Marshals Training Day – Free Mini-Event!

Marshal Training Day!

Free Mini-Event.

We are looking to employ marshals for the 2016 season. If you have already attended an event since 2011 you automatically qualify. If you have not yet been to an event but would like to be part of the UK’s first and only survival training and live-action non-combat horror experience based in South Wales then read on.

We are looking for ten new Marshals and two new Marketing Managers. Do you have what it takes to survive? Do you have what it takes to take Zombie Survival Weekender to the next level?

10am, Saturday 20^th February @ secret woods in South Wales
(location given to those who email info@zombiesw.co.uk to register your interest)

Come and have a free version of the standard events to show off your skills and fortitude for adventure and leadership.

It is a day event only, as it’s February and will be chilly.There will be the option to ‘wild camp’, you are welcome to bring basic camping gear for the chance to get to know us better. Please bring only as much as you can carry in one trip.

ZSW are looking for enthusiastic, confident, knowledgeable people with good leadership, a good understanding of the importance of teamwork and excellent communication skills. All marshals need to be relatively fit as they will be expected to climb steep hills and walk unaided with some lifting and carrying.

There will be an informal friendly getting-to-know-you chat/interview process throughout the day.

The ideal candidates would have one or more of the following (but not essential):

-First Aid
-Food Hygiene
-Fire Marshal
-Military background
-A sense of adventure

-Those interested in the Marketing Manager position would benefit from having a computer, phone and a printer. Microsoft Word, Publisher and Excel, Good knowledge of Social Media and other marketing tools is essential.

At standard events teams earn points, the most points wins. Throughout this training day individuals will earn points for themselves and the best participants will be invited to marshal events throughout 2016.

Prep for the training day:
You have to do some homework.

The more you put into the event the more you will get out of it. The more points you get, the more likely you will be invited to marshal for ZSW.

1-Survival Kits: see the website ‘Useful Info’ section with instruction on how to put together a basic survival kit.

2-Character Backstory: Some events are in character, so we’d like to see your creativity. Your character needs a story, whats yours? Again see the ‘Useful Info’ section of the website for ideas.

3-Skill Share: The core to the events. You need to do the homework that our participants are expected to do… Please prepare at least one skill share for the training day. Again see the ‘Useful Info’ section of the website for the ‘How To’ guide.

4-Games Master: We already have an ever growing pool of mini-games but we’re always looking to develop, expand and create new challenges. ZSW are asking that the marshals to plan and create their own mini-games. Please ask if you have any questions about this important homework. The specifications of the games:
-You are able to talk and explain your game confidently and clearly.
-Games must take 2-5 minutes for players to complete.
-Make a price plan for costs in Materials to make/repair/replace.
-Equipment for game use must not be too big or heavy for one person to carry over rough terrain.
-Weatherproof. Your game needs to be wind and rain proof.
-Easy to play in the dark/torchlight.
-Adjustable complexity: easy/kids/drunks levels to expert/hard/difficult levels.

If you make/build a prototype for your game you will earn extra points for yourself.

5-Tribute– This event is free, for a tribute we are after glow-sticks (the thin necklace types), as many as you can get your grubby little paws on. Points for glow-sticks. Easy!

6- Zombie Make-up competition: Marshaling duties will sometimes include the painting of participants zombie faces. Get practicing your horror SFX make up for the events competition. Either use our Zombie Make up or bring your own and you will be given a face to zombify in 10 minutes.

This will be a fun exciting free mini-event, with the chance to find out more about ZSW, help develop it further and become part of the adventure.

Drinking fine, Drunkenness not.

Bring cameras, camcorders, go-pros etc if you would like your footage used in our new promo video.

Any questions please ask, email info@zombiesw.co.uk

Do you have what it takes to survive?

Cardiff Zombie Walk 2015 Review:

Phew it’s all over for another year! So glad we’re not straight off on our big charity expedition the next day like last year, we leave for London on Friday so fortunately I have a week to recover as I’m knackered!

