Other Volunteering Opportunities

Other opportunities

There are lots of different ways you can volunteer with Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. 

Helping in the office

We have opportunities to volunteer in our central office in Leicester or at our office base at Rutland Water to support us in areas of work including membership, fundraising, marketing, finance and HR. Please email info@lrwt.org.uk if you are interested.

Surveys and monitoring

The Wider Countryside team are looking for volunteers to help with butterfly surveys between April and September. This will involve joining a group of volunteers to go out on sunny days looking for butterflies. We are looking for volunteers to join surveys near to Newtown Linford and also Fosse Meadows. The surveys usually take between one and two hours (depending on the number of butterflies) and take place once a week. We wouldn’t expect someone to carry out surveys every week, but ask that if you do offer to help, that you carry out at least 3 surveys during the survey season. Full training is given, however these surveys are volunteer-led and each survey is arranged by the volunteers to fit in with suitable weather conditions. If you would like to find out more, please email info@lrwt.org.uk.

Volunteering with the Rutland Osprey Project 

If you would like to get involved with the Rutland Osprey Project, there are a number of opportunities available including monitoring nests, supporting visitors in the hides and helping out at the Visitor Centre. To find out more please email volunteering@lrwt.org.uk

Birdfair

This year's Birdfair will be taking place on 21st-23rd August 2020, if you would like to volunteer, there are a range of opportunities available, please email  volunteering@lrwt.org.uk for more information. 

Birdfair Volunteers

Birdfair 2018 - Eric Renno

Duke of Edinburgh Awards

There are opportunities at Rutland Water Nature Reserve to undertake activities that will help towards achieving an Award.

Work Experience

We have a limited number of school work experience placements available each year based at Rutland Water Nature Reserve and from our office in Leicester.

Please email volunteering@lrwt.org.uk for more information on Duke of Edinburgh or work experience. 

 

Corporate volunteering at Rutland Water

We can cater for groups of all shapes and sizes through our Volunteer Training Centre, offering the perfect base for your meeting, away day or team-building activity. 

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A volunteer of the Wildlife Trust gathers cut vegetation for disposal, helping to keep the footpaths open for the use by the many tourists, Bryher, Isles of Scilly, June - Ed Marshall