YMCA Fairthorne Leader
GREAT BRITAIN
Social work
Social work
Permanent
About the project
YMCA Fairthorne Leader
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
YMCA Fairthorne Group is a fast-growing charity. Our mission is to champion and add value to young lives by providing experiences that challenge, enable and develop the individual. Fairthorne Manor, part of the Fairthorne Group, delivers outdoor education and environmental programmes to over 20,000 children and young people each year on both a residential and daily basis. The Outdoor programme consists of a wide range of activities, including canoeing, climbing, bush-craft, abseiling, archery and a range of team games and pastoral activities. During term time, we deliver a diverse outdoor education programme to school and community groups, whilst during the holidays, we run an enormously successful Daycamp programme for children aged 4 to 16 years, catering for up to 500 children per day. We also run children\'s birthday parties and family open days and camping, corporate team building days and community events such as Youth band practice, church meetings and counselling groups. Fairthorne Manor delivers services and programmes 7 days of the week throughout most of the year.
💼 What the programme involves
You will be joining the very successful Daycamp programme as a volunteer group leader, and trained in a variety of activities including Obstacle Course, Aqua Slide and Den Building, as well as group games and Playwork. You will have responsibility for the well-being of groups of children aged 4-16 and will be their support and inspiration while they are here. You will need enthusiasm and imagination to welcome and provide an amazing experience for the children.
• Taking part in outdoor adventurous activities
• Learning how to manage groups of children
• Setting up and packing down activities
• Behaviour management and resolution management of children
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be allocated a basic room, which may be shared with up to 4 other volunteers/instructors (separate for male/female). Bedding provided.
Three meals a day will be provided in the dining room and there are toilet and shower facilities, a washing machine drying laundry
Please note, do not expect a 5* hotel! Fairthorne is more like a youth hostel with dormitory-style accommodation and basic facilities.
📍 About the location
Fairthorne Manor is located in a village called Curdridge which is near the city of Southampton on the South Coast of England. It is about 15 minutes’ walk from Fairthorne Manor into the village where there are shops and pubs. The nearest train station is Botley from where it is about half an hour’s journey into Southampton city centre.
⚠️ Requirements
Visas, flights and requirements
You must be over 18 years of age at the time your programme starts due to our accommodation rules.
You must be able to fund your own travel to and from the UK within a week of the start and finish dates of the programme and be able to get from your arrival airport to our local train station (Botley, Hampshire) from where we will pick you up.
EU, EEA and Swiss citizens - you must apply for a VISA through the new UK points-based system taking effect from 1 January 2021. This is a tier 5 charity workers visa with the same costs as a non-EU citizen.
Non-EU citizens – you must apply for a tier 5 charity workers visa (approximately £244) for which we will provide a sponsorship certificate. In addition, you will need to pay an immigration health surcharge (currently £624) to the UK Government. Applications take around 3-4 weeks. Additionally, you can pay £500 to use the priority service and get a decision in 5 working days, or super-priority £800 to get the next working day decision. The host are a fully approved ‘A-rated sponsor, which means you do not require a certain amount of savings 90 days before you apply.
You will need to provide us with two contacts for us to obtain a reference from and provide us with a certified translated local police check or be willing to obtain a DBS check if living in the UK.
Be able to attend an online interview in the coming weeks with a panel from our centre.
ℹ️ Additional information
POCKET MONEY: The volunteer will receive £80 in pocket money per week for their own personal expenses.
Kit list: we provide volunteers with uniforms: t-shirts, fleece, coats. We also provide all bedding.
Things you will need to bring:
• Towels
• Toiletries
• Casual clothes/underwear and footwear for personal time
• Suitable footwear for the outdoors, trainers or boots- nothing that is open-toed or not attached at the back
• Plain trousers/leggings or shorts in either black/dark blue or khaki
• Sun hat, sunglasses, sun cream, medications
• Travel adapter for electronics
Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.
Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
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27/06/2022 → 31/08/2022
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ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
50.00 GBP ≈ 60 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Southampton SO30 2GH, UK
GREAT BRITAIN
🌍 Location info
Local currency
United Kingdom Pound (GBP / £)
Exchange rate
1 GBP = 1.195652 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
Collective
🗣️ Languages spoken
English