Thank you to everyone who braved the drizzle to attend this years Cardiff Zombie Walk. It was a real shame that there was a bit of rain, but it is Wales, what are we to expect! Huge well done to everybody who turned up to take part. Despite over twice as many people saying they were going to come as last year on the Facebook event page, unfortunately it was about the same size as last year. Next year we wont be put off by the rain, hopefully it won’t rain and there will be the promised hundreds who said they were coming that chickened out!

The set up…
…was much more professional than last year, we had the ZSW zombification tent full of Make-up artists, We had: Stacey Williams, Amy Salter, Lee Morgan, Sophia Pritchard and Sean Chick all doing a great job making up people as zombies for donations.

 

Thank you very much to the hospitality again of the Ernest Willows where we started and ended the walk. Because of the drizzle they put out the awning and we had the very talented photographer-

Antti Karppinen (http://anttikarppinen.com/2015/05/corporate-headshots-of-zombies/ )

Taking zombie portraits for us all.

We had a great mix of people, adults, students, teens, families and kids. And next year there will be lots more of us! We talked briefly about the three charities we were raising money for. We sold Raffle tickets, (see below for raffle results) all raising money for our three charities… People got made up had drinks and food. Before we left we had a quick Zombie 101 Training session where people practised shuffling and groaning effectively! -”zombie noise”

The Walk-

We then left as a group along the planned route, down Newport Road, down Queen Street where we had the most fun, handing out flyers for ZSW, getting donations from members of the public, being filmed by Wales Online who wrote a great article about the event with pictures and video here: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/zombies-queen-street-cardiff-charity-9172388

shocking, scaring and entertaining members of the public along the way. Down the Hayes where the drizzle got a little heavier, we cut through an arcade onto St Mary’s Street. As the rain was a bit miserable now we shortened the route a little, we decided not to go through the park as it was unlikely there would be many people there so we walked back up Queen Street doing a few set pieces chasing a ‘survivor’ down the road.

We made it back to The Ernest Willows for more drinks and relax.

The group had dissipated by the time I came to announce the best Zombie winner.
There were great efforts made by our five Make-up artists, But I my two favourite zombies were both made by the same person, I couldn’t choose myself, that wouldn’t be fair so…

The best Zombie of Cardiff Zombie Walk 2015 was: Daniel Burston
He wins a free ticket to Junes Zombie Survival Weekender.

Daniel was made up by the talented Stacey Williams: https://www.facebook.com/roguecreativehairandmakeupartist?fref=ts Rogue hair and makeup artist

The Afterparty:

We shuffled along to the Full Moon Pub on Womanby Street (thank you again to the owner and staff for hosting us) they had the Red Sun Metal Festival going on this weekend upstairs and so there were plenty of people around to help with our low numbers!

We had a vegan bake sale for donation with vegan, cakes, cookies, sos rolls, pasties, pizzas and other goodies, and an Animal Rights info stall from Cardiff Animal Rights manned by Sarah Williams-Baker.

And we had three Bands thank you very much to:

-Between Waves: Between Waves – “A different take on Metal” www.facebook.com/BetweenWaves

-anOise: Experimental noise who played last year. www.facebook.com/ANOISE

and
-DeadEndFriends: Dead End Friends- Bluesy Rock www.facebook.com/thedeadendfriends

And thank you to our spoken word act Nicodemus Ruben www.facebook.com/NicodemusPoetry who performed some of his thought provoking poems.

Few hitches but we got there in the end, we drew the raffle as the last band one of the Metal bands from the Red Sun Festival did an acoustic set and then we packed down and went home!
The Raffle:

Here are the ticket numbers and the prizes a few have gone unclaimed from the night so if that’s your number please email me at info@zombiesw.co.uk ‘

45-Zombie Survival Weekender donates two tickets for the July event worth £110.

80-A Zombie makeover from Nightmares SFX

48-youniqueproducts.com/ElsaWarren – 3d fiber lash mascara $29 https://www.youniqueproducts.com/…/product_i…/US-1017-00.jpg

3-Llinos Pritchard Print –https://www.facebook.com/celfllinosart/photos/np.1430495125315096.1318719622/833992703322057/?type=1

73-£15 voucher for tattoos or piercings from Two Hearts Tattoo Studio, Whitchurch Road,

20-Dash Rendars Outrider Star Wars collectable, worth £25 from Fish4Comics, Whitchurch Road,

13-Boots donated: Biotherm products (£18.99) Boots Donated: Zen for men Shower Gel (£14)

67-Bodyshop Donated a 30pc samples pack.

