A slide show reviewing the highlights of the year for BCA.

The talk confessions of an editor schedule for tonight (Thursday 21st November) has been cancelled due to the adverse weather forecast. We hope to be able to rearrange the talk in the New Year.

Are you passionate about food, great service, and working in a fast-paced café?

Join our lovely team at Poole’s Cavern Café at the Cavern as a Full-Time Food & Beverage Assistant!

For full details and how to apply, please download the recruitment pack and job description.

Recruitment Pack Food and Beverage Team Member

Food and Beverage Assistant Job Description

We want to involve our local community in contributing to our new souvenir guide for Poole’s Cavern & Buxton Country Park.
We're looking for beautiful images that celebrate our natural environment, along with Buxton’s heritage and historic architecture, including:
• Poole’s Cavern – with its stunning limestone formations
• BCA woodlands - Grin Low (Buxton Country Park), Corbar, Gadley, Sherbrook, Hogshaw Woods, Shay Lodge, Ashwood Dale in all seasons!
• Woodland wildlife - snapshots of the amazing flora and fauna in our woodlands
• Historic Buxton - iconic landmarks, local highlights, and scenes to celebrate our vibrant visitor economy.

Whether you are a seasoned pro or an enthusiastic amateur, we welcome your perspective! We only ask that photos are your own work and high-resolution to be used in print. We will provide a complimentary copy of the souvenir guide to the successful entrants!

In order to be considered, you must download the entry form from our website.
Complete and return the form, along with your photos, in an email to our Membership & Marketing Officer:

leah.mycock@buxtoncivicassociation.org.uk

Submit your photos and entry form by 6th December for a chance to be featured in this meaningful project supporting Buxton Civic Association.

Buxton Civic Association Photography Submission Form

Kate Dickson of Creative Heritage gave a talk to BCA Members titled "Rescuing Ruins - the challenges and opportunities of the creative reuse of old buildings" to watch the talk again please click on the link below or go to our You tube channel by following the link at the end of this post

Rescuing Ruins

As those who followed the Buxton Crescent project will recall, historic building projects take a long time and cost a lot of money. Why is that? Is it all about the funding, or the location, or technical problems, or is there something else? With 25 years’ experience of working on difficult historic buildings projects, as a project manager engaged by charitable organisations, a Trustee of the Architectural Heritage Fund and a mentor with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Kate will share some insights in an inspiring talk, illustrated with photographs of projects ranging from industrial dereliction to chocolate box cottages.

BCA You Tube Channel

Fund Raising Manager (Part time)

Do you have skills as a fundraiser, working with grants, foundations, the public sector and corporate partners? Do you care about the environment, and want to spend your career working to support the natural world, built heritage, and ways of involving the community in their conservation? If so, joining us as BCA’s first-ever Fundraising Manager could be the role for you.

Following a recent restructuring, BCA is seeking to recruit a part-time Fundraising Manager who will work closely with our senior management team and trustees to help the charity secure its ambitions. Experience working as a fundraiser for a charity is essential, as is the ability to multi-task on different projects, work well with a team, and work strategically on a results-driven basis. Knowledge of the Buxton area would be advantageous.

For further information please see our recruitment pack.

Fund Raising Manager recruitment pack

Equality Monitoring Form

We are recruiting Elves for our Santa Experience this Christmas

We are seeking actors to play the role of Christmas Elves at Poole’s Caverns for our popular Santa’s Grotto event this Christmas. As a Christmas Elf, your main responsibility will be to ensure that all visitors have a magical experience during their visit. You will work alongside Santa in our natural limestone cave in shifts lasting approximately 90 minutes. Your duties will include staying in character, guiding families from the meeting point to Santa, and ensuring that the event timings are followed. You will also be responsible for greeting families, assisting with present organization, and maintaining and cleaning the grotto set. Please note that this role involves outdoor work, and an elf costume will be provided.

If you are interested and want further information please download the recruitment pack and don't forget to complete the Equality Monitoring Form.

Recruitment Pack for Christmas Elves

Equality Monitoring Form

Head of Operations

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a new position at a leading tourist attraction in Buxton, situated at the gateway to the stunning Peak District.

If you can demonstrate that you possess expertise in commerce, education, leadership, team management, and achieving results working to strict budgets and targets, this could be your opportunity to advance your career.

For details of the role and how to apply click on the link to the recruitment pack below.

Recruitment Pack Head of Operations

End of Term Report on Buxton's Swifts by Lindsey Wakefield

Most of our swifts have left us now to make the long journey back to Southern Africa, or in the case of the chicks that have just fledged making the journey for the first time.

If you are interested in finding more about swifts click on the link after the report panels below.

Derbyshire's Swifts

Civic Voice is the national charity for the civic movement in England. Its role is to make the places where everyone lives more attractive, enjoyable, and distinctive. It promotes civic pride and speaks up for civic societies and local communities across England. Civic Voice believes that everyone has the right to live somewhere they can be proud of and works towards enhancing the quality of life and the environment in local communities.

The organization also serves as a voice for the civic movement, which includes over a thousand local civic and amenity societies. These societies focus on voluntary and community action to improve the places where people live, work, and relax. They champion the importance of these places to decision-makers and opinion formers in various sectors. Civic societies are known for being independent and grassroots organizations that can be provocative, stubborn, forceful, inspiring, and outspoken on behalf of the places they care about.

Civic Voice also aims to build stronger, more active, and more engaged communities through its work and aspires to have a nation of active citizens³. It is a fundamental source of civic pride and plays an essential role in helping individuals and communities understand and take action to improve their lives through the places they live.

Civic Voice article