Our team

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Our Centre Team is responsible for the day-to-day running and development of the South London Scout Centre

Their centre management responsibilities include:

  • The day-to-day management and operation of the centre
  • Overall finance and budget control
  • Centre administration
  • premises policies
  • health and safety
  • Volunteer support structure  
  • Centre branding and publicity

Their centre development responsibilities include:

  • Overarching operations and project management
  • Project finance and budget control
  • Project administration – direction of the project and development plan
  • Scope of works
  • Fundraising campaign
  • Communications and marketing
  • Membership and stakeholder consultation 

The Fort Team members

  1. County Lead Volunteer – Darren Lodge
  2. SLSC Warden – Gordon Carr
  3. County Chair – Becca Smith
  4. Jason Hagan 
  5. Liz Fricker
  6. Martyn Bain
  7. County Volunteer Services Manager – Matt Butterfield 
  8. David Hanwell
  9. Mark Doverty

 

Project milestones:

  • Undertake a prioritising exercise to establish our order of works
  • Develop a long-term and short-term development plan
  • Identify and define the roles and role responsibilities of the centre development management team
  • Recruit and establish a focussed and experienced centre development management team - Which is a sub-committee of the county executive committee
  • Identify our critical success and risk factors
  • Establish a fundraising campaign sub-team
  • Establish a marketing and communications sub-team
  • Engage with our members and regular users to help identify what we need from our centre in the 2030s, 2040s and beyond.
  • Develop an outline ‘master project plan’ taking in to account the results of our consultation
  • Create a detail phased scope of works
  • Tender for quotations for each stage of the development process
  • Tender and appoint an architect to partner with us to develop a long-term plan for the centre?
  • Develop a finalised ‘master development project plan’
  • Submit the finalised master project plan to the county executive committee

which includes:

  • scope of works
  • stages of works
  • funding plan
  • marketing and communications plan
  • project deadlines
  • risk assessments and safety management plan
  • issues and risk register
  • start works in line with the agreed schedule of works and project plan
  • works commence in line with funding and the schedule of works