite report with contacts for children/volunteers.
- to finalise the camp programme and e-mail parents/volunteers.
- to finalise a breakdown of tasks with who is responsible for what.
- to prepare and print parent consent forms.
Camp Avalon 2017
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On 20 June 2019 Campsite 10 am and 6 pm
- to help move camping equipment from storage to the campsite;
- to help put up 6 large tents;
- to help set up all equipment needed for the campsite; and
- to help do food shopping.
21 June 2019 1.00 pm to 3.30 pm
- to finish setting up at the campsite.
21 June 2019 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm
- to travel back to Bristol with our driver.
- to pick up the minibus before picking up children.
- to ensure parents sign consent forms.
- to remind parents that they need to both come to pick up their children for a camp feedback session and so the children can have their free gift.
Camp Avalon 2017
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21 June 2019 5.00 pm to 22 June 4.00 pm
- to be nature volunteers engaging teens in nature activities; or
- to work as a youth worker engaging with VME children age 7-11 year olds at our nature camp;
- to talk to children about nature;
- to talk to children about how going outside helps with mental health;
- to talk to children about the need to protect the environment
- to talk to children about what they can do to help the environment and wildlife
- to support nature volunteers who are providing expertise;
- to supervise football games
- to help with camp cooking, supervising toasting marshmallows, washing up and tidying up, serving meals;
- to ensure children have the equipment needed for sessions;
- to ensure children pack up all their belonging.
Working on our camps will leave you feeling incredibly positive about the future.
Media – to take photographs and video footage, interviewing the children about their experiences at the camp, how they have benefited and about how it made them feel from a wellbeing/mental health point of view.
Camp Chew 2017
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22 June – 4 pm to 6.30 pm
- to travel back in the minibus with the children;
- to help set up a table and Gazebo outside St Pauls’ Resource Centre with literature from Time to Talk, a mental health charity;
- to talk to parents with their children about the camp, how the children enjoyed getting outside, how it was good for their mental health and academic achievement, what the parents can do to carry on with that in terms of continuing to take their children outside and enjoy nature.
- to then talk to the parents about mental health in order to raise awareness of the issue;
- to let the children have their free water bottle after these discussions have taken place;
- to if possible, video the parents about what they feel the benefits for their children have been.
23 July 10 am to 5 pm
- To take down tents, pack up campsite and put into storage.
About The Author
Hi, I’m Dr. Mya-Rose Craig. I am a 19-year-old prominent British-Bangladeshi ornithologist, environmentalist, diversity activist as well as an author, speaker and broadcaster. At age 11 I started the popular blog Birdgirl, and at age 17 I became the youngest person to see half of the birds in the world.
Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ - Margaret Atwood
This is my story; a journey defined by my love for these extraordinary creatures. Because large or small, brown, patterned or jewelled, there is something about birds that makes us, even for just moments at a time, lift our eyes away from our lives and up to the skies.
Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ - Margaret Atwood
This is my story; a journey defined by my love for these extraordinary creatures. Because large or small, brown, patterned or jewelled, there is something about birds that makes us, even for just moments at a time, lift our eyes away from our lives and up to the skies.