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From CDRP to Yurts!

Driving hectically round the county mulling over how diverse my job is I thought I’d give you a bit of a taste of what I’m up to in the lead up to the summer holidays. I started off in the office dealing with emails, responding to some press comments, sorting out staffing issues, recruitment, advertising…..I’m [...]

Snowed Under in June!

Yep, it’s almost the summer and here I am Snowed Under! Not literally of course! Although there is lots happening here at the moment and I would love to write about it work is so hectic that I’m just keeping on top of it (hopefully) and can’t get the time to actually comment on anything. (I have [...]

Charlton Chase 2009

With wind, rain and snow taking up most of last week it was with some trepidation that I could be seen heading out last Saturday night to help out on the Charlton Chase. This is an all night navigation exercise (depending on skills!) for young people from across West Sussex which has been run annually by the County Youth [...]

Random Post No.1 – Recruitment

Part of why life has been so busy recently has been the sudden upsurge in the number of vacancies and having to get to grips, yet again, with a recruitment system that has changed. As a County we’ve now moved from Job Descriptions and person specs to just the one role profile which has meant [...]

Practising photo sharing with Animoto

Just a few sights and views of Cobnor Outdoor Activities Centre, a centre based in West Sussex that we work closely with to deliver a range of Outdoor Activities  / Outdoor Education for young people of all ages and abilities. I did this through uploading pictures from Flickr across to Animoto and let the magic [...]

Youth Work and Outdoor Education

WoW! I can’t get over how varied my job can be. Had lots of different discussions and developments today but I will just blog ones I’m pondering. One of my responsibilities is Outdoor Education. In West Sussex there are 3 Outdoor Activity Centres and a Camp Site. At the moment we are looking to develop work [...]

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