Guiding course builds skills for future Argyll ambassadors
A project to train Argyll’s next generation of visitor guides has been completed at Kilbride’s historic kirkyard in Lerags Glen near Oban.
The five tour guide trainees, aged 16 and over, embarked on a three-day course from March 18-20, run by experienced tour guide Margaret Hubbard.
The young participants developed the skills they’ll need to be passionate and knowledgeable ambassadors for Scotland, specifically Historic Kilbride which consists of an 18th century church and more than 300 gravestones.
The two-day instructional and one-day practical events were held at Historic Kilbride, where participants immersed themselves in the rich history and practiced the guiding skills they learnt on a walking tour around Oban.
The project, Heritage Horizons, aims to address the challenges of an aging workforce by building youth employability-skills for young people across Argyll and Bute.
It is funded by the ScottishPower Foundation and run by the Argyll and Bute Museums and Heritage Forum and the charity CHARTS, a network working to create a sustainable future for the culture, heritage and arts sector in Argyll.