65-Rules of Play Donated Zombies Game worth £23

27-Blue Banana Donated a £20 piercing voucher.

53-Foxglove Therapies donated a £30 Reiki Session

36-Nia Griffiths Hair Donated a free cut and Blowdry.

40-Beanfreaks Donated a set of Bathroom scales.

Other prizes include:

64 + 62-Two bottles of wine
70-A Zombie Survival Weekender Chopping Board
25-An Artists Sketching Set
60-A Crisis Charity T-shirt.
11-A CALM Save the Male T-shirt.

Money Raised:
With the rain during the day putting people off attending we still did really well.

Most people didn’t donate to get into the afterparty because they had all paid for wristbands for the Metal Festival and so didn’t want to pay anymore even though it was for charity (something to consider for next year!)

We made most money from the make-up donations, the raffle and the collection through the street.

The event managed to raise £256.78 for the three chosen charities:

Crisis- The homeless charity.
CALM: The Campaign Against Living Miserably – The male suicide prevention charity.

And
The Blue Cross- The animal charity/

This figure will go into the pot together with the money we are raising during next weeks charity Trek walking 161miles from London to Cardiff. And will be split equally between the three charities.

If you haven’t donated yet you can donate/sponsor us here:

http://www.gofundme.com/pwtmik

The vegan Bake sale also managed to raise £32.26 for Cardiff Animal Rights from the sale of their vegan food, (although Sarah did sell my dinner!).

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CRITISISM AGAINST CARDIFF ZOMBIE WALK

I’ve just read some concerns from people on the Wales Online coverage of the event that I thought I would address.

I am the organiser of Cardiff Zombie Walk. I am also a parent. And Cardiff Zombie Walk is a family friendly event which has children attend every year.

My business Zombie Survival Weekender also has a youth and family event (22-23rd August) where parents and their children get to learn essential survival skills and have a camping trip and enjoy a child friendly horror experience.

A lot of research and thought has gone into involving children in scare events. We explore the psychology of fear, what makes us scared, why we are afraid, what is real and what is pretend, feeling safe enjoying fear. Etc.

One of my favourite parts of being in the ever growing UK scare industry is not the scaring, the shock, the jump, the flinch, the fight or flight, rabbit-in-a-headlight scared moment… My favourite part is the relief filled smile as the fear ebbs away, the relaxed joy and warm safe feeling everyone gets as the heart stops racing and the panic is over, usually resulting in beaming smiles, giggling laughter. This post-fright relief is empowering and something I am proud to give to people of all ages both at my businesses events ( www.zombiesw.co.uk) and at my free events I put on for charity (e.g Cardiff Zombie Walk)

This year we are raising money for three charities; Crisis-the homeless charity, CALM-the (Campaign Against Living Miserably)-the male suicide prevention charity and The Blue Cross the animal charity. All three are aware we are raising money for them and have supported us in our fundraising efforts with promo-material, collection tins, balloons etc…

If anybody would like to talk to me further about any concerns they have please don’t hesitate to contact me at: info@zombiesw.co.uk

Thank you again for everyone who helped make this years Cardiff Zombie Walk a success!

Don’t forget there are tickets available for the first event of 2015 June 6-7th.

Only £55 per person for 30+ hours of survival training and live-action non-combat horror experience. no other event offers so much content for such great value and there is also brilliant group discounts available!

http://zombiesw.co.uk/homepage/prices-and-discounts/ 

If you use the promocode ‘Dombie’ to show you’ve read this I’ll give you £5 off too so only £50 for a whole weekends adventure!

Behind-the-Scenes of tomorrows TV interview…

Today was a great day with a new batch of MUA’s, we had a productive workshop making all sorts of prosthetics and practicing techniques…

We then went on to have an interview with MadeInCardiffTV, which will be aired tomorrow on Channel 134 Sky (23 Freeview, 159 Virgin Media) at 8pm and 10pm; see my beautiful self talking about this Saturday’s Cardiff Zombie Walk, the three charities we’re fundraising for this year, the epic charity trek and Zombie Survival Weekender, while three of my new MUA’s zombify the delightful Amy Pay.

