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Following a successful application to The Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant towards a Heritage Trail project (through its Sharing Heritage scheme), the CASPER Delivery Group is looking to recruit 4-5 Tour Guides.  The Guides will be paid a small fee for each tour taken. The tours are 1-2 miles in a circuit and will take 90 – 120 minutes.

It will allow Coleshill to benefit from tourism visitors keen to enjoy the town’s rich and diverse heritage with the help of the tour guides, following a series of markers.

CASPER stands for Coleshill Art Space Project Everyone Respects and the ‘Everyone Respects’ part refers to the fact that the Coleshill themes of stagecoaching, circus elephant, tea and 3 rivers (Blythe, Cole and Tame) are all referenced in some way by the Peter Walker statue that will form the starting point in High Street for each heritage tour.    

Skills and Experience required

• Able to work independently to deliver high quality tours of the town.
• Focus on delivering customer service, while being professional, courteous and welcoming service to all tour groups making sure that they enjoy an experience.
• Experience of presenting information in a confident manner and easy style to groups of people.
• Flexible availability, to include weekends and Bank Holidays(although the regular dates will be planned ahead for the year).
• Good general knowledge of the town’s history (N.B. guides will be provided with a script for each marker, though, so you are not expected to know it all).

Anyone interested should contact Megan or Colin on 01675 463326 or call into the Town Hall between 9am -1pm, Monday to Friday to have an informal chat about the positions.

The Press Release below is great news for Coleshill:

CASPER Green & Yellow Heritage Tours – Approved Press Release

A t our July meeting our speaker travel writer Roger Butler gave a compelling illustrated talk on his travels in Morocco. Taking us on an imaginative journey through our nearest exotic country, he described the simple way of life of many rural Moroccans plus the exotic, lively markets and nightlife complete with snake charmers, acrobats and water-sellers in major cities like Marrakech and the capital Rabat. Many of us were surprised to hear how cold Morocco can be in the winter because of the snow-capped Atlas mountains in the north of the country. Here the farmers still grind corn by horse power and ancient techniques like winnowing, using the wind to separate the wheat from the chaff. Roger produced the hand-make rake which was one of his first travel souvenirs and epitomised to him the simple, timeless tools, still used in the primitive parts of Morocco. He judged the competition for a colourful holiday photograph which was won by Margot Hawkins and her vivid shot of cherry blossom in Japan. Second was Maureen Lindsay, with her picture of the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway at Cairns in Queensland, Australia. Jane Mills was third with her atmospheric photo of Silver Howe, overlooking Grasmere in the Lake District.

We will be enjoying a Pudding Evening on August 14^th when members will sample a variety of different home-cooked puddings. We are staging a fund-raising coffee morning on October 13^th from 10am in the Town Hall for the Air Ambulance. Our next meeting is on September 11^th when the talk will be ‘True Tales of a Tour Guide – what happens behind the scenes” and the competition is for an unusual paper-knife.

Visitors welcome as always – just turn up and join us.