Activities and Operations Administrator

Children’s Sailing Trust is a charity based in Cornwall that offers access to sailing and watersports to children aged 8-14, as well as young people with additional needs. We are passionate about using these activities as a tool to develop confidence, competence and resilience, enabling participants to reach their full potential in life. One of our key beliefs is that all children and young people should have the same opportunity to learn sailing and watersports, irrespective of financial challenges, disabilities or special educational needs.

Our charity has been working on the Helford River since 1997, taking local children, young people and adults sailing, kayaking and paddleboarding through our term-time schools’ programme. The organisation also offers commercial after school, weekend and holiday courses to generate funds that feed back into the sustainable running of the Charity. Children’s Sailing Trust is a growing organisation

and opened its second location and HQ late 2021 – a fully-accessible watersports centre and holiday accommodation at Trevassack Lake, a converted freshwater serpentine quarry on The Lizard peninsula.

Complementing our activities on the Helford River, Trevassack Lake enables us to offer more to a wider range of participants with specialist equipment that allows watersports opportunities for all.

The Role

CST Trading C.I.C. (the trading arm of the Charity) has a fun and varied vacancy for an Activities and Operations Administrator within our small but committed team. This role is an opportunity for the right candidate to really make a difference for guests and visitors to Trevassack Lake. The role is currently

offered to 31st October 2025 (possibility of a permanent position at the end of this time period) on a fixed term contract for full-time 37.5 hours per week, based at Trevassack Lake and could include working the occasional Saturday or Sunday on a flexible basis.

The primary role of the Activities and Operations Administrator is to support the smooth running of the charity’s work at Trevassack Lake and the Helford River and ensure a high level of service is always provided.

You’ll be working to directly support the Activities Manager alongside the watersports team members where required, which could be on land or on water (on the water training provided as required), but always working to support our charitable aims, including our commercial (non-profit) offerings.

You need to be comfortable in a customer facing role, just as much at ease talking to a business leader, visitor or a child with additional needs. You’ll be capable and a very well organised individual who has a great working knowledge of all aspects of Microsoft Office and will have used booking systems before. A background in using Customer Relations Management (CRM) systems would also be an advantage.

As you would expect working for a small charity, no two days are the same and we all ‘muck in’ to help achieve the bigger picture – which is part of what will make working for Children’s Sailing Trust so enjoyable.