For more info on this Saturday’s Cardiff Zombie Walk, The after party benefit gig, the three charities we’re fundraising for and the epic charity trek click here:

http://zombiesw.co.uk/2015/03/30/cardiff-zombie-walk-and-after-party-charity-gig/

Youth and Family Event:

Youth and Family Zombie Survival Weekender Event:

When:
22nd-23rd August 2015, from 10am Saturday 22nd August. Till around 3pm Sunday 23rd August.

Location:
Zombie Survival Weekender HQ: Egwysilian Mountain, 10miles north of Cardiff.

Adults and Children Learning together:

This is a unique opportunity for you and your children to learn and teach together in a structured exciting fun environment. Learning and sharing real useful survival skills, people from all backgrounds, abilities and experience are able to participate. You’ll be surprised what comes naturally to children and what we take for granted that they already know how to do, and you’ll surprise yourself and your children with what you know, and can teach them.

Children and Facing Fear:

A lot of thought has gone into the psychology of fear and the development and confrontation of phobias. A section of the event is devoted to exploring and discussing, what makes us scared; what are we afraid of? What is real and what is irrational fear, overcoming our fears and anxiety and feeling safe. At no point throughout the event will your child feel out of control or ‘too’ scared they will always have you with them, and the game is a milder child-friendly version of the adults full-on game.

Activities:

• Learning real bushcraft and survival techniques and skills that would help you and your young ones to stay alive in a genuine survival situation.

• Team building and inter-team challenges and games.

• Camping, Bonfire, BBQ.

• Fun child-friendly, evening/nights zombie avoidance game.

• Discussion and debate, survival theory.

• Award ceremony, litter sweep and pack-down.

Benefits:

• Confidence building and leadership development.
• Listening and speaking, concentration and independence.
• Problem solving and critical thinking.
• Focused learning with children and adults working together.
• An exciting memorable experience for the whole family.

Times:

The event is around 30 hours long, with everyone arriving at the site for 10am on the Saturday morning, we start with the safety briefing registration and splitting into groups.

We then spend the Saturday learning survival skills, bushcraft, first aid, self defense, camp craft etc. this learning experience will be broken up with exciting inter-team challenges and games and regular breaks.

In the evening we have a bonfire, BBQ (bring your own food to cook over the fire, or grab dinner at the on site pub restaurant) and relax around the fire.

We then have an exciting youth friendly version of our usual nights game, the game has been specially tailored for our young participants, so that the horror is turned down but the fun and excitement is still there, everyone gets a chance to be human survivors trying to solve missions, challenges and games without being caught by zombies. If you get caught by a zombie then you make your way to the zombification tent get turned into a zombie and then go out and try and catch the survivors…

Standard event adult games can go on as late as 3am but we will be tailoring the game so that the childrens group will be finished at around 9pm (once its dark) and the youth group will be finished at 10.30-11pm.

People can either sit around the fire or go back to their tents for the night, tired and satisfied.

The next day we have breakfast (bring your own food, or, if arranged beforehand, breakfast may be available at the on site pub) and then we play more games and have talks and child focused debate on survival as a group. We then have an awards ceremony, litter sweep, pack down and go home.

Ages:

This event is open to children of all ages and abilities and their parent/guardian/carers. Groups will be split into rough age groups and the activities will be appropriate to each group.

0-3years will be introduced to camping and outdoors on the most basic level for our infants group.

3-10years will be in our Childrens Group and will be shown various exciting survival skills that they will get hands on practice and experience themselves to try, and full on exciting activites and games, challenges, missions, quests and riddles.

10-17years, the Youth Group, will be taking these skills further and teaching each other their own skills they have prepared as homework before the event. They will get to show their skills and survival kits and will get to enjoy the exciting nights game for longer too.

Price:

• Tickets for ‘adults’   – £55
• 10-17years ‘youths’ – £30
• 3-10year ‘children’   – £15
• under 3 free.

