Creating and conducting guided tours
Creating and conducting guided tours
This unit is designed to prepare the learner to deliver guided tours in a range of settings including indoor and outdoor heritage sites. Tour locations are restricted to areas within 30 minutes of emergency responders. Learners will carry out historical research, plan a route, risk assess the route, explore the area, create content, deliver a 2-stop guided walk, take measures to ensure the safety and maintain the interest of walk participants, and reflect on their performance.
Find out about the Creating Guided Tours training that the Our Heritage ,Our Future team can provide for your community group.
Volunteers and staff from Healthy and Active in East Kilbride completed guided tour training. As a result, they have connected with other local heritage groups, gained a qualification and, most importantly, learnt more about their community and environment. The team also gained Heritage Hero Awards from Archaeology Scotland for the work they completed with us.
Candidates from the Make Your Way project, part of Community Action Lanarkshire, completed their Creating and conducting guided tours training and assessment. They planned and conducted their tours around the town centre and focussed on local landmarks, such as, Strathaven Castle and the Town Mill Arts and Heritage Centre.
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Claire Lees, a member of the Healthy and Active in East Kilbride team, gave us some great feedback about what she enjoyed most about the training and how it will help her combine local heritage with the activities she runs.
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Keep Scotland Beautiful’s Our Heritage, Our Future team has started work with communities in Sutherland, the Western Isles and Falkirk to bring heritage alive through training to support the planning and delivery of heritage walking tours.
Creating and conducting tours is one of the units candidates can complete to achieve a new Certificate in Cultural Heritage, credit rated by Qualifications Scotland, as part of the Our Heritage, Our Future programme. The aim of the qualification is to support people to understand the importance of our built, natural and cultural heritage in Scotland, develop specific heritage-related skills and celebrate success of all candidates.
Visit our Heritage and climate skills page to learn more.
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