The Wildlife Trust
For Lancashire, Manchester
and North Merseyside
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Selling the same old package? Let your imagination fly with the UK’s first floating venue
Would you like the chance to be part of a team at this unique venue? Are you bursting with enthusiasm? We are looking for a highly motivated, target driven individual to build on our growing conference and special events business. With its unique floating design and location in the heart of a nature reserve, on the edge of the M6 motorway, we have the right offer… Are you the right person to sell it?
Be part of a two phase project whose aim is to survey ponds within Preston Fylde and Wyre to record what plant species are there and what decline in pond numbers there has been since the 1940’s. Later in the year ponds will be revisited to harvest, propagate and establish plants in suitable existing and created habitats
The Membership Department of Lancashire Wildlife Trust is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to promote membership to visitor at our award winning Brockholes reserve. This role would involve volunteering at our Brockholes Nature Reserves promoting the Trusts work and encouraging people to join as members who pay a membership subscription.
Our Activize Your Lives Project based at the Environmental Resource Centre (ERC) in Breightmet, Bolton aims to develop the Centre as a place where individuals, families and community groups can visit to gain new skills/training, have fun, meet new people and take ownership of their local community. The project needs volunteers who are enthusiastic, committed and have a genuine passion for helping others to help empower local people to improve their quality of life, and to get involved with projects and activities at the Centre.
Our food growing volunteers can become involved in a number of tasks, at a variety of locations across the region. The work could involve being part of a team maintaining an established food growing garden, or using your knowledge and experience to help develop new gardens and train new food growers.
The Croall Irwell Local Group are looking for a volunteer who would be able to give up an evening a fortnight to act as Programme Secretary, meeting up with the rest of the group and helping to plan and organise the talks and field trips for each year and to write up the programme using IT skills.
Find out more information here.
To express an interest in this role please click here to complete the volunteer registration form and mention the role title on the 'interest' page. If you are already registered please contact the Volunteering Support Officer on 01772 318374 or e-mail volunteer@lancswt.org.uk
The North Lancashire Naturalists Local Group are looking for a volunteer who would be able to give up an evening a fortnight to act as Programme Secretary, meeting up with the rest of the group and helping to plan and organise the talks and field trips for each year and to write up the programme using IT skills.
Find out more information here.
To express an interest in this role please click here to complete the volunteer registration form and mention the role title on the 'interest' page. If you are already registered please contact the Volunteering Support Officer on 01772 318374 or e-mail volunteer@lancswt.org.uk
Our Community Education Volunteers will help Morecambe Bay’s ‘A Wealth of Wildlife’ Project to prepare and deliver events around Morecambe Bay to raise awareness of wildlife in the area. Volunteers can help prepare education materials or take bookings, plan events or send mailouts – or all of them!
To express an interest in this role please click here to complete the volunteer registration form and mention the role title on the 'interest' page. If you are already registered please contact the Volunteering Support Officer on 01772 318374 or e-mail volunteer@lancswt.org.uk
Each of our Cattle Checkers visit either Lightshaw Meadows or Three Sisters Reserve once a week for between 30 minutes and an hour, to check the health and welfare of the cattle grazing that site.
Our Red Squirrel project based at Seaforth Nature Reserve, Liverpool requires a volunteer with excellent communication skills to help organise and attend events to increase the profile of the project.Â
IMPACT Volunteers take part in practical hands-on volunteering, doing a mixture of practical outdoor conservation work and green woodwork, both in our workshop and outdoors. Volunteers must be between the ages of 16 and 25 years.
To express an interest in this role please click here to complete the volunteer registration form and mention the role title on the 'interest' page. If you are already registered please contact the Volunteering Support Officer on 01772 318374 or e-mail volunteer@lancswt.org.uk
Find out more about volunteering opportunities at Brockholes here.
Details of any vacancies are also available on environmentjob.co.uk
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