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Volunteering Opportunities
No matter what your interests or skills we have something for you!
Current Opportunities
Conservation Trainees - Buckinghamshire
Based at our Buckinghamshire office, the Conservation Trainee team provides real opportunities for trainees to develop wildlife management skills. New recruits will join an established team delivering an extensive and varied programme of work from survey and monitoring to major felling works and fencing. Recruits will gain practical experience with a Wildlife Trust that manages more than 80 nature reserves across three counties. On completion of their term many previous trainees have gone on to successful careers in the environmental sector.
If you are interested in applying, please download an application form and role description and return to recruitment@bbowt.org.uk.
Closing date: 9am Monday 6th September 2010
Interview Date: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Role Description (pdf)
Application Form (Word)
Wildlife Information Service Volunteers
Can you answer our wildlife questions?
Why do badgers sometimes dig up the garden? How many species of bats are there in the UK? If you can answer these questions or know where to find the answer to these questions then the Wildlife Information Service needs you! The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trusts (BBOWT) Wildlife Information Service receives hundreds of enquiries from the public each year and now wants to build a team of local volunteers to help provide advice and information on wildlife issues. You don't have to be a wildlife expert as the role is ideally suited to someone who enjoys research and wants to expand their wildlife knowledge and who has bags of energy to get around our busy 3 floor Oxford office. You will need to commit to a regular slot of a few hours each week and must be able to travel to BBOWTs office in Littlemore, Oxford. The Wildlife Information Service is on the ground floor. If you can help, please contact us on 01865 775476 or email: wildinfo@bbowt.org.uk for more details.
Stockwatchers
Location: Hartslock reserve, nr Reading
Hours: Flexible, once or twice a week
Stockwatchers play a vital role in monitoring our livestock on our reserves where they are grazing. We are looking for some extra help at Hartslock, mainly weekend cover but for occassional days during the week too.
If you can help us, we'd love to hear from you. Take a look at the role description below and get in touch if you think this might be for you.
For more information, contact us on 01865 775476 or volunteering@bbowt.org.uk
College Lake volunteering opportunities
We've built and opened a brand new Visitor Centre at College Lake, our flagship BBOWT reserve in north east Bucks, near Tring.
Whether you're after something purely practical or prefer engaging with people, we're pretty sure we'll have something for you. So....
Cafe volunteer
Providing refreshments to our visitors is a big part of making their outing to this exciting reserve an enjoyable experience. If you are a cheerful, friendly person with an interest in making sure our visitors are comfortably fed and watered, we'd love to hear from you!
We will also be expanding this team from April onwards, once our new Visitors Centre is open. We anticipate far larger numbers of people - and a greater diversity of food and drink on offer!
Reserve Warden
If you'd like to use your skills with people but in the context of the wider reserve, we are also looking for a team of voluntary Reserve Wardens who will be on duty across the site talking to members of the public about the reserve, developments there and BBOWT generally. For more information call Nancy Reed, Reserve Warden, on 01442 826774 or email nancyreed@bbowt.org.uk
Buckinghamshire
New opportunities - register your interest now!
Field Team
We're going to be looking for a small team of experienced, competetent and confident individuals who have some spare time and a real passion for conservation. Your role is a little more specialist and once you've had some BBOWT training we'd like you to undertake conservation tasks twice a week on reserves across Buckinghamshire. If you're interested, contact us on 01865 775476 or volunteering@bbowt.org.uk
Mid-week Team
A brand new team! We need willing helpers to assist our weekly programme of conservation management on reserves across Buckinghamshire. Leaving from College Lake, we take out a team once a week to undertake practical tasks across the region. No previous experience needed, just plenty of enthusiasm. If you're interested, contact us on 01865 775476 or volunteering@bbowt.org.uk
Other roles
Wildlife gardeners, Warburg Nature Reserve
Do you like digging, planting, creating or growing?
We're looking for a team of enthusiastic gardeners to help us develop and care for the wildlife garden at our beautiful Warburg Nature Reserve.
You'll be helping to create a garden in a way that is attractive for both wildlife and people and undertake a wide range of practical gardening tasks. It's a great opportunity to enjoy being outside, meet new people and help wildlife at the same time.
No experience is needed, just bags of enthusiasm and an interest in gardening.
Wildlife Gardeners, College Lake Nature Reserve
Location: Nr Tring, Bucks
Contact volunteering@bbowt.org.uk or tel. 01865 775476 for more information.
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