Volunteer Opportunities

We are looking for practical conservation volunteers to help us deliver the habitat management work required on our reserves in the west of the county. Our reserves require management in order to halt or reverse successional processes. Left unmanaged, our grasslands and heathlands would revert to woodland and we would lose the wildlife which favours the aforementioned habitats. Even our woodlands require management to create and maintain structural diversity and encourage a broad range of species. 

Tasks involve:

Our work is responsive, but there are seasonal trends, such as woodland, hedgerow and scrub work in winter, fencing and infrastructure repairs in the bird breeding season, invasive species work in the heat of the summer and mowing and raking in August and September. 

Skills required:

No experience is required, as we provide training. Anybody and everybody is welcome. As long as a person is reasonably fit and enjoys being outside in all weathers.

Hours required:

Volunteering workdays take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and one Sunday a month, across any of our reserves in the West. If you apply to be a volunteer, you will receive an email every Friday outlining the tasks and locations for the following week and you can sign up for any of these.

Each working party is around 5 hours long (usually 9.30/9.45-2.30/2.35 weekdays and 10-2/3 on Sundays)

Location:

“Western” reserves

Regular work party days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and one Sunday a month

Reserve Officers: Andy Neilson, Sophia Attwood-Clarke, & Chris Hill

• Altar Stones
• Charley Woods
• Charnwood Lodge
• Cloud Wood
• Cossington Meadows
• Croft Pasture
• Dimminsdale
• Fox Wood
• Kelham Bridge
• Lea Meadows
• Lucas Marsh
• Miles Piece
• Mountsorrel and Rothley Marshes
• Narborough Bog
• Rocky Plantation
• Syston Lakes
• Tilton Cutting
• Tom Longs Meadow
• Ulverscroft
• Wanlip Meadows
• Wymeswold Meadows

We are looking for practical conservation volunteers to help us deliver the habitat management work required on our reserves in the east of the county. 

Please note that due to the nature and location of our reserves, there are no facilities on site. 

Tasks involved:

• Woodland and scrub work in the winter
• Fencing and infrastructure work in the bird breeding season
• Mowing and raking in July, August and September

Skills required:

No experience is required, as we provide training. Please be aware that we work outdoors no matter the weather and the work we do is quite physically demanding.  

Hours required:

Volunteering workdays take place on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. If you apply to be a volunteer, you will receive an email every Tuesday outlining the tasks and locations for the upcoming work parties and you can sign up for any of these. Each working party is around 5 hours long (usually 9.30/10-2/2.30)

Location: 

Any of the following reserves:

• Bloody Oak Quarry
• Coombs Meadow
• Cribb’s Meadow
• Great Merrible Wood
• Holwell Reserves
• Ketton Quarry
• Launde Big Wood
• Launde Park Wood
• Lyddington Meadow
• Merry’s Meadow
• Prior’s Coppice
• Stonesby Quarry
• Wymondham Rough