Volunteers for School Visits

The Go Teaching Services page [1] lists Go teachers Peter Wendes and Tony Atkins as available to run introductory sessions in schools and other youth groups. There may be a fee for such sessions.

Volunteer Visitors

Here are some of our members who have expressed interest in visiting schools and other youth groups:

Adrian Abrahams	Lancashire	NW
Nick Allday	Oxfordshire	S
Steve Bailey	Surrey	S
Steve Burgess	Cambs	EA
Barry Chandler	Berkshire	TV
John Culmer	Cornwall	SW
Andrew Gardner	Suffolk	EA
John Garner	Devon	SW
Martin Harvey	Manchester	NW
Charles Matthews	Cambs	EA
Jay Rastall	London	L
Alex Selby	Cambs	EA
Peter Smith	Cambs	EA
Richard Thompson	Leics	EM
Nick Wedd	Oxford	TV
Tom Widdicombe	Devon	SW
Matthew Woodcraft	Cambs	EA

Letter to Schools

When we assign volunteers to visit schools, a standard letter should be sent to the contact at the school, with the wording given below. In this, the words "He/she will co-operate with your normal process and policies for appointing volunteers" refer to DfES guidelines for head teachers and are a non-negative, non-bossy way of saying that we assume that the school will instigate any checks and other risk management procedures its head teacher considers necessary under those guidelines.

*** STANDARD LETTER FOR SENDING TO SCHOOL CONTACTS ***

Dear [name of teacher],
Thank you for contacting the BGA to arrange for a Go player to visit [name of school] to give a first introduction to the game of Go. I am happy to confirm that [name of volunteer] is available to visit you ,
   arriving at [time] on [date] /
   and will contact you to agree a date and time.

If you would like [name] to make further visits to the school to help with Go, please would you arrange it directly with him/her.

He/she will co-operate with your normal process and policies for appointing volunteers.

Yours sincerely,
[name]
[BGA title]