Volunteer Opportunities
Join our volunteer team
There are lots of different ways you can get involved with volunteering. Whether you can spare a few hours or a full day, volunteering is a chance to make a real difference to local wildlife whilst learning new skills, making new friends and increasing your knowledge of wildlife conservation or education. The time you give makes a huge difference.
Please see below for details of current volunteering opportunities. Our opportunities change regularly, so please check back again if you cannot find a location or role that you are looking for.
If you can't find the right volunteering role for you, we would still be interested in speaking to you about other ways that you may be able to support us. For example, you may wish to become a wildlife ambassador for your local community or you may have an idea for fundraising. However you would like to get involved, we would love to hear from you! Please email volunteering@lrwt.org.uk
Current Volunteer Opportunities
Reserve Management Volunteer– Rutland Water Nature Reserve - Tuesdays or Thursdays
We are looking for practical conservation volunteers to help us deliver the habitat management work required at Rutland Water Nature Reserve.
Rutland Water is an internationally important wetland site, and is home to a wide variety of habitats including woodland, reedbed, scrub, and ponds to name a few. A regular programme of management work is required to ensure that these habitats remain productive and biodiverse.
What’s involved:
We typically follow a seasonal trend with our work programme, focusing mostly on coppicing and scrub management in the winter and infrastructure repairs during the bird breeding season. However, there are a number of other tasks ranging from hibernacula creation to invasive species management throughout the year.
Hours:
We are looking for more volunteers to help us on Tuesdays or Thursdays, from 9am to 3pm.
Skills required:
No experience is required, as we provide training. Anybody and everybody is welcome. As long as you are reasonably fit and enjoy being outside in all weathers.
Location:
Rutland Water Nature Reserve, Oakham, Rutland
Other Information:
Please note there is a limited number of positions available so the role will be closed when capacity has been reached.
How to sign up
Once you have found the perfect role for you, please either fill out the online form, or download the application form and email it to volunteering@lrwt.org.uk . We will then guide you through the next stages of signing up as a volunteer.
We are currently unable to accept anyone under the age of 18 as a volunteer, you may wish to look at getting involved with our work in other ways https://www.lrwt.org.uk/get-involved
If you are are having issues with applying or need support, please get in touch with our volunteer coordinator on volunteering@lrwt.org.uk or 01572 737378
Join a Local Group
One of our greatest strengths is our network of Local Groups, who represent us and the wildlife of Leicestershire and Rutland in their local community. If you are interested in joining a group in your area or interested in starting up your own group in another area, please get in touch at volunteering@lrwt.org.uk
