Hello fellow YMCA Members,
My name is Scott Tunnicliffe, I am 24 years old and living and working in New Zealand.
Since moving to Wanganui, New Zealand from England in January 2009 I have been a devoted YMCA employee. I began with a part time position delivering sports and games, within 18 months had created a physical education programme, developed an archery in schools programme and started numerous other recreation classes. I am now the Recreation Development Manager for the Wanganui YMCA a position I love and wouldn’t give up for the world (I am just putting it on hold for my adventure J)
I am currently planning a tour of Europe during which it is my intention to visit as many European YMCA’s as possible. This trip will give me a chance to explore the diversity of the YMCA as an organisation and the differences between European YMCA programmes, facilities and attitudes from those in New Zealand YMCA’s.
I will be keeping a detailed blog of the trip with photos to bring back and share my story with the YMCA’s across New Zealand and you could be a part of it.
Although a clear travel itinerary has not yet been drawn up I plan to visit around 18 European countries. In each country I will be spending 1 or 2 days in their capital city and possibly another major city.
I am trying to find out as much information as possible on the Various YMCA’s around Europe who would be willing to spend a day or two showing a fellow YMCA’s employee/tourist around their city and also their YMCA facilities (you could even offer to accommodate me for the night).
This would also be a perfect opportunity to share ideas on current programme trends and ideas as well as creating links for a future student, volunteer or employee exchange programme.
If you wish to help me with my big adventure then please email me and we can discuss my ideas further.
I look forward to hearing from you
Many Thanks
Scott Tunnicliffe
scott@ymcawanganui.org.nz
