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Please see the link below for more information https://goodmoves.org/vacancy/a4sP1000001F25lIAC/centre-manager Role Glasgow Watersports operates Pinkston Watersports in Port Dundas close to the city centre. This is a unique self-sustaining charity and urban community sports hub. Pinkston is home to Scotland’s only artificial white-water course with a large clean water canal basin. The Centre was an official legacy project of the Commonwealth Games 2014. The Centre is a key venue for outdoor adventures both on and off the water, learning for schools and communities, for water rescue delivery and for club venue hire and secure storage. Strategically Pinkston is about driving connection in our community, through activity, and opportunity. Our focus is around skill building both physically and across a range of meta skills for young people, groups and others attending for single sessions or regularly with local clubs, community or uniformed…

Pinkston Youth Forum: The River Spey Expedition On the Friday morning of the September weekend, schools were closed, and Pinkston was quiet — except for a group of eight young people preparing for something they’d been working towards for weeks. Members of the Pinkston Youth Forum were checking kit, packing drybags, and loading canoes before…

Over ten weeks from July through to September, our Youth Forum took on a challenge that started right here at Pinkston and ended 191 miles away at Spey Bay, a beautiful coastal reserve, following an expedition on one of Scotland’s classic canoe expeditions. The Youth Forum, was not just about learning to paddle or planning…

Welcome to Pinkston’s first ever safety bulletin! From the staff members and Directors at Pinkston, we would like to share some information with you around the health and safety decisions that are made. Accident reporting : Safety is everyone’s responsibility. We work very hard behind the scenes to ensure our site, facilities and activities are as safe as possible for site users and the general public. To make this easier for us, we ask that any and all incidents at Pinkston are reported to us as well as your own company/organisation. This allows us to respond quickly to significant incidents and identify any patterns or trends of smaller incidents. This would include any slips and trips around the centre and allows us to keep on top of our site maintenance. Incident report forms are available in the office. When filling…

Pinkston Watersports is home to Scotland’s only artificial white-water course; a community paddlesports centre with a clean water basin. As a charity, Pinkston works with a variety of people within the community as well as being open to the public for both paddlesports and dry land activities. These versatile roles require skills across a wide…

Customer service and admin role at Pinkston Watersports Pinkston is recruiting for a customer focused administrator (22.5 hours pw (.6FTE) / 6 month contract initially, with an option for an additional 1 year maternity cover) The focus of this role is to promote a positive customer experience for those enquiring, booking and visiting Pinkston Watersports,…

Join us at Pinkston Watersports on Sunday the 21st November and help us raise as much money as possible for the Beatson Cancer Charity!

Pinkston Watersports are looking for a new Financial Analyst – could it be you? 

Pinkston Watersports is home to Scotland’s ONLY Artificial White Water course. We are so proud of this and want as many people to be able to use the course as possible. Since opening, our long course has seen whitewater kayakers, slalom competitions, film crews, fire and rescue services, white water rafters, and many many (unintentional)…

PINKSTON REOPENING PLANS Following recent announcements we are excited now to be working towards a firm reopening date of 1st April for all activities, subject to ongoing travel restrictions. This means that any bookings that are in the calendar after this date we will assume are going ahead. Where possible we will contact any groups…