• Family tickets (2x adults, 2x youth/children = £140)

(Each child must be accompanied by an adult 1:1 If you do not have enough adults to cover your children one-to-one or have more adults than children please get in contact and we’ll endeavour to bridge this gap with buddy systems, this is to ensure the safety and well being of all participants.)

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask: info@zombiesw.co.uk

Private Youth Events are also available minimum of 20 participants per event.

ZSW presents: Cardiff Zombie Walk & Afterparty/Charity Gig 2015:

Cardiff Zombie Walk Route 2015:

Like last year we will be starting from The Ernest Willows Pub on City Road, between 12-2pm for Drinks, Make-up, Raffle and talks about our three chosen charities this year.

For a donation you can get the basic make-up, for bigger donations: £5-10+ you can get a more detailed gory SFX make-up done. (Marshals and Make-up artists please arrive from 12pm to go through everything and get made up first) We have an amount of Make-up kit but people are encouraged to bring their own make up, and any aspiring SFX people are welcome to lend a hand getting people made up too!

There is a prize for the best/most unique zombie costume… be warned you will get gory so don’t wear your best jeans/trainers if you don’t want ‘blood’ on them.

We will be in the garden area of the Ernest Willows out back getting our zombie make-up done and talking about the three charities we’re raising for this year: Crisis; the homeless charity, CALM; the male suicide prevention charity and the Blue Cross; animal rescue charity with guest speakers and hopefully press too. We’ll also talk about ZSW, The after party/benefit gig and the big charity expedition leaving the next week.

2-2.30pm – The walk leaves Ernest Willows on City Road, walking slowly, marshals at front and rear, with radios. And collection buckets. We’ll walk down turning right onto Newport Road.

-Keeping to the footpaths we’ll follow Newport Road round till we cross onto Queens Street.

-Shuffling down the length of Queen Street for the main part of the walk till we get to the Anerin Bevan Statue.

-Turning Left onto Working Street, and continuing on down the Hayes.

-At the end of the Hayes, we continue onto Mill Lane till we get to the bottom.

-Turning Right onto St Mary’s Street we shuffle north up to the castle.

-Turning left, then crossing the Road, into Bute Park at Westgate Street, we walk around the castle,

-Then cross A470 North Road onto Boulevard De Nantes past the government buildings, following it round onto Dumfries Place. Continuing the circuit back onto Newport Road till we’re back at the starting point on City Road at the Ernest Willows Pub.

Total distance: 2.68miles, Total time: 2hours.

5pm – Walk Ends at Ernest Willows – Thank you’s, Talking about the the charities and the benefit gig again.

7pm – Charity Gig starts at the Moon Pub. Womanby Street.

Midnight – Charity gig ends.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z1JmtGy_saJ8.kmyimDbQmCAM

After Party / Charity Gig – Moon Pub, Womanby Street Cardiff;

-£3 suggested donation p/p

-Bar Downstairs, stage with live music, comedy acts, DJ and more.

-Smoking area out front.

-Charity Raffle (Still after donated prizes if you have anything suitable?)

-Vegan Food Bake sale.

-Animal Rights info stall by Cardiff Animal Rights.

The night:
We’ll hopefully be starting the night off with some comedy stand up from local comedy acts.

We’ll have bands:
-ANOISE- Experimental noise who played last year. www.facebook.com/ANOISE
-Dead End Friends- Bluesy Rock www.facebook.com/thedeadendfriends
-Between Waves – “A different take on Metal” www.facebook.com/BetweenWaves
-Nicodemus Reuben – with his unique poetry. www.facebook.com/NicodemusPoetry

And hopefully a couple of other acts too TBC.

ALSO: Upstairs at the Full Moon Club (and at the nearby Clwb Ifor Bach and Fuel Club) there is the Red Sun Metal Festival:
https://www.facebook.com/events/792830844120388/

For more info about the Charity Fund Raising events held this year by Zombie Survival Weekender check out:

http://zombiesw.co.uk/2015/03/30/zsw-2015-charities-and-fundraising-events/

To Donate click here:

http://www.gofundme.com/pwtmik

ZSW 2015 Charities and fundraising events:

Zombie Survival Weekender’s Charity Fundraising 2015:

Since 2011 Zombie Survival Weekender has provided a unique mix of survival training, corporate team-building events and exciting live-action, non-combat horror experiences in South Wales. www.zombiesw.co.uk

Each year we choose a couple of worthy charities to benefit from our fundraising efforts.

