25th Anniversary Project – Volunteers required
Improving Lives and Enhancing Communities – A History of Watford FC’s community outreach work
We are looking for enthusiastic and organised volunteers to help us research, collate and manage information from the 25 year history of the Watford FC’s Community Sports and Education Trust’s work in the community. This is an exciting opportunity to help us celebrate a key milestone in our history.
Project summary
2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the formal creation of Watford FC’s community outreach programme. To commemorate this, Watford FC’s Community Sports and Education Trust is planning a series of events and activities during the 2017/18 season to celebrate its achievements and contribution to the people of Watford and surrounding areas.
The cornerstone of this anniversary programme will be a visual and accessible exhibition documenting the Trust’s history and the production of a book and interactive website. The project will be supported by local partnerships and a team of local trained volunteers. It will narrate the story of the Trust’s evolving work across the areas of skills development and employability, sports development and coaching, diversity and inclusion, and community health and wellbeing.
The project will result in a greater awareness and understanding of the Trust’s heritage and its role at the heart of the community. Through the recording and digital archiving of historical information, key records will be safeguarded, which would otherwise be at risk of being lost. Through the training they undergo, the volunteers will emerge with an enhanced skills base, bringing personal benefits beyond the scope of this Heritage Lottery Funded project.
Role requirements
- Volunteers will be required:-
- To assist with research of the history of Watford FC’s Community Sports and Education Trust over the 25 year period.
- To receive training in various techniques, including the capturing of oral history and digitalisation.
- To assist with the compilation and review of written records, newspaper articles, online material, photographs and other relevant documentation.
- To assist in setting up and attending meetings with potential information providers.
- To support in the creation of a museum exhibition
Person requirements
- Volunteers will be expected to have excellent planning, organisational and time management skills along with the following attributes
- be enthusiastic and able to work well in a team environment
- be thorough, and able to work to deadlines
- have an interest in the history of the club’s work in the community
- be available to fulfil the expectations outlined in the role requirements abovefor up to 1 day per weekbetween March and August 2017
- have strong listening and communication skills
- be expected to comply with existing policies covering Health & Safety, Equal Opportunities and Data Protection. (All policies will be made available as part of the role induction process).
- be flexible
What does the role offer to you?
- An exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of an historic project
- The opportunity to learn new skills in capturing oral history and digitalisation.
- The opportunity be part of a new volunteer team
- The opportunity to learn more about heritage through interviewing people associated with the club’s history
- The opportunity to spend time at the Watford museum and at Watford FC
For further information about this opportunity please contact
Derrick Williams by email at or by mobile on 07494 558229