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When: This is a flexible volunteer role that can be tailored around your availability. It is an estimated time commitment of 2 – 3 hours a week.
About the project: Dunoon Forward is a heritage inspired active travel app available for free for mobile phones and tablets. The app aims to give users information about walking and cycling opportunities around the town, whilst providing visual and written interpretation about local landmarks, people, shops and buildings. The app also contains Eye Spy games for kids and useful local information about the area.
Volunteer role: To work with the Dunoon Community Development Trust Team to promote the Dunoon Forward App to members of the community and visitors from the Dunoon Cycle and Walking bothy and at events. To check the app’s content and collate any information to update the app.
Requirements: An interest in meeting and talking to people. An enthusiasm for Dunoon and the local community. You will be given an introduction, and basic training about the app.
Helpful but not essential: an interest in local heritage, cycling and walking.
What you will get out of volunteering: Through this role you will be part of a small, friendly team working on projects to improve the health and wellbeing of the community through connecting people to information about our shared local heritage, cycling and walking. You will become a local information expert, supporting people to get more out of our shared natural and historic assets and help to tell Dunoon’s story of place.