This year we have chosen three worthy charities who will each be getting a third of all monies we raise. Our chosen charities this year are:

1- Crisis – The homeless charity:   http://www.crisis.org.uk/

2- CALM – male suicide prevention charity:  https://www.thecalmzone.net/about-calm/what-is-calm/

3- The Blue Cross – Animal Charity:   http://www.bluecross.org.uk/453/what-we-do.html

Our three charities will be getting all the money raised at our three exciting fundraising events:

Cardiff Zombie Walk:

May 2nd is the return of our fun Cardiff Zombie Walk, where people of all ages meet up, dress as zombies and shuffle through the streets of our Capital, scaring the public whilst helping raise money for our worthy causes.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1406706559626546/

Zombie Walk Benefit Gig/Afterparty:

After the walk through town our Zombies will go have something to eat before coming to our afterparty charity gig, which will be held at the Moon Pub, Womanby Street (Just opposite the castle) in central Cardiff, we will have live music acts, raffle, stand up comedians and more.

ZSW Charity Expedition:

Last year a small group of us took on the challenge of walking 154miles from Cardiff Castle to the top of Snowdon Mountain. It took us six gruelling days but what an amazing sense of accomplishment we felt when we made it to the top!

This year we are going the extra mile(s), we’re walking 161miles from Trafalgar Square in central London to Cardiff Castle again over six hard days.

Please donate here to show your support of our expedition and to help our chosen charities.

Any questions please don’t hesitate to ask:

Info@zombiesw.co.uk

To Donate click here: http://www.gofundme.com/pwtmik

Watched our case on Judge Rinder? click here for special promocode:

Thank you all for watching me today on Judge Rinder!

If you missed it you can watch it here:
https://www.itv.com/itvpla…/judge-rinder/series-2/episode-30
Its free to register with ITV iPlayer, if you haven’t already.

Have a look at the website and share with your friends, family and groovy looking strangers, we have five public events this year:
http://zombiesw.co.uk/2015/01/22/2015-calendar-of-events/

Anyone who books this in February using the promo code ‘Rinder’ will get five pounds off the standard ticket price!

Standard tickets cost only £55 for a whole 30+ hours of exciting event, including, parking, camping, survival skills shares, survival kits, inter-team challenges and games, Bonfire and BBQ, onsite pub, and of course the exciting unique live action, non-combat, horror experience.

Any questions please ask: info@zombiesw.co.uk

Don’t forget to like the Facebook Page:www.facebook.com/ZombieSurvivalWeekender

or to join the group which we use as our forum:
www.facebook.com/groups/ZombieSurvivalWeekender/

or follow us on Twitter:
@ZombieSW

On the FB page there is also the like and share competition each month to win a free pair of tickets worth £110…

group discounts available for public events; buy three the fourth is half price, buy five the sixth is free!

Private events available with a minimum of 20 participants, see website for full details and availability.

Zombie Survival Weekender on TV!

We have three features on TV coming up this year!

Today is the first show;

We have our case against the people who ripped of ZSW last year featuring on ITV’s Judge Rinder today:

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Post by Judge Rinder.

You can watch us on ITV today from 2pm or you can watch the show on ITV iPlayer all this month!

https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/judge-rinder

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The next show we are featured in is ‘Da Good Life’ due out sometime in the next few months (Air date still to be confirmed) which follows the story of Abz from the boy band 5ive and his girlfriend, leaving the hectic busy urban conveinent lifestyle behind to live a more natural and rural livign in the welsh countryside.

As part of the show Abz Love and his girlfriend and their film crew attended our Halloween Special last year to take part in learning new skills and having fun avoiding the zombie horde:

I’ll post the airing date here when we know it!

