Blog post by everyone!
Net - Leader
Net - Leader
My role is pretty simple - to make sure everything is done right! This means supporting the rest of the team in their roles, writing risk assessments, sorting out accommodation, liaising with both the LSGCO and Girlguiding here in the UK and generally keeping on top of everything. I've probably done some other stuff too but it's been a bit of a blur! It's a big job, but I'm enjoying the challenge!
Sarah S – First Aid
My main role as First Aider is providing first aid (whilst
making sure that anyone else involved is safe and that the situation doesn’t
become worse) and pastoral support overseas on project for GOLD Team
Latvia. At second briefing we had
individual role training and Toni from Team Latvia 2014 ran the First Aid
training, demonstrating effective wound cleaning and explaining the signs and
symptoms of temperature related conditions.
Hopefully, I won’t have to use my training whilst out on project and
everyone says safe and well!
Laura – Resource co-ordinator
The training and resources co-ordinator role involves
ensuring we have all the resources we need to run our training sessions whilst
on project. This includes co-ordinating and sourcing what we need to bring with
us from the UK and what we will likely be able to buy in country to save money
and weight in luggage.
Sarah K - Treasurer
While the
rest of the team were off at their individual role trainings, Net and I went to
the treasurer training. I’m in charge of
the money and making sure we stick to our budget in Latvia….apparently I’m the
responsible one….. At the treasurer
training we ran through a mock budget and went through how to use all the
different spreadsheets. I’ve basically
got to make sure that we have a budget worked out before we leave the UK, and
keep track of everything while in Latvia.
Therefore I’ll be collecting and numbering receipts, be in charge of the
team bank account and make sure that the books add up after we get back! I’ll be constantly armed with a mini
calculator, conversion chart and my treasurer notebook J I’d better get started practicing
some mental arithmetic!
Katie – Photo & Video Co-ordinator
I’m responsible for making sure we’re taking photos of our
work throughout the project, making sure we've got the photos we need for social media, and taking photos & video that follow Girlguiding guidelines.
After the project, it’s my job to select our best 50 photos and send these to
Girlguiding. I know that’s going to be hard, as there’ll be so many moments
I’ll want to select (And, in the age of digital cameras, we take a lot of
photos. I took hundreds on my last trip, so times that by 5 and that’s a lot of
photos to go through! )
My training involved sorting through previous GOLD photos to
determine what were good and bad qualities in the photos, and discussing our
handy how-to booklet with Girlguiding’s PR team.
Written Documenter (written by Katie)
As there’s only 5 of us, this role will be shared between
all of us, with a co-ordinator for each social media role. For example, for
this post we each wrote about our own roles. We’ll share things such as writing
minutes from our team conference calls, and the reports about our trip.
Sarah S is our twitter queen (follow us @GOLDLatvia_2015),
our Facebook page is in Sarah K’s capable hands and I (Katie) am the blog
co-ordinator.
