Hands On Consulting

30/12/2022

We are hiring!

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and hardworking person to join our small team to support with:

> The next stages of development of our Rainbow Enterprise Network (REN)
> Expanding our Somewhere: For Us magazine membership
> Increasing advertising revenue for the magazine and podcast

This will be achieved through relationship-building with businesses and organisations within the Cairngorms National Park area and beyond.

21 hours per week @ £21.50 per hour, for 11 weeks on a freelance basis.

Application deadline: 3rd January 2023

Discover more about our Sales and Development Co-ordinator role at https://somewhereedi.org/news

27/10/2022

Leave no trace…

06/09/2022

Delighted to be returning to the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Unesco Biosphere !

Our Biosphere Guide Training Course is running for a second time in 2022 and application are open now. The course offers four days of free training aimed to equip and empower local people who aspire to run guiding or tour-based businesses in our UNESCO Biosphere. To make this training more accessible to residents in and the course in October will be based at .

To help prospective applicants decide whether to apply we asked Biosphere Guides who trained earlier this year to give some feedback on the course, this from Richard, owner of Disdow Cottage at Gatehouse of Fleet:

"The Biosphere Guide Training was a really productive and fun experience, forging links with both the Biosphere and other like-minded individuals. The advice has helped me formulate my rather vague plans into something that is far more concrete and viable and has given me all the tools I need to pursue this and make it successful.

But most importantly, it created a real community - not just the participants on the course but the representatives from the Biosphere and Stef, the trainer. These relationships are invaluable and help us share opportunities and experiences so that we are all successful. This collaboration is what makes the course such a positive experience."

Full details of the course via the link below - applications close on 22/09/22.

https://www.gsabiosphere.org.uk/biosphere-guide-training-course-to-run-again-in-october-2022/

26/08/2022

I am delighted to be returning to the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Unesco Biosphere again in October. Please spread the word.

We're very pleased to announce that our Biosphere Guide Training Course will be running for a second time in 2022. This is four days of free training aimed to equip and empower local people who aspire to run guiding or tour-based businesses in our UNESCO Biosphere. Stef Lauer from Hands On Consulting will be back to deliver the course having certified twelve new Biosphere Guides in March this year at Newton Stewart. To make this training more accessible to residents in and the course in October will be based at . Full details via the link below - applications are open now and will close on 22/09/22.

https://www.gsabiosphere.org.uk/biosphere-guide-training-course-to-run-again-in-october-2022/

09/06/2022

It was great to be part of Jelena Farkić and Maria Gebbels book launch of their book The Adventure Tourist. It's great to have people from Japan, Nepal, India and Germany joining in on our chat. You can get a copy here:
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/the-adventure-tourist/?k=9781800718500

Best of luck with Vol 2 :-)

02/05/2022

Watch out for ticks!

29/04/2022

24/04/2022

Leave no Trace 🌳

A revival of the 'tradition' of hammering coins into trees is having a devastating impact on our woodlands 😢

More and more people are participating in this practice due to a growing ‘fashion’ to make votive offerings for wishes, and we're seeing much damage to trees (including living ones) at our places such as The Hermitage and Dollar Glen.

PLEASE don’t do this! It’s not only harmful to the trees themselves, but it can poison other wildlife as well.

Instead, make a positive difference by donating your coins to the Trust so we can use them to protect our precious woodlands and wildlife.

As a conservation charity, we rely on the generous support of visitors, members and donors to help us continue our vital work in protecting Scotland's rich heritage. From coastlines to castles, art to architecture, wildlife to wilderness, we encourage people to connect with the things that make Scotland unique while protecting them for future generations.

29/03/2022

What a belter of a weekend for Part 2 of the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Unesco Biosphere Guide Training Programme. Lots of learning, networking, trying out new things. A wonderful group of entrepreneurs. Thank you so much for having me facilitate the programme.

Foot Luce Walking Tours
Kirroughtree Forest
Anstey Harris
Walkfest - Newton Stewart
Freelance Ranger

28/02/2022

Read about the mighty oak… in German 😃

Schottland beherbergt einige wunderschöne Eichenwälder und etliche besonders schöne und alte Individuen. In Großbritannien gibt es zwei Hauptarten von Eichen - die englische oder Stieleiche (Common oak), die im Lateinischen als Quercus robur bekannt ist, und die Traubeneiche (sessile oak), die Q...