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The third TV show, is most likely not going to be seen by the majority of our potential participants, but its still great that ZSW has gone global:

The Worlds’ Astonishing News Broadcaster: NTV, Japan, national / terrestrial. Weekly show on every Wednesday from 9pm-10pm. Programme Details: “The Worlds’ Astonishing News” is an prime-time informative family show, successfully running over 10 years. The programme introduce astonishing real-life stories and current affairs from all over the world. Estimated viewer of 2.5 millions.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377256/

If I can find a link once its aired then I’ll post it here… It’s mainly covering the article from our best marshalTracys Fall back last September: https://zombiesw.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=922&action=edit

2016 Calendar of Events:

Hi all, Here are the public events booked for 2016, if you would like a private event (min 20 people) please contact us.

Dates:

Free Events:

• Cardiff Zombie Walk will be running again this year on Saturday  11th June meet up at mid day to get yourself made up as a zombie, then talks and a raffle, then the zombie horde shuffles in a circular route through Cardiff city centre scaring the public and making a scene, before returning to the starting point. Then we’ll be having a benefit gig in the evening, details to be confirmed.

• ZSW Charity Expedition – 2014 we walked 154 miles from Cardiff Centre to the top of Mount Snowdon… 2015 we walked from Trafalgar Square in London 161miles to the top of Cardiff Castle… This year we will be walking even further, the exact route is to be confirmed but we are looking at walking over 190miles from Dublin to Belfast to Edinburgh… Keep an eye on the Facebook for updates on this epic expedition. The trek is penciled in for the 2-9th of June.

Private Events 2016: We have weekends available between April and October for your event! Weekends available for private functions; Corporate Team-Building events, Staff incentive/reward, Birthdays, Stag and Hen parties, etc. Minimum 20 persons for private events, all aspects of the experience are able to be tailored to meet your needs. For more information please see Private Events

For a quote or to book a private event please contact: info@zombiesw.co.uk

Location: Number of locations in South Wales including Isolated Islands, Old Artillery Bunkers, Sand Dunes, and Woodlands , the majority of our events are held at our Headquarters in Eglwysilan (CF83 4JG) just 10 miles north of Cardiff.

If you would like to have an event at your site this can be arranged depending on site suitability, H&S checks, numbers, insurance, access etc. please contact us to discuss your ideas.

Tickets:From £55p/p Discount for groups. http://zombiesw.co.uk/homepage/prices-and-discounts/

New job opportunity with ZSW:

Setbacks throughout 2014 put a huge dent in our marketing and promotions strategy, we are now looking for a Marketing and Sales Manager to join our team to begin immediately for a part time position throughout 2015.

Marketing and Sales Manager (P/T):

Duties to include:

-Learning the ins and outs of the company, events and promotion specifically with a view to sell private corporate event packages and upsell bookings for public events.

-Utilising and developing your personal business contacts to generate sales, this personal networking development can be taken with you beyond this business to further your career in all fields.

-Contacting companies; finding appropriate contacts and being the first point of contact, through template emails, structured phone calls and using your own initiative, arranging pitch meetings for management.

-Marketing promotion through social media; Facebook, Twitter, Linkdin, Instagram, etc.

-Face-to-Face promotion, finding and attending suitable events to canvas the companies private and public events, collecting email addresses of potential clients and customers and handing out promotional material generating and making sales in person.

-Maintaining and developing the promotion database, following the established structure to build the database to then follow the set out marketing strategy throughout 2015.

-Attending pitch meetings, taking notes, inputting ideas and promoting the company image and brand at all levels.

-Management of calendars for meetings, events, bookings, and sales (deposits and balance payments)

Ideal candidate will:

-Be confident, polite and friendly.

-Focused, driven and enthusiastic,

-Have excellent communication skills.

-Have the ability to work using own initiative.

-A history of sales and marketing experience preferable, though not essential.

-Ideally have own phone, car and computer, though not essential.

Hours:

Hours are to suit you, you can do the majority of the job working from home in your own time, around a regular full time job, or; if you put the work in, there is the earning potential to use this position as your sole income.

Salary:

The six week probationary period is commission only, candidate earning £6.50 per ticket sold, ..so if the candidate sells one ticket an hour they will be earning minimum wage.

The salary upon completion of the probationary period is as much as; £12,000-£17,000 pro-rata depending on performance and meeting targets.

To apply for this position please email: info@zombiesw.co.uk with a CV and covering letter explaining why you would make the ideal candidate for this role. .