Volunteer Orgs who have an expectation that their young professional outdoor facilitators and guides, who are also part of their Org, are able to dedicate large amounts of their free time to underpin the Org's outdoor programs also need to take this reality into account with their resource planning.

❝ To sustain a long career in the adventure industry you need to be able to make enough and save enough to survive over the long term. This may mean picking up extra jobs, ... ❞

(There is also a direct correlation with Outdoor Industry job positions not advertising pay scales, and award levels in job advertisements, but that's a whole other discussion.)

❝ far from financially lucrative ❞ - this is especially true for the entry level career positions generally filled with new Cert III & Cert IV graduates. Outdoor facilitation & guiding is definitely an industry that is supported via financial security made from other career areas.

This ties into the findings in the Outdoors NSW & ACT "The Outdoors, By the Numbers" (2025-Aug) data compiled from the 2024 & 2025 Outdoor Census.
outdoors.kartra.com/page/census2...

❝ It can be costly to get certifications and experience in both time and money. It can be physically demanding. It can also be far from financially lucrative. For all of these reasons many people drop out early in their career. ❞
-- Delivering Adventure S3.E12: Longevity & Delivering

It does have Wilson Hall (1956) as an on campus ceremonial hall, this replaced the original Wilson Hall (1882) which was destroyed by a fire in 1952.