Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Alexandra Palace is looking for a Volunteer Learning and Community Events Photographer
Volunteer Learning and Community Events Photographer
Role Description
Role Title: |
Volunteer Learning and Community Events Photographer |
Role Summary: |
Alexandra Park & Palace Charitable Trust (APPCT) are looking for someone with a passion for taking photographs to capture images for our website and promotional material showing groups engaging with guides and the history of the Palace during the History Tours of the Palace - Saturday, 12th & Sunday, 13th April. It is hoped the Photographer will also be able support the Learning and Community team with future events. |
Organisation |
Alexandra Palace is a Grade II listed north London landmark built in 1873 as a leisure facility on a grand scale. During the First World War the Park and Palace were used to house Belgian refugees and enemy aliens before becoming the home of the BBC between 1935 and 1981. Alexandra Palace is setting out long term regeneration plans which both promote its heritage and widen public access to the most historically significant areas of the Park and Palace. As part of the wider plans our learning team now deliver cross curricular primary and secondary school workshops which both celebrate its rich heritage whilst enriching the national curriculum. Our programmes engage with audiences of different ages and abilities and celebrate the Park and Palace’s eclectic history through interactive and engaging workshops, art & craft activities and guided tours. |
Outline of tasks: |
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Commitment: |
We are looking for volunteers to commit to minimum of one day per event advanced notice will be given. For the purpose of supporting the History Tours for April the applicant would need to be free on either 12th/13th April. |
Reports to: |
Head of Learning and Community Programmes |
Skills, Qualifications and Personal Qualities Required (Essential): |
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Skills, Qualifications and Personal Qualities Required (Desirable) |
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Standards of behaviour: |
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What could you get out of volunteering with us: |
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How will you be helping us: |
This volunteer role will enable us to improve the service we provide to the local community whilst providing a high quality customer service and information to enhance their experience. |
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Next steps |
To apply please send a CV, examples of work and what interests you about the role, with the subject header Photographer to volunteering@alexandrapalace.com |
Closing date |
Wednesday, 9th April 2014 |
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Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Mel on
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We value our volunteers as many organisations often do, why not take the opportunity to come in and talk to us in person or talk to those that volunteer for us, we have a wide range of volunteers not just "rich kids" to use your phrase.
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Shame on Alexandra Palace for asking people to work for no money. The PR's get wages. Haringey Council purports to pay the living wage, so what's going on here?
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We reimburse volunteers travel and provide them with lunch when volunteering for a full day.
We take our volunteer programme very seriously, and are grateful for the support volunteers provide, our programme provides opportunities for volunteers to develop their skillset and experience new opportunities.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Would the volunteer retain copyright on their photos, ar would they be expected to assign the rights to AP ?
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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"Volunteers engaged in producing work which falls into the category of copyrighted material will be asked to sign a Copyright Assignment Form." From Appendix 13.3 Volunteer Strategy and Policy for Alexandra Palace.
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This needs picketing.
Alexandra Palace PR’s are - paid! Alexandra Palace is owned by Haringey Council. Haringey Council calls on all of its suppliers and partners to pay the London Living Wage.
Shame on them.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Alexandra Palace is owned by Haringey Council
Pam this is not correct. Haringey Council do not own Alexandra Palace.
The council often treat AP as though they own it and you could be forgiven for thinking this was the case. It is a Charitable Trust, where the beneficiaries are you, me and the residents of north London (i.e. not only the residents of this Borough).
By Act of Parliament, the Council is Trustee (i.e. all Councllors) but for administrative convenience, a sub-set of Council Members form a Council Committee known as the Board.
As you may detect, AP has existed and continues to exist, in a legal grey area, where the respective laws and principles of (a) Trust & Charity and (b) Local Government, compete and conflict. As they have done for 30 years.
(I make these points quite separately from issues about volunteers).
Disclosure:
am a prospective councillor candidate
Highgate Ward | Liberal Democrat Party
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Permalink Reply by Straw Cat on
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I can understand the reaction here, because the whole of Ally Pally is an educational charity held in trust - NOT owned - by Haringey Council (you and I, the people of London, literally own it), but that is a fact that was not until relatively recently exactly bigged up by Palace management and the trustees, who preferred to give the impression it was some kind of private conference centre. The historic bits (where unpaid volunteers have been working for years to safeguard them) were kept almost secret by the corporatist management, who pretended that they had all been burnt to ashes. I'm sure you are aware that activists from the Save Ally Pally campaign had to go to the High Court to stop it being flogged off to an ex-slum landlord.
The shock from that defeat meant that the council had a welcome rethink about their strategy and realized that they should be celebrating the historic areas - the world's first TV studios, the Theatre - rather than letting them be destroyed by neglect. But the control-freak instinct remains - they are gradually taking over the care of and tours of the historic parts, but making sure they recruit and tightly control all the new volunteers - what is said to visitors on the tours, for instance, who may have some embarrassing questions about why the TV studios and theatre were allowed to get into such a shocking state of disrepair over the last twenty years. The new volunteeers do get expenses - but any who display too much "independence" will I suspect find their services dispensed with fairly quickly.
The truth is that the whole Palace is an educational establishment in which some areas are allowed to run commercial events to subsidize the educational and recreational facilities.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Speaking as someone who now earns his living with a lens, I don't have a problem with this. Let's not be too precious; all charitable organisations have paid staff and a volunteer corps. There's nothing unusual in that. This might be a good opportunity for someone looking to build up a portfolio as a springboard for a career involving photography.
I'm really not sure where the ethical boundaries lie between which roles are properly paid and which should be volunteer ones. I imagine this is an well-rehearsed debate. Does anyone know what are the standard positions and their underpinning logic?
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