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Port Sunlight Village Trust has published the Spring Edition of the village newsletter, the Port Sunlight Gazette, which is hand delivered to every household in the village.
It includes news and information from Port Sunlight Village Trust, village groups and societies, local businesses, and other important stakeholders. Check it out here or download a copy to keep here.
If you are looking for something to do between Christmas and New Year, why not download the new Port Sunlight Tour App for free and experience this special village like never before!
Using augmented reality technology, there are three exciting tour themes to choose from: Making it Happen, Life at Port Sunlight and Port Sunlight at War. At your own leisure, visitors can choose to do one tour at a time or discover all three during your visit and enjoy finding out all about what it was like growing up in the village from going to school to dancing the night away in Hulme Hall? Or to see footage of what the landscape looked like before William Lever embarked on his exciting vision to turn the land into what we know today.
You can pick a point of interest from the tour map on the app and then be whisked away to another lifetime to see how Port Sunlight developed over time into the beautiful village you see today.
Visit tour.portsunlightvillage.com to find out more and to download the app.
Conservation and Maintenance Manager
Permanent contract
Salary: £27k – £30k depending on experience
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic conservation professional to lead the delivery of Port Sunlight’s day-today conservation and maintenance responsibilities. You will be a strong manager adept at working effectively with contractors, colleagues, consultants, local authorities and running complex projects, with experience of line management. Knowledge of building conservation and planning policy is essential.
The Conservation and Maintenance Manager will be responsible for the maintenance and sensitive repair of the residential properties, garages, roads, footpaths, and principal buildings owned by Port Sunlight Village Trust (PSVT). This includes both the day-to-day repairs and annual maintenance checks ensuring PSVT is Health & Safety compliant.
This post comes at an exciting moment in PSVT’s evolution. In 2022 we will review the Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO), one of only two currently operational LLBCOs in the country, review our 10-year Conservation Management and Estate Management Plans; engage and collaborate with key village stakeholders to action the Environmental Sustainability Strategy; prioritise repairs highlighted in the condition assessment of our monuments and landscape features; and develop an enforcement strategy.
There are many benefits to working for PSVT including generous holiday allocation and Medicash scheme, a strong emphasis on workforce health, wellbeing and engagement, and a beautiful working environment.
Port Sunlight Village Trust (PSVT) and the Institute of Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester are partnering in an 18-month project to transform the ways in which Port Sunlight’s history and collections are interpreted and understood.
The project will be led by an Inclusive Heritage Associate, a new and dedicated post, for which recruitment is about to commence. The focus of their work will be to design and deliver a number of pilot projects in relation to the village’s founder William Lever and the exploitation of Lever Brothers’ Congolese employees in the 20th century.
The post is funded through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) award, a UK Government scheme intended to promote sustained and mutually beneficial relationships between universities and industry.
The Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) has had a profound effect on the museum and heritage sector, calling into question the ways in which we discuss and deal with racial prejudice in the UK. The demand for action on questions of sensitive heritage continues to grow. This project represents an important part of Port Sunlight’s response.
Until recently, the story of Port Sunlight’s founding, by industrialist William Lever, has centred on his deserved reputation for philanthropy and support for progressing worker’s rights in the last century. However, PSVT recognises that it is now critical for the organisation to explore a fuller story of the village’s founder, encompassing, amongst other storylines, the exploitation of Lever Brother’s Congolese employees during the twentieth century.
Paul Harris, CEO of PSVT said:
“It’s time to start talking about all aspects of Port Sunlight’s history and legacy, the good and the bad. Not only is it the right thing to […]
Port Sunlight Village Trust has published the Winter Edition of the village newsletter, the Port Sunlight Gazette, which is hand delivered to every household in the village.
It includes news and information from Port Sunlight Village Trust, village groups and societies, local businesses, and other important stakeholders. Check it out here or download a copy to keep here.
Visitor Services Assistants – Casual
Salary: National Minimum/Living Wage depending on eligibility.
Port Sunlight Village Trust (PSVT) is an independent charity founded in 1999. We are guardians of a unique and beautiful village. Our vision is ‘to make Port Sunlight an inspiring place to live, work and visit’.
Founded in 1888 by industrialist William Lever, Port Sunlight was built for the workers of his nearby Lever Brothers soap factory. Today the village is home to 2,000 residents and pre-pandemic received in the region of 300,000 visitors each year.
PSVT’s current visitor offer, The Port Sunlight Experience, comprises Port Sunlight Museum, the Edwardian Worker’s Cottage Experience, and SoapWorks. Visitors can also enjoy tours and trails of the village and an indoor and outdoor events programme.
We are seeking to recruit new staff to increase the visitor services team and meet the needs of the new visitor offer. You will work as part of the Visitor Services Team to ensure the highest levels of customer service standards are maintained at all times, maximise income through ticket, Gift Aid and retail sales, and create a safe and welcoming environment for all. This is a people centred role, in a fast-paced environment, working across three venues in Port Sunlight.
If you are passionate about customer service, team work and history then please get in touch.
Applicants should have previous experience working in a retail and/or visitor services role in an attraction, museum or art gallery setting and/or demonstrable skills and experience.
For an application pack and more information visit our Jobs and Volunteering page or contact PSVT on 0151 644 4800 or [email protected] Please note CVs will not be accepted. More information about […]
Business Support Officer (Conservation and Maintenance)
Full time permanent contract
Salary: £18.5 k – £21k depending on experience
Port Sunlight Village Trust (PSVT) is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Port Sunlight Conservation Area. The village is the finest surviving example of early urban planning in the UK. It is also one of the Liverpool City Region’s premier visitor attractions and home to over 2,000 residents.
Our responsibilities are broad and our business diverse. We maintain all of the parks, gardens, and monuments and memorials in the village. We own one-third of the housing stock – some 300 properties – and eight of the public buildings from which we derive our primary source of income.
The Operations Directorate is responsible for Housing Management, Maintenance and the operational delivery of Heritage Conservation, Landscape and Public Space Management, Customer Service at reception, Cleaning, Security and Community Engagement in relation to Estate Management issues.
We are seeking to recruit a Business Support Officer (Conservation and Maintenance) to join our busy Operations Directorate. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining relevant administrative systems and creating and monitoring reports efficiently and effectively. They will also support PSVT’s delivery of conservation and maintenance programmes which will include communicating with tenants, contractors and the Conservation Maintenance Officer on day to day repairs, processing works orders and organising access to properties.
A summary of the attributes include:
Being Port Sunlight chronicles the personal experiences of Port Sunlight’s residents, groups and businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Full of personal reminiscences, video footage and images relating to lockdown from groups, families and individuals.
The exhibition is an emotional and fascinating display of how we lived through this time of change.
The content for the exhibition has been drawn from Be Port Sunlight, an online hub containing a fascinating archive of audio-visual material which conveys as sense of life during the 2020 pandemic.
Featuring everything from homemade NHS ‘thank you’ signs and pandemic poetry to virtual pubs and a lockdown love bench, it all provides a snapshot of the intimate and shared moments which occurred in one historic village and conversation area during this time.
For more information on the online hub, visit www.beportsunlight.co
Admission to Being Port Sunlight is free and no pre-booking is required. COVID-related safety measures including social distancing and limited visitor numbers will be in place.
Opening Hours: Every Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 3pm, until 19th September 2021
Location: Being Port Sunlight is located in the Port Sunlight Church Hall, Bridge Street